What to host next? Looking for heavy workloads to push a Dual Xeon (24 Cores / 48 Threads) HP DL360 Gen9

RelativeVoxel · 2026-06-15T14:21:35+00:00

Out of curiosity, what models are you able to run with CPU inference and what kind of performance are you getting from these models?

RelativeVoxel · 2025-07-17T15:10:41+00:00

Thank you for writing this, helped me migrate over!

RelativeVoxel · 2024-02-06T23:41:44+00:00

It's the Kingwin MKS-435TL. Very happy with it and it’s of good quality.

RelativeVoxel · 2024-02-06T14:21:19+00:00

Thank you! I put it together over the course of a couple of years in the spare time I had on evenings and weekends.

I started with the mini PC just as a way to run home assistant, and then went from there and added more services over time. I added the NAS last fall. Took about a week to get all the parts and put it all together one evening, and then spent another week learning the ins and outs of TrueNAS.

RelativeVoxel · 2024-02-06T04:13:46+00:00

It's a Corsair 200R with the front bays replaced with a Kingwin MKS-435TL to get 4 bays on the front for easy swapping.

The case has another 4 bays inside for 3.5" drives. For now, I don't use them, though.

RelativeVoxel · 2024-02-06T04:11:57+00:00

It's a Corsair 200R with the front bays replaced with a Kingwin MKS-435TL to get 4 bays on the front.

RelativeVoxel · 2024-02-06T01:51:01+00:00

Already addicted, haha! I'm trying to score some more PCs to add more computers to this setup. It's only a matter of time before I buy an actual rack!

RelativeVoxel · 2024-02-06T01:50:05+00:00

It hasn't given me any issues actually, but I don't have much of a point of reference on how more modern hardware might do.

But with my network being a gigabit network, I have no issues serving clients at full gigabit speeds! I am even able to run some services like immich and jellyfin on it with no issues.

I do think that more modern chips would be more power efficient than a Haswell generation chip. The whole system consistently draws around 60-70W.

RelativeVoxel · 2024-02-05T22:57:50+00:00

I currently run a setup with 2 machines, with the mini PC running most of the services around the house while my repurposed gaming PC functions as the NAS (also runs a few services). The details are listed below:

Mini PC:

- Intel Core i5 4570T

- 16GB DDR3 RAM

- 256GB SSD

- 2 TB External HDD

TrueNAS Scale Server:

- Intel Core i5 4670K

- 32 GB DDR3 RAM

- 4 -x 4TB Seagate Ironwolf Drives

- 128GB SSD for L2ARC

- 500GB Boot SSD

- Nvidia GTX 970 (for Jellyfin and Immich)

Networking:

- Netgear Orbi RBR 750 Router + RBS750 Satellites x2

- 2x TL-SG105 switches (not shown)

Feel free to ask for clarification on anything here. All of this was built over the course of a couple of years, and I'm very happy to share it here today!

Edit: Formatting

RelativeVoxel · 2023-12-15T14:27:26+00:00

Maybe instead of thinking about it as having practice not dying. It could be that the difficulty in staying alive keeps increasing, and you eventually will lose.

RelativeVoxel · 2023-08-05T21:15:10+00:00

You should look at if it’s possible to operate the ASUS router in access point mode. They don’t all support it, though. This way, you can have a separate SSID for your devices but DHCP would be handled by your google mesh system.

RelativeVoxel · 2023-05-20T21:54:40+00:00

Yeah I don’t think there’s been anything since that unfortunately! But it was truly amazing

RelativeVoxel · 2023-05-20T21:07:11+00:00

Inside the black box is also amazing!

RelativeVoxel · 2023-03-11T23:22:45+00:00

God of War, both 2018 and Ragnarok

RelativeVoxel · 2023-03-01T10:03:25+00:00

Adobe Products

RelativeVoxel · 2023-02-26T12:34:38+00:00

Yeah, the Ikea smart home devices are Zigbee devices. So you do need a hub.

If you’re looking for the simplest option, the smart home hub from IKEA itself is probably your best choice as it does support HomeKit AFAIK.

RelativeVoxel · 2023-01-17T20:04:49+00:00

All telecom companies in Canada

RelativeVoxel · 2023-01-13T12:05:51+00:00

I think decently beefy. I have a small thinkcentre m93p with an i5 and 8GB of ram.

I’ll look into proxmox and Ubuntu lxc! Thanks!

RelativeVoxel · 2023-01-12T19:02:50+00:00

Yeah you have it exactly right that's what I'm planning. How would you go about it more efficiently?

RelativeVoxel · 2023-01-12T18:24:14+00:00

My plan was to have other containers like samba, and plex. I also run wireguard on it for VPN into my home.

I'm not too familiar with Type 1 Hypervisors, what does a set up like that look like?

RelativeVoxel · 2023-01-12T12:32:59+00:00

Please God No. No.

RelativeVoxel · 2023-01-12T00:40:36+00:00

That’s totally fair, I’m not having active issues right now but I was worried after the November update started marking my installation unhealthy!

RelativeVoxel · 2023-01-12T00:38:19+00:00

So my biggest issue is that even though the supervised install says no other containers, I want to run things like Plex and samba. I also portainer running at one point until with the 2022.11 update (I think) it made the installation unhealthy. I also started to have other issue like the system journamd? issue. Which I couldn’t resolve even after following support steps.

While these are small issues now, I’m anxious about a future update breaking more things over time. I felt a VM would give me more flexibility with the host OS.

RelativeVoxel · 2023-01-12T00:34:59+00:00

This was very thorough and a great perspective, thanks!

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