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If you had to start your homelab from scratch... (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by diffraa@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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For reasons unexplained, you have no homelab hardware, but $1,000 in cash earmarked for the purpose.

What are you buying, what are you installing on it, and how is it different from what you've done previously (i.e. lessons learned)?

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[–] spicyhotbean@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

https://www.servethehome.com/introducing-project-tinyminimicro-home-lab-revolution/ Small foot print, low wattage, modern CPU can run anything I can try and throw at it just get a lot of ram. Id run Ubuntu or Debian all apps go in docker containers, maybe install cockpit if I wanted web gui. And run vms if I want via KVM https://ubuntu.com/blog/kvm-hyphervisor If you want to go nas Plex rute you can add a hd via 10g usb Great level1techs video about mini PC home server https://youtu.be/GmQdlLCw-5k?si=VrdfDRfmpNHCZz-H

[–] JackalopeJumpRope@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Everyone here recommending tinylabs, but what if you need lots of TB's? Is there a solution then? I have a Microserver Gen 8 (which is plenty powerful enough) but need way more space, and was going to buy something that can fit 10+ Hard drives...

[–] vasveritas@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

There's lots of solutions.

Cheap:

But a full tower PC case with room for 10+ HDDs. Lot of options like those from Fractal, CoolerMaster, etc.

Enterprise (expensive):

Buy a JBOD with a backplane that you plug all your discs into then plug that into a server.

[–] sir_dancealot@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

can you make ZFS pools across devices with Proxmox? Otherwise idk what you do for storage redundancy or RAID unless you run like longhorn or ceph or something across the cluster - all those machines have a single drive