Hi all,
A while ago i posted this: https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/s/d62ySX7jUd Which is my build a 10 inch rack that uses plywood and audio-equipment rails. Its been a while and its time for an update for what actually is in it.
This rack is stashed under my desk upstairs and looking nice and woody also its quite quiet. Atm i stuffed in: - QNAP-569L (NAS & ISCI for Proxmox) that fits like a glove with 5*4TB of drives in it.
Dell 7010 MFF with an i5-13500T with 32gb ram and 2tb nvme. Which is connected to a E-GPU with 1660 super via minilabs DEG1 oculink. It acts as my main pc for gaming via Steam and emulating halo2 with xboxlive via insigina on XEMU and home labbing).
Dell optiplex 3060 MFF 16gb ram (proxmox hosing HA, Jellyfin)
Cisco SG 200-08 (switch)
unifi nanoHD (accespoint)
This setup uses old hardware i purchased years ago, moslty second hand hardware and some newer ish stuff.
I use a 34 inch thinkvision P34W-20 as my main monitor. It swivels on an arm to the side which i can game/work in a comfortable chair.
It acts as my dockingstation with single 10gb usb-C cable to my worklaptop or my pixelbook Go 13 inch for management of the homelab. Also it has usb-C and usb-B inputs on the side for easy acces for usb sticks, and controllers.
Upgrades to come: - Switch: I plan on upgrading both switches (upstairs and downstairs) to 16 port ubiquity switches to utilize and manage vlans better as well as provide POE for the accespoints arround the house. The sg200 works fine but doesn't integrate well into the ubiquity topology how i want it.
NAS: upgrade of drives and size. Drives are now 12 years old 4tb reds and two have failed on me in the last 2 years. Might upgrade the NAS as a whole as its not as power efficient and doesnt support SSD cache.
2 extra mini pc's for failover and experimentation. Or possible LLM experimentation using the E-GPU.
Switching to linux instead of windows with steamOS in the future.
What would you add or change for my homelabs.
