Homelab

Upgraded the router that firewalls all of my stuff from the other adults in the house, and the replaced router (gl.inet Mango) is now free for various shenanigans.

Bought a pack of 8266 boards with various led and breadboard accessories to play with, and an air quality sensor that will hopefully end up sending data over the home automation vlan.

Spent enough on cloud storage to get the '3' of my 1-2-3 backups done for all of my photos and videos, not automated yet but that is on the list, plus picked up a few very inexpensive usb storage drives for friends.

Also bought a heart rate sensor for cardio training, and keep thinking of ways to sniff data off of it for analysis, though that's probably not the greatest idea...

28x 18TB HDDs from Server Part Deals for my backup NAS. Going to put them in 3x 9-drive Z2 vdevs with 1 hot spare. When they go on sale again, I'll probably snag another 20 to fill my array.

Grabbed me some Zigbee sensors, going to try and roll my own alarm system using Alarmo in Home Assistant. Having some trouble making HA externally accessible with NGINX and Let’s Encrypt but think I am on the right track.

Picked up a pair of hdmi of Ethernet extenders from mono price. Not entirely sure what I’m going to do with them but I’m thinking trying to pipe the security feeds up to my main tv on an unused input.

Hah, I got the same one as you. Got both a 2U and 4U.

Got myself NVME SSD read cache for my DS918+. Hoping to improve speed when browsing media libraries in apps like Jellyfin.

I got 2x1000v/800w USPs for $145.

Some light strips to put in TM server rack for $9

A 24port patch panel and keystone Jacks for $35

A keyboard drawer for $50

And a rack mounted Fan for $100.

My 2024 New Years resolution is to make my server rack not look like a piece of shit.

That way I can run my more demanding stuff without also having to power a bunch of spinning rust all the time. Yes the ~70 watts for 24/7 HDD’s nags at me that much; don’t try to tell me how long it will take me to make my $80 back 😂

Aren't drive hibernating if you don't use them?

Anyway At worse it's 20$ per month if you pay .38 kW/h. 😅

Oh boy here we go for me :

• 8x ESP32
• 50 feet of LED
• a crate of electrical hardware to power up everything.
• a mini EliteDesk to replace my RetroPi with something with a bit more power.
• I have to Install that dual 10gb card in my server.
• I still have to finish my Watercooled GPU with an disconnect-able external radiator in his own case (I think I need another D5 pump.. Damnit and more piping..)

I won't talk about everything else I need to do haha.

Didn't get anything for the homelab, didn't see anything I needed/wanted that I'd consider a good deal :(

Did get a weather station though (Ecowitt Wittboy), which I suppose is partly running ON the homelab, lol. So I suppose maybe that.

5 x 1TiB nvme drives and USBC enclosures for a pi cluster.

I’ve been running proxmox on a repurposed HP thin client with separate vms for TrueNAS, Jellyfin and an arr suite. It’s been running great but I’ve run out of storage space and every time I try to jury rig a serious expansion I run into more issues and no time to solve them. So, I’ve been planning on building a new home server to take over the HPs duties and offer more headroom for new projects to play around with. I spent the weekend adding and removing various parts from my shopping cart. I went from 12th gen intel to 5000 series Ryzen to upgrading my gaming rig and relegating its parts to server duty. Ultimately, I threw all the roll my own plans out the window and bought a commercial produced NAS.

It was between a Asustor Nimbustor 2 at regular pricing and a Terramaster T6-423 at cyber Monday pricing. I decided to give the T6 a try. Primary concerns were software deficiencies, which can be mitigated by running an alternative OS. So current plan is to get the NAS up and running with TrueNAS Scale and maybe offload Jellyfin or arr suite to the NAS. Now I just need time to run over to microcenter and pick up the ram and os drive.

I only lost $100 last weekend. I realized recently that the NVMe that I thought was in my server was actually a 2.5” SSD. Not sure how I forgot about that…. Then I upped my Ram from 16 to 32 (maxed out) to allow room for additional VMs.

I got an open rack and some accessories 😆😆

Posted a lot of deals on r/hwdeals

Bought the Ryzen 5600U MomentPlus but it hasn't arrived yet unfortunately :(

Bought 18 TB Storage from Best Buy, which was great but I'm not even utilizing 2% of the storage at the moment.

1.5TB Optane SSD. Now I get to figure out U.2 & how to mount it in my case that has-5 drive mounts currently free.

Really shitty deals around me this black friday, did get 60cm pcie x4 extenders for cheap and a pdu, but most for me is used hardware and that is cheap any day of the year

Testing a low energy built with Fujitsu MB, 64gb ram, gen 7 iCPU

I bought 2x20TB exos drives to put in my unraid array, one to take over parity. I also bought 3x2TB nvme drives, 2 of which will go in that same unraid machine to serve as cache drives for my appdata and fast storage for downloading/transferring files.

All of this started with me getting a mikrotik CRS312 10Gig switch :)

i bought two disk shelves, 48 drive capacity between them, gonna be a expensive to populate but all told it should net me about 160TB raw capacity.