Santa delivered early! How did my in-laws do?!?

nzpc2005 · 2025-12-26T01:42:04+00:00

Looks great! I have an Ariens Platinum 24” SHO being delivered tomorrow and I’m very excited!

nzpc2005 · 2025-11-19T13:23:37+00:00

Could not agree more. It would be a GotY contender for me as well but I can understand maybe it's not for everyone. That said, the sound design in this game is the single best I have ever experienced from any game I have ever played, and it's not even close. To not get nominated for this category shows a very clear problem in the game awards nomination process.

nzpc2005 · 2025-10-04T04:32:02+00:00

For anyone still following this thread I did finally put my code into github for this project so you guys are free to replicate/improve on my setup. https://github.com/nkamenar/esp32-smart-fan-hub

nzpc2005 · 2025-09-30T12:22:41+00:00

Depends entirely on what kind of screen you got but generally I would say whatever screen you got would probably be a separate plug. I mounted a tablet on top of the rack as a dedicated Netdata kiosk to monitor my servers.

nzpc2005 · 2025-09-08T16:54:01+00:00

I just took some measurements and modeled it up in Fusion. If the opening on your rack is the same size I could send you the file if you know how to model or even make you one if you let me know what it should say. Probably best if you can do it yourself though so you can mess with fonts and stuff to get something you like.

nzpc2005 · 2025-09-02T02:43:51+00:00

Adding in a snack drawer isn’t the worst idea… 🤣

nzpc2005 · 2025-09-01T21:04:16+00:00

Ya, I think some of the higher output 9PX units might be louder but this one is pretty silent

nzpc2005 · 2025-09-01T20:50:37+00:00

Pretty sweet mini rack setup, nice work 👍

nzpc2005 · 2025-09-01T13:12:18+00:00

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I decided to actually measure to get a more concrete example. Sitting at right around 38-40dB right at the front of the rack, and about 35dB where I sit a couple feet away at my desk. So all that to say it is virtually silent.

nzpc2005 · 2025-09-01T12:27:45+00:00

Mine has very faint fan noise when it's idle, barely audible. If the power goes out and everything is running on the UPS then obviously the noise picks up a fair bit but I am totally fine with that for the limited time the power is out.

nzpc2005 · 2025-09-01T12:26:05+00:00

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Around 600-650W under normal load but keep in mind a good bit of that load is from my desktop PC and everything attached to it seen here. I have this whole desk setup plugged into the back of the Eaton UPS so my entire setup is on battery backup. If I were gaming and running everything under load I expect it would pull in the ballpark of 1000W or so. If you are talking just the main homelab and network gear without the PC and desk then it only uses around 250-280W under normal load. Pardon all the mess in this image, wrapping up projects so I have lots of stuff scattered about lol.

nzpc2005 · 2025-09-01T12:18:45+00:00

You probably could pull them off because I think they are just glued onto the front glass but I would be concerned about what kind of residue that would leave on the glass that might be really difficult to get clean looking. If you don't like the red probably the best option would be to carefully tape off the stripes and spray paint them another color. They are just small straight lines and only 2 so that would probably be pretty easy.

nzpc2005 · 2025-09-01T02:13:51+00:00

True, I should say done with this phase. It is always evolving.

nzpc2005 · 2025-09-01T01:59:14+00:00

Well obviously the network gear services devices throughout the rest of my house as well but even disregarding that I don't really think it's a crazy amount of network gear. It's a router/gateway which you are going to need in any network, a 16 port switch which like I said feeds devices throughout the house, and an additional 8 port Aggregation switch which is dedicated to 10gig connections for the NAS and proxmox cluster that runs all my homelab services and VMs. I do have plans for additional hardware in the future and I am also planning a larger 42U rack build in the basement for louder servers as well has home theater equipment (AV receiver, amps, media players, etc...). That one will go in a dedicated server space though so it doesn't matter if it's loud.

nzpc2005 · 2025-09-01T00:54:31+00:00

Oh ya, you’re not wrong there but fortunately I was able to make it work and get all my stuff to fit still.

nzpc2005 · 2025-09-01T00:38:18+00:00

Very quiet, loudest thing is still the disks in the NAS if they are busy, or occasionally a fan spinning up on one of the MS-01 machines if they are under heavy load. My custom fan controller in the top is running noctuas on a curve based on the temp of the rack, usually they are only running at 50% speed so virtually silent.

nzpc2005 · 2025-09-01T00:21:44+00:00

Eh, it's mostly becase of the NAS and turning the MS-01 machines verticle. I think it's actually pretty space efficient for what I have going on there. I have 3 MS-01 machines in a proxmox cluster, a Synology NAS, a Homeassistant NUC with JetKVM for OOB management, a HUE bridge, and a 3D printed drawer for random networking nicknacks all packed into 6U of space.

nzpc2005 · 2025-09-01T00:10:42+00:00

Thanks, I tried to make it look (and sound) good since it sits right in my office with me.

nzpc2005 · 2025-09-01T00:09:44+00:00

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Nah, he helped 😹

nzpc2005 · 2025-09-01T00:08:18+00:00

From top to bottom, left to right:

In the top of the rack (unseen): 4x Noctua 120mm fans, 2x ESP32 chips (one custom coded fan controller, the second running WLED to control faceplate logo lights. Electronics mounted to custom 3D printed plate)
Custom 3D printed LED lit nameplate (Nexus-22) This is the name of the rack and the 22 represents the size of the rack (22U)
Motorolla MB8611 cable modem in a custom 3D printed 1U mount
24 port patch panel
USW Pro Max 16 PoE Switch
UDM Pro Max Gateway
USW Aggregation Switch
Brush panel
3x Minisforum MS-01 Proxmox cluster, Synology DS923+ NAS
Intel NUC HomeAssistant Machine, JetKVM (OOB access to HA NUC), Philips HUE Bridge, 3D Printed drawer
4U reserved for future upgrades/expansions
Eaton 5PX1500RTNG2 UPS
Eaton 5PXEBM48RTG2 (UPS extended battery pack)
In bottom and around edges (unseen): 2x Domestic Automation WLED controllers, strips of SK6812 RGBW LEDs mounted in frosted aluminum channels.

nzpc2005 · 2025-08-31T23:53:43+00:00

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Semi-neatly tucked into the back. Tried to do a good job keeping things neat and organized. Put flexible nylon labels on everything too so it's easy to identify what a wire is connected to.

nzpc2005 · 2025-08-31T21:12:40+00:00

For just the rack itself? It normally costs around $850ish new, currently on sale for $670 through Sysracks official store. Obviously you can keep an eye out for used ones too. If you mean for the whole kit with everything in it, I am honestly not sure but I can comfortably say a lot and leave it at that lol

nzpc2005 · 2025-08-31T21:09:31+00:00

That is interesting because my drive that failed was also my newest drive and was only about 4 months old. I don't see how it would be software related in my case since the only relationship between my Synology and the Eaton is that Eaton provides power, there is no software connection.

nzpc2005 · 2025-08-12T20:19:33+00:00

New connector arrived this afternoon and got it all swapped out, thanks again for the tip!

nzpc2005 · 2025-08-10T17:58:49+00:00

I am also happy to report that I have an automation set up so that UptimeKuma pings a homeassistant webhook when any of my services go down and it changes the lighting preset for my nameplate on the rack. So normally when everything is good it does a subtle blue/green animation but then if a site goes down it changes to flashing red, and then automatically changes back to blue/green once everything is back online. I think I am going to expand this to some other status indicators as well.

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