Have you ever committed mistakes while setting up your homelab? - eviltoast

I will start first

  • I didn’t notice my diy NAS motherboard had Pci-E Gen 2.0 (old gen) before buying it. It’s not a great limitation (still 500MB/s) for the two spinning disks I have on it, but it’d be if I will decide to switch to SSDs
  • I cheaped out on the PSU. I bought another one without waiting for that crap to burn down so I eventually spent more
  • I often break the software. Sometimes I kill the OS or mess with some BTRFS pools

Sometimes I just feel not adequate for it. Does this kind of things happen to you too?

  • poVoq@slrpnk.net
    3·
    2 months ago

    Cheaped out on UPS, now I have three basic small ones I have no use for (they work except the battery isn’t good anymore). Would have been better spend a bit more right from the start.

      • poVoq@slrpnk.net
        2·
        2 months ago

        I ended up with a second hand APC 1500. Contrary to some other models you can just monitor it with a standard USB cable, just the power cables with these inverted plugs are a bit hard to get these days.