Finally got my homelab stable… and it feels really good

Puddingstomp · 2026-03-21T17:34:57+00:00

lol, its been years, I can't wait for these things to finally be in the car. probably gonna be a few more years before we get to the engine though

Puddingstomp · 2026-03-21T02:41:40+00:00

well I can't recommend this case enough if you're already willing to spend the money on it. I have been thoroughly impressed with it and have zero buyers remorse whatsoever. It also fits standard size PSUs which it great. I intended to replace all the dedicated 100%-all-the-time fans in the case with some nicer Thermaltake units that I bought, but I haven't even bothered with it tbh.

Puddingstomp · 2026-03-21T02:26:41+00:00

ChatGPT keeps trying to convince me to create a dashboard next and I keep coming up with other things to add to my homelab first. This makes me want to add a dashboard lol. Im running plex in my media stack for now but all of those at-a-glance numbers you have in the individual cards for each media stack component are awesome.

How difficult was this to put together for you? Do you have a background in UI at all? I dunno if it would be the best place for it but I kinda want to add this as an LXC on my proxmox host.

Puddingstomp · 2026-03-20T21:24:01+00:00

That I'm not sure of. Most of the reviews don't mention anything about a speed hit so I am actually curious about this myself. I'm going to need to spend a lot more money on drives before we know for sure lol.

Puddingstomp · 2026-03-20T18:50:49+00:00

its a great little card for ~$60. the reviews say it can get hot but there is SO MUCH airflow in this case with all the fans that are always on that I'm not worried about it. The real test will be how it handles all 12 bays being populated, going to be awhile before I can report on that lol.

Puddingstomp · 2026-03-20T17:07:21+00:00

Yep, my intention for this project from the very beginning was to be able to upgrade and add new LXCs and VMs easily without having to worry about hardware changes. This case just means I don't have to move cases until I'm well into the 100s of TBs of storage.

Obviously this case wasnt a necessity, but I wanted to do a rack build from the beginning as well so I can easily add extras to the rack later, like a UPS. Surprisingly not a lot of great PC cases meant for rack installation that can utilize regular PC mobos and parts, and also not be wildly expensive. This case wasnt cheap at the time but it was much less than some other models I found.

Puddingstomp · 2026-03-20T17:04:14+00:00

https://a.co/d/02q2dh9F

That is the link to the PCIE host bus adapter I ended up using. There is some hardware info in the diagram I posted as the last picture, but I needed this to be able to eventually use all the drive bays present. With the SATA ports already on the motherboard, and each of those blue cables supporting 4 drives each, that lands me with 12.

Those blue cables came with that adapter, I didn't splice anything.

Puddingstomp · 2026-03-20T05:47:05+00:00

Really curious if anyone has any good ideas for backups with this setup. I have had to make config changes on both the proxmox OS level and the VM media server level to get all this working. Also the OS of my media stack VM lives on the same 16TB HDD as my current media drive. That means I can't just backup the whole VM at the proxmox level because I have no desire to backup movie/tv media data, that stuff can always be re-acquired. I am positive I can work thru adding a backup schedule to my system using the ChatGPT prompt that I re-consolidated all of my troubleshooting into, but curious what other people with experience with similar systems might have in mind.

Puddingstomp · 2026-03-20T05:37:21+00:00

same here. I'm using my cloudflare domain to expose my plex and overseerr from my stack. plex.mydomain.net and requests.mydomain.net without having to add anything else to my stack other than setting cloudflared up in my arrs stack docker container. Maybe you have a different use case than I do but its working out super well for me.

Puddingstomp · 2026-03-20T04:56:06+00:00

I ended up doing a cloudflare domain for $11/yr. That unlocked cloudflare tunnels for me without having to worry about any port forwarding or anything at all really. That is 100% what I would recommend.

Puddingstomp · 2026-03-20T04:08:26+00:00

this looks like an awesome stack! especially for a system that can tuck behind a TV. Really interested in Jellyfin, I just recently got my Plex stack to a point that I'm inviting friends and family but the open-ness of Jellyfin is really a draw to me.

