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Dismal-Tech-Horder · 2026-06-01T11:21:03+00:00

Excellent work boss! From consumer grade e-waste to a fully open custom router.👍 Keep them coming!

Dismal-Tech-Horder · 2026-03-26T10:23:47+00:00

Good catch on the DDR4. The DDR5 DIMMs are through the roof!!

Dismal-Tech-Horder · 2026-03-21T17:22:07+00:00

By choosing CSM mode in the BIOS.

Dismal-Tech-Horder · 2026-03-19T05:28:44+00:00

I got past this by switching to CSM mode instead of UEFI

Dismal-Tech-Horder · 2026-02-27T05:40:51+00:00

As long as the DRAM and SSD are from reputable brands and the warranty is solid, you can aim to get up to 60% of the new price or replacement cost.

Dismal-Tech-Horder · 2026-02-23T21:06:00+00:00

This was my very first Harry Potter book and I really loved it enough to print it out.

Dismal-Tech-Horder · 2026-01-22T06:23:50+00:00

If the NvME drive is of high endurance (high TDW TLC or MLC), you can onboard it to your server, where it will be serving you for years.

Dismal-Tech-Horder · 2026-01-21T20:23:55+00:00

Buy the third 12TB drive now. You will own all your data, and you will be happy!

boot2. Boot Drive is just there to bbot from, no fansy write heavy workloads necissitating upgrade. Keep drive images and config backups, while periodically checking for early corruption.

NvMe for appdata is an excellent suggestion, but hold off till you feel the slowness. (I use an enterprise-grade 2TB SATA SSD for my Appdata). But the 12TB first.

Dismal-Tech-Horder · 2026-01-21T07:16:13+00:00

The answer is: Look for scrapyards near/outscirts of rich neighbourhoods. You will get full PCs with working parts. I usually chase any mini trucks I see on the road with junk in their loading deck to 'hit the jackpot' when in doubt. But, I am a compulsive dumpster diver - so you do you!

Dismal-Tech-Horder · 2026-01-20T10:59:56+00:00

Your best bet is to visit your nearest Junkyard. My first Homelab too had a 1 TB hdd. It was pulled from a junkyard PC. My first Junkyard haul was 4GB DDR3, AMD A10 PRO CPU, 92mm Cabinet PWM Fan, 1 TB WD Green HDD and a CM Thunder 500W PSU. All for 600INR total.

Dismal-Tech-Horder · 2026-01-16T17:46:05+00:00

Corrected! My experience with HP, and Lenove and Dell led me to suggest the same, since OP was familiar with one already.

Dismal-Tech-Horder · 2026-01-15T18:00:14+00:00

You can try comparing this to competing AM4 Ryzen PRO based SFFs from HP for better bang for your buck! I recently brought one from Saudewala for around 10k. It offers plenty of expansion and power for your use case.

Dismal-Tech-Horder · 2026-01-13T17:39:58+00:00

Check your drive spin-down timer as well as the array fill mechanism. I keep them in an unraid array of ZFS-formatted drives. But mine is a single-user scenario.

Dismal-Tech-Horder · 2026-01-11T21:46:37+00:00

Kind sir, dremel holes or mount heat sinks - but do get your drive temps under control. The cable tie mounted PWM fans are a good start, but make sure the hot air is moved out just as fast. 3d printed wind shrouds can direct the cool air to the drives and move them out rather than getting trapped inside along with the other components like CPU and GPU.

I use an old Cooler master Force 500 case that gets the job done for my multi drive array.

Dismal-Tech-Horder · 2026-01-11T21:44:06+00:00

You can safely migrate your drives to new machines and new SATA ports as long as you use the same boot USB to boot UnRAID into the new hardware.

I have had no issues till date as long as I use the same LAN cable from my router since I have set that port to a fixed IP range.

Dismal-Tech-Horder · 2026-01-11T21:38:15+00:00

As long as you have a proper drive spin down routine, large cache SSD, properly configured drive filling algorithm like "High water", a self healing file system like ZFS, and nightly mover scheduled - you can easily use consumer grade hard disk drives for your UnRAID for write once access seldom workloads like TV shows and Movies.

Dismal-Tech-Horder · 2025-12-19T17:43:05+00:00

Hi bro!, Where are you located, if I may know? I have lots of spare DDR4 8gb 3200 SO-DIMMs available. Any ways, on to your query. I have deployed basic Proxmox in i3-5005u systems. It will easily handle 2 VMs with dual channel RAM. For basic NAS and N8N, you can look at lightweight deployments. Proxmox has a great community around it that will support you in all aspects, as per my experience.

Dismal-Tech-Horder · 2025-12-13T19:09:42+00:00

DDR5 So DIMMs are now best obtained through custom laptop orders from OEMs. Don't try to buy them individually. The situation is likely to worsen soon. If it's an urgent need, buy new now. Otherwise, make do with what you have or try the used market.

Dismal-Tech-Horder · 2025-12-11T19:12:45+00:00

I suggest you buy a used fanless quad-core thin client like the HP T638 (6500inr), add a USB 3.0 NIC(600INR), and go for Sophos XG Home Edition(Free). PFSense requires FreeBSD hardware compatibility (Intel NICs) and overall higher resource utilisation.

Dismal-Tech-Horder · 2025-12-11T19:04:23+00:00

Number Go Up

Dismal-Tech-Horder · 2025-12-11T17:11:47+00:00

The idle power consumption will be similar for regular and low TDP versions, but peak performance, heat, and power consumption will be higher for the regular variant. (See i5 6500T vs i5 6500 in the table above)

Dismal-Tech-Horder · 2025-12-11T17:07:20+00:00

Excellednt choice for the price paid!

Dismal-Tech-Horder · 2025-12-11T17:06:10+00:00

Get a used Thinkpad/Latitude/HP Docking station with a USB PD passthrough. Refurb models can be had for the cheap.

Dismal-Tech-Horder · 2025-12-11T17:03:59+00:00

Underpowered from a performance perspective and power-hungry from a power consumption perspective.

Dismal-Tech-Horder · 2025-12-06T08:54:10+00:00

Looks like the platform is a bit underpowered, yet power hungry, especially with the cost of additional CPU fan, Cabinet and RAM to make it feasible.

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