EDIT: i had an rpi it died from esd i think
EDIT2: this is also my work machine and i sleep to the sound of the fans
Working hardware is working hardware; form factor doesn't really matter.
My primary DNS server is a rpi.
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I just upgraded my daily driver laptop to a new desktop, so now I'm using the laptop as a home server. Much more powerful than anything else I could afford.
I just have a dell optiplex sitting in the corner running Proxmox. then I can spin up whatever I need.
I had a spare gpu lying around so I didn’t need integrated graphics
Then next thing I knew I had 16tbs of data
My first services were running on an old laptop from 2006/2007 standing on an old leather chair in a corner of a room. The laptop was standing on four old and used skateboard wheels so there was some space between the laptop and the leather.
Mine is my 6th gen i5 gaming PC stuffed into an early 00's tower server chassis. It's got an ebay IT mode HBA hooked up to a bunch of drives I pulled from an old Lefthand node we were recycling.
I guess I'm somewhere in between with a bunch of RasPis xD
If I didn't need a large amount of storage I'd totally do this. As it stands it's hard or prohibitively expensive to get 30TB of storage connected to a laptop with reasonable read/write speeds.
I like my n100 mini and usb drives. A full fat server has little WAF when the selling point is an LLM. The n100 handles all our needs sadly.
A dozen or so LXCs. A dozen or so docker containers. A couple VMs, including a Mint VM to turn my android tablet into a desktop. They were sold as a great little home lab, and that they are.
Then again, it's a year old and I'm only beginning in this hobby.
I have 2 old dell prebuilt boxes of shit things stacked on top of eachother. I do need some recommendations for storage as I currently just have everything on a single ssd.
Get a few scrap hdds and fit them in or idk wire the sata cables out of the case?
Then create a raid 0+1 configuration and you now have a couple tb of redundant storage.
Bonus points if you can get even more hdds (use usb adapters maybe?)
I can probably 3d print something to hold the hdd's and get a cheap pcie sata card. If u got any recommendations for where to get some cheap drives lmk.
All my gear is stuff I've saved from the dumpster at work except my hard drives and my UPS. I'm using the IKEA end tables instead of racks (I think they are called lakka?). My jbod chassis is huge and very loud, but it was free. I dropped cables into my basement and I only hear it when I'm down there.
I started off with just a desktop tower full of spare parts, but over time it's slowly become a pretty impressive stack.
I just got a Nas with 4hdd and 4 nvme. That's pretty solid for my current needs. Scale your hardware to your needs. I won't be maxing out my setup maybe ever. I'll just update to newer hardware every 5 or 6 years and call it good.
What's with it is probably "I'm doing this because I love hardware."
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I'm currently using a ryzen 5600u mini-pc, which is more than enough for what I do. Although it'd be cool to have something more server-like. The thing is: those notebook cpus are very efficient and low energy consumption is a priority for me.
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I went overkill because i had money, no hardware i could dedicate and wanted flexibility for my volatile interests. So overkill (except storage until i upgrade) that i plan sharing it with my family (when i set it up properly) I could have made a less overkill choice but that way i probably wont need to change my setup for some game