What did you all waste money on for your homelabs this holiday discount season? I snagged a rosewill 4u case for $80 on Newegg. Currently my NAS is a guest in a ryzen based proxmox host in a silverstone case with a ton of 3.5 bays. Gonna move an older supermicro server mobo into that silverstone case and make it a dedicated bare metal NAS that I’ll probably only run a few hours a month, and then build a “new” game/vm server with the ryzen parts in the rosewill case. 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 😂
What projects did y’all find for yourselves?
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.
That’s a lot of Linux ISOs.
Why not just buy some bigger drives instead of so many? Are you really going to populate with 48x 3-4TB drives?
That’s an inefficient use of electricity, heat and money.
I read somewhere about larger drives not being well suited for zfs pools, because of the amount of maintenance activity on that storage scheme it takes longer to do on larger drives, and they take a lot longer to replace/resilver if a drive needs to be replaced.
I’m still going with 18tb drives in my zfs pool though 🤷🏻♂️