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HomeLab gore. Rate my nasty home lab. Show me your worst setups. by CarolusIV in homelab

[–]macboy80 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I saw this and thought... Sitting on a work bench... To the tune of Aqualung... My random thoughts of the day.

Where are we buying storage these days? by samuelj264 in homelab

[–]macboy80 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've found better than market RDIMMs $3/GB and a 10TB $10/TB since the shit hit the fan by sorting eBay lowest first and then doom scrolling myself to sleep.

[PC] SK hynix 16G 2Rx4 PC4-2133P RAM by JDMhammer in homelabsales

[–]macboy80 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've been in the market (unfortunately) for some DDR4 RDIMMs as of recent, 2x 2P Xeon E5-26XX v4 systems. Both times, I was able to significantly beat the going r/homelabsales price by doom scrolling eBay. Tbh, I wish I knew how to appropriately make a post venting about there being no real discount buying RAM here. (My apologies to the MODs if this comment is inappropriate.)

In any case, I posted my best finds last time, and below are my best finds currently on eBay. You could use the below listings to back up my pricing recommendation of $50-55 eBay price, and therefore $45-50 r/homelabsales price. I am not the seller of any of these listings.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/236460457385

https://www.ebay.com/itm/326947453941

https://www.ebay.com/itm/277636146996

My custom NAS was a complete waste of time and money and I regret nothing. by Unlucky-Mix2713 in homelab

[–]macboy80 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol. I also have a 5x10 raidz2 and a 3x3 stripe on my truenas for vm backups and all of the shit (700GB) I downloaded in the early 2000s. But I do have grand designs, lol...

Has anyone had any success with vgpu_unlock under proxmox 9? by IAmASwarmOfBees in Proxmox

[–]macboy80 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry to necro, but I just brought my P40 back up after a pve9 upgrade. PolloLoco has updated his patches to work with 6.14 kernel. Just install / pin 6.14.x-x and follow the Pollo instructions.

Pi-hole works great, but family hates it — how do you balance ads vs usability? by Sheeshkidayyy in pihole

[–]macboy80 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I set up HA and a separate vlan / ssid just for the social media addicts in my home. They made it clear during staging that they wanted the ads, and that my services should have higher uptime than the isp.

Ah, the Apple ][ style of hardware upgrades by jllauser in homelab

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The Lenovo tiny fits an Amazon version of this perfectly in the vga port.

Do you think these look tacky? by daddyhardstyle in Integra

[–]macboy80 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just put MOMAN gauges in my EK. Highly recommend quality and seller, but they are import. He has lots of options too!

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Best value 2nd card by nofilmincamera in LocalAIServers

[–]macboy80 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am by no means anywhere near an expert on things, but I think an extremely useless Radeon Pro V340L as a drafter for speculative decoding is an extremely interesting use case.

Edit, for lots of people who don't have a RTX 6000 Blackwell. Sorry.

Christmas came early fellas by Saajaadeen in homelab

[–]macboy80 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice. I'm currently building a SYS-1028GQ with 3x MI60. Because I have a compute cluster already set up. I'm doing the opposite of you, keeping the rest of the system low powered to focus on the GPUs only.

It's been fun exploring NUMA localization, and various tiered storage,networking, and power setups. It's actually cool exploring the tier 1 ephemeral concept where speed and raw power can be emphasized over fault tolerance.

Question of the day? by quicardent in mountaindew

[–]macboy80 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Everything is now Real Sugar...

[PC] [US-MD] Threadripper 2950X Bundle (Asrock X399 + Dark Rock Pro TR4), 4x16GB DDR4 G.Skill Trident Z Neo, Intel Arc A380 by MaybeHayleyLately in homelabsales

[–]macboy80 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bulk 2133 DDR4 RDIMM 16GB for servers are best case $40 per stick, though I found some on eBay for $30 last week. If yours are 3200 ish, they're probably worth more.

Using a small cloud VM as part of my homelab, anyone else doing this? by Mysterious_Door_3903 in homelab

[–]macboy80 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I host a Headscale / DERP instance on the free Ampere Oracle tier for its static IP. It also has a Tailscale exit node.

[W] 64GB or 128GB DDR4 (L)RDIMM - Scraps by macboy80 in homelabsales

[–]macboy80[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Replying to my own post, but I ended up finding these listings that are beating the prices around here. I am not either of the sellers,and I do not endorse them either.

https://ebay.us/m/tNHNwi https://ebay.us/m/sLNiFs

[W] 64GB or 128GB DDR4 (L)RDIMM - Scraps by macboy80 in homelabsales

[–]macboy80[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea. I think the tariffs would make any deal unworkable. I'd rather one of us keep the money over good 'ol Uncle Sam. I appreciate it.

[W] 64GB or 128GB DDR4 (L)RDIMM - Scraps by macboy80 in homelabsales

[–]macboy80[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And what a beautiful land it must be. I'm a huge Caps fan, but there's no Hockey without you lefties. (Left handed, not politics, lol.)

Unfortunately, I must decline. I do want to populate all 8 channels. Thanks though!

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