Rate my one year old homelab.

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• Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Some drives are worse than others, in my experience, Seagate drives are extremely loud.

    If you get helium drives (like wd red plus > 8TB i think),or 2nd hand hgst/ WD enterprise drives) they are significantly quieter.

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• nesc@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Nice, 8/10. Don’t buy bambu lab, they will suck you soul.

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  • Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m waiting for one of those right now as well!

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  • Bluefruit@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • nesc@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I have bambu printer they are good, but my printer stopped printing until I’ve allowed it to phone home for a bit, this repeated twice already.

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• loomy@lemy.lol ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  11 out of 10

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• Damage@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  All homelabs are 5 star

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• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A+

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• rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Just needs a 10" cardboard box with proper holes

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  • matdave@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Does she have a sister?

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  • SilentKnightOwl@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Don’t get too carried away, it’s just a homelab

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    • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      but, think of it… RACING STRIPES!!! or FLAMES!!!

      You use bamboo skewers to mount the things off the bottom and dampen vibration. mabey use an internal flap and bent the disks out the front and the PSU out the back. If you have enough cardboard, you could even bend it a bit and do like a jet engine with the fan sticking out the front.

      cardboard papercraft homelab… I almost want to get rid of my 42 U rand and make a voltron now.

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• bigboitricky@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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• HelloRoot@lemy.lol ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  10/10 best value

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• AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  a proper hobbyist setup, well done!

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• avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s great but that fan is an overkill. 😂

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  • Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing!

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• sundray@lemmus.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Function over form, I love it!

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• chug-capture-ahoy@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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• Part4@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ll build my own cooling and temperature monitoring system

  I bunged mine in the fridge, just drill a hole out of the side for the cables then use rubber sealant.

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• bluesheep@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  10/10 What’s the black pcb on top of the odroid?

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  • Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thanks!!

    It's a 10 Euro fan controller, that I'm temporarily using till I can build my own with ESP32
    fancontroller

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    • bluesheep@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Aaah, that explains the potmeter. Thanks!

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• dis_honestfamiliar@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • Pilferjinx@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ooo. That hdd solution looks like a mic shock mount. That’s brilliant.

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  • toketin@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hi, which is the name of this kind of cases? I’m looking a similar way in order to add an external HDD on my local server which is a Lenovo Thinkcentre SFF, so with 3 disks of space (1 hdd 3.5" + 1 2.5" + 1 nvme). Thanks!

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    • Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The key search words in your (Chinese?) store of choice I wound suggest:

      3.5" to 5.25" Internal Hard Disk Mount Rubber

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  • Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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• justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Nice setup. I also started with a mini PC but couldn’t find a reasonable way to add drives, how are yours attached? In general I would love to find some reasonable prices DAS/JBOD options

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  • Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thanks.
    ODROID allows 4 drives with sata, it's a really nice solution.

    You could attach even more with using nvme

    https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-h4-plus/

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    • justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Damn. I was looking for agrees for someone like that, now I’m stuck with a microATC board that is great but doesn’t fit in a 10" rack, why are there no 12" racks? ^^

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• tiramichu@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Lol, brilliant.

  At first you are thinking “this is going to be so nice and compact and tidy” and then…

  Love it though

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