After 2 years of my servers just sitting on cheap plastic shelves because I couldn't find a rack at a reasonable price, I got this rack which was originally intended for stage audio equipment for 100$ CAD on marketplace. This thing is 44U and only needed a minor conversion to 19" and some DIY to avoid paying for expensive railing.
Top row is the network core (Switches, Proxmox box that handles network traffic, PiHole, OPNSense and my cronicle master server) along with my backup server (for backing up configs): Switches: Dell Powerconnect 2724, for gigabit stuff; Arista 7050SX-64, for 10 gigabits; Some Sodola switch, for 5x2.5G with 1x 10G SFP+ and WoL support.
Proxmox box: Ryzen 5 4500, 32GB RAM, 3x500GB SATA SSD. Fun story about this one, I bought 2x8GB sticks on marketplace for 20 bucks only to realize later that the sticks were actually 2x16GB sold as 2x8GB. Kinda overkill for my usecase but I won't complain.
Backup server: HP Pavilion prebuilt I got for free for helping a grandma upgrade, i5-8400, 8GB RAM, originally had a RX 550 2GB but replaced with 10-gig networking. Added 3x4TB HDDs in RAIDZ1.
Mid rows are for my 3 compute servers: Top (blue fans): i9-12900KF, 128GB RAM, RTX 3060, 51TB total storage (3TB NVMe in 2x500GB + 2x1TB, 48TB mechanical in 15x4TB RAIDZ3 config)
Mid: i7-12700F, 64GB RAM, GTX 1080, 11TB total storage (9x1TB RAIDZ3 HDD + 3x2TB RAIDZ1 HDD + 2x500GB NVMe)
Bottom (not server chassis): Ryzen 7 5700X, 32GB RAM, 8TB total storage (3x1TB SATA SSD + 3x1TB HDD + 3x2TB HDD)
Bottom rows for my 3D Printer.
I use all of this for general storage (nextcloud), game server hosting for me and my friends and hosting a mirror for archlinux among other things.
