Rate my one year old homelab.

Submitted ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

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How it started: mp80
I bought a MiniPC (Blackview MP-80) to run Home Assistant and some lights etc. to go with it.

It's now exactly one year later this is what my setup looks like now:
BMAX B2 Pro --> Home Assistant OS
Blackview MP-80 --> Proxmox --> Nextcloud-AIO & Immich
ODROID H4+ --> Proxmox --> TrueNAS

How it's going: odroid
With the heatwave in Europe I've now installed cooling to keep my HDD's from heating up.

I know it's very Janky but I love it, the plan going forward is to buy a 3D Printer so that I can 3D Print a custom 10" rack, and I'll build my own cooling and temperature monitoring system with ESP32 and create a dashboard for it in Home Assistant and sorting out networking.

It's a work in progress, having a lot of fun learning and adding new things.

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bluesheep@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
10/10 What’s the black pcb on top of the odroid?

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Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
A lesson I learnt along the way:

HDD's on your desk are loud AF when you're constantly writing to a database
Solution: Everything except backups and Media run on SSD's

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- Ptsf@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Depends on the drive too, I have some insanely loud Ironwolf drives and you would never guess they’re from the same manufacturer as my practically silent Exos X18s.
  
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  - Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    The other HDD I have is a WD Gold, it's definitely the louder of the two, both of them are ~5 years old.
    Now that I moved the databases off of them, they are quieter than my work laptop, so they don't bug me.
    
    But oh boy, it really did sound like a train yard at one point.
    
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avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
It’s great but that fan is an overkill. 😂

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- Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Very much so, but I do enjoy gross overkill.
  
  I'll build them into a future case then they won't be as overkill
  
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  - oranki@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
    If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing!
    
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loomy@lemy.lol ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
11 out of 10

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bigboitricky@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I adore every piece of this

My OG system had the whole side panel on the case ripped out where I stuck a fan because the CPU fan died, that was over a decade ago I love your setup <3

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nesc@lemmy.cafe ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Nice, 8/10. Don’t buy bambu lab, they will suck you soul.

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- Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Thanks <3
  
  I'm going to go with the Sovol SV06 Plus ACE , I'm a big advocate for Open Source, so anything that requires proprietary software isn't really a option for me.
  
  I live in a tiny apartment, so my biggest hurdle with getting a 3D printer right now is space.
  
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  - nesc@lemmy.cafe ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I’m waiting for one of those right now as well!
    
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- Bluefruit@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Yea not super thrilled with bambu lab for the privacy concerns but the printer itself is good. I just use it in lan only mode and block any outgoing network traffic on my router.
  
  But there are other brands that are good. Ive heard prusa is nice but never tried them.
  
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chug-capture-ahoy@piefed.social ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I think u friki and i like u a lot. Hehehhe you should see mine, is all made of old repurposed garbage

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Damage@feddit.it ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
All homelabs are 5 star

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HelloRoot@lemy.lol ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
10/10 best value

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sundray@lemmus.org ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Function over form, I love it!

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dis_honestfamiliar@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
That’s beautiful but I don’t understand why two pair of cables go into the fan (is that a PSU?) and only one yellow wire comes out. Also where the motherboard. Need answer

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- SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  The black box is the mini PC (note the Ethernet cable going into it) and the yellow/red/black cable is a single SATA power cable, that is daisy chained. Going from the PC to the drive and then going back to the fan control board
  
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  - Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    It's 3 SATA power cables yes, plugged into the H4+
    https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-h4-plus/
    
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  - dis_honestfamiliar@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    And is that an Ethernet cable going into what looks like PSU? (I found the Ethernet cable you mentioned)
    
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Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Yeah, it’s fine … wait, IronWolves in a living space? Paired with that acoustic desk it must be like a train yard, but with more vibrations :D.

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- Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  The one is a Iron Wolf, the other is a WD Gold, both of which are ~5 years old, they were LOUD when I had a database running on them. They are now a lot quieter than my work laptop so they don't bug me anymore.
  
  Thanks for the advice, I really like these solutions I'll definitely look into them
  
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- Pilferjinx@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Ooo. That hdd solution looks like a mic shock mount. That’s brilliant.
  
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