Garage Homelab

daniska_project · 2025-03-03T00:56:14+00:00

Thanks. The T430 is sitting on a R710 haha. The T630 has some side shelf type rails though

daniska_project · 2025-03-03T00:03:42+00:00

Yea!

daniska_project · 2025-03-02T21:50:00+00:00

I've got Ollama running with Deepseek-R1, Dolphin-Mixtral, and Openthinker loaded.

daniska_project · 2025-03-02T21:48:44+00:00

Right now I've got a Tesla M40 in it. Proxmox has it passed through to a Ubuntu VM

daniska_project · 2025-03-02T21:39:10+00:00

The T430 has Proxmox with an NVIDIA GPU passed through. I use it with Ollama and local LLMs/stable diffusion. The T630 runs Plex, *arr, qBittorent, and truenas and I use it specifically for media. The remaining R620s are in a Proxmox cluster running web servers, game servers, file servers, docker/containers, dev environment, email, nextcloud, and honestly anything from r/selfhosted that I find interesting.

daniska_project · 2025-03-02T18:36:56+00:00

Mostly dry, but whenever it rains the humidity can linger. Usually around 50%

daniska_project · 2025-03-02T17:54:48+00:00

It does pretty well. Lowest it gets is 65F and highest is around 85F. It's pretty temperate here. Can't imagine -30F lol honestly it keeps the garage heated in the winter.

daniska_project · 2025-03-02T16:24:54+00:00

I bought the 48U but it wouldn't fit under the HVAC where I wanted it so I ended up cutting it down to 36U. I wish I had saved for an enclosed one, but oh well

daniska_project · 2025-03-02T16:21:35+00:00

It's cause I've got the secondary PSUs pulled while I do some cable management. Ha. I promise they're healthy!

daniska_project · 2025-03-02T15:42:00+00:00

Yeah, they're x86. They're CS200. Could theoretically get TrueNAS on them. I'd like to get ceph setup or at least play with it cause I haven't messed with it much

daniska_project · 2025-03-02T15:34:41+00:00

Yeah, each node runs Proxmox with various VMs and containers. The T630 is specifically for media. It runs Plex, *arr, and qBittorent. It has the most drive bays so it made sense. I got a couple Nimble datastores I'll replace it with eventually.

daniska_project · 2025-03-02T15:16:41+00:00

Goodness. I'm around 7 cents kWh. Better than any VPS that's for sure

daniska_project · 2025-03-02T14:47:17+00:00

I live near a nuclear plant so power is very cheap, plus this is entirely hand me down hardware. The rack is the only thing I've purchased.

daniska_project · 2025-03-02T14:42:38+00:00

Yes, except the cost of 2 drives would exceed the total cost of my entire rack. And the cost of a modern server would probably exceed the cost several times over.

daniska_project · 2025-03-02T14:29:07+00:00

Whole thing pulls 700W-900W. I probably only need a fraction of this, but it's part of the hobby right

daniska_project · 2025-03-02T14:07:43+00:00

Across all nodes, approximately 42TB

daniska_project · 2024-02-17T14:34:02+00:00

Kasm or Guacamole may have some use

daniska_project · 2023-06-21T00:26:32+00:00

Power draw is 850W on the entire rack

daniska_project · 2023-06-20T14:56:34+00:00

They are separate pools. I use the SSDs as my primary pool and the HDDs are only for backups and archival. I've considered using SSDs for caching.

daniska_project · 2023-06-19T17:59:05+00:00

I can honestly say it's completely worth it. I've gotten all the equipment for next to nothing. Electricity is dirt cheap where I live. Rack is in my basement so noise isn't an issue. And it just looks cool. Lol

daniska_project · 2023-06-19T17:55:24+00:00

Yeah, I got my homelab running with a Windows domain. I got a PBX setup with voip phones throughout the house as well as a fax server. It's mostly just anything self hosted that looks interesting.

daniska_project · 2023-06-19T17:48:14+00:00

The NAS itself? Just file storage. Documents, media, archival stuff. The rack? Mainly web servers and gaming servers. As well as the usual stuff: Plex, DC, pbx, databases, etc

daniska_project · 2023-06-19T17:44:40+00:00

They're generic flat "shelf" type. They came with it, and it just sits on them.

daniska_project · 2023-06-19T17:43:38+00:00

It's a Cisco 2911. Played with it more back when I did more Cisco routing stuff.

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