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?

  • DaGhostDS@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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 😂

    Aren’t drive hibernating if you don’t use them?

    Anyway At worse it’s 20$ per month if you pay .38 kW/h. 😅

    Oh boy here we go for me :

    • 8x ESP32
    • 50 feet of LED
    • a crate of electrical hardware to power up everything.
    • a mini EliteDesk to replace my RetroPi with something with a bit more power.
    • I have to Install that dual 10gb card in my server.
    • I still have to finish my Watercooled GPU with an disconnect-able external radiator in his own case (I think I need another D5 pump… Damnit and more piping…)

    I won’t talk about everything else I need to do haha.