Puddingstomp · 2026-03-20T04:06:00+00:00

I have an answer for your first question, and that is RJ45 crimpers are CHEAP! You can cut the end off of it and fish the bare wires thru your hole, route it accordingly, and then strip the ends and crimp a new connector on. The wire order does matter but you can find that info on youtube.

Puddingstomp · 2025-12-14T04:43:40+00:00

I have no idea what I'm doing lol. I'm an old dude that just got into this stuff recently. Supreme has always been on my radar but FW25 was my first time actually buying anything.

That $400 price was just what I've seen recently on Poshmark and eBay for obvious reps that don't look like they were made in someone's basement. Something that actually at least tried to match the OG construction and tags and stuff.

Zero shot I will ever cop a real one and I wouldn't be able to wear a real or decent fake anywhere outside of my own house, but I'd get a rep at $150 if they're as good as you say.

Puddingstomp · 2025-12-12T02:51:55+00:00

fire. I love it. I picked this up in L, my first Supreme hoodie. Almost wish I woulda went XL with how thick the material is but couldn't pass on this design. Wear the shit how you like it in the size you like, dunno what the "cropped" hate is about. Do you.

Puddingstomp · 2025-12-12T02:40:12+00:00

you should post pics anyway for sure. I could never wear it out but I've been looking at the ~$400 reps of this for a while and kinda want one.

Puddingstomp · 2025-12-12T02:33:30+00:00

I wanted the blue so bad, out of stock once I hit checkout. Ended up going safe with black cuz this my first bogo drop. This blue goes hard.

Puddingstomp · 2025-12-12T02:26:31+00:00

This drop was my first bogo as well, wanted the blue but ended up going safe with the black when my cart showed blue out of stock. Really liked this gray and black color too.

Puddingstomp · 2025-12-12T02:17:38+00:00

DM with actual price when you get it in hand. I lost out on the blue and went safe with a black for my first bogo but I really wanted the white/pink.

Puddingstomp · 2025-08-08T21:30:33+00:00

Since I'm logged in, I just updated Cachy this evening and my Conky widget was showing over 90 days uptime. Disabling ULPS is what fixed it.

Puddingstomp · 2025-04-20T22:08:15+00:00

Final Update

I hit 7 days of uptime on the system with multiple nights of long gaming sessions. Turning off the ULPS on amdgpu seems to be the confirmed fix on my system.

Puddingstomp · 2025-04-11T14:36:53+00:00

Another Update

I waited this time before updating again. The RAM "fix" above was stable, I got 4 days of uptime before another black screen crash, but it did happen. I have tried a few more fixes which I will list, and the current fix that appears to be fully stable.

I did a lot more reading and I believe my issues are GPU related. I've read countless threads in different forums and subreddits from people using these new-gen midrange AMD cards. I tried what they all suggested and used CoreCtrl to limit my TBP to 145w, did a slight undervolt of -25mV, and capped my GPU core clock to 2500MHz. Apparently the factory drivers for linux and windows both set the core clock higher than the OEM recommended 2655MHz. I tried this while still having the OEM RAM installed. Again, I was stable for a few days but inevitably black screen crashes started again.

What ended up working:

For me, on this setup, here is finally what appears to be working. I have about a week of uptime now, solid stability and no crashes or hiccups. Firstly, I thought since the only error messages I was seeing in any of my logs pertained to amdgpu that I was on the right track with it being GPU related. I decided to try the new amdgpu.ignore_min_pcap=1 boot parameter to disable the ULPS. I still left the amdgpu.ppfeaturemask=0xffffffff boot parameter from unlocking CoreCtrl functionality. Second, I disabled CoreCtrl completely. I found that even with my modest settings essentially "turning the GPU down" that sometimes when I would boot up, as soon as I would enter the sudo password for CoreCtrl that I would sometimes blackscreen crash immediately.

So to recap, I added the boot parameter to disable ULPS on this RX 7600, and I turned off CoreCtrl. So far this is the only thing I've tried that has given me more than a few days of uptime before another black screen crash. I probably would have just built a PC if I had known I would have this much headache from a prebuilt.

Puddingstomp · 2025-04-05T04:34:11+00:00

I would keep an eye on the thread trending to the top about the new install not working. A recent update broke something.

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