Total 12U of space available on my stacked Unifi Toolless Mini Rack, and the setup is designed to be compact without compromise.

I have 1U of extra available space for future expansion, but I feel like I have more than enough compute that I need.

From top to bottom:

• Main daily driver, 9900X + RTX 5000 ADA. Connected to my office through 15m fiber displayport and USB cables. Sliger cx2151c chassis, writeup here.
• A blank row for future expansion.
• 8x Raspberry Pi 5 in a docker swarm mode cluster. Used to run all of my web services. Racknex um-sbc-207
• UDM Pro - 2Gb symmetric primary service, and netgear lm1200 with Google Fi as backup WAN2 (ziptied to the side of the rack, not visible in pic)
• Unifi Pro Max 24 PoE switch, my biggest mistake. I should have gone for the Prod HD 24 PoE, which has 10GbE ports. Possibly my next upgrade if I can find a buyer for this current switch.
• UNAS Pro as primary shared storage for my Docker swarm cluster
• Primary server, 64 core ARM Ampere CPU + RTX 3090, hosts my development tools (CI/CD + Build host, remote dev environment, etc), stable diffusion, and also doubles as a backup NAS which the UNAS Pro backs up to weekly. Write here

Unifi PDU-Pro mounted on the backside, and a dji power 1000 power bank as an external UPS.

I have a server in a Phanteks Enthoo Pro 2 that I’ve posted about before. The first upgrade was adding drive bays to bring my total capacity to 18-20 (first picture). For my next little upgrade, I decided I wanted to tackle the power cables in the back of the server. As you can see in the second pic, the cables that came with the PSU have a large amount of extra wire looping around behind the connectors, which was getting pressed up badly against the back panel when closed, and it worried me that this tension was going to cause issues.

I bought some 90° sