If you had to start your homelab from scratch... - eviltoast

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)?

  • JackalopeJumpRope@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    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…

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      1 year 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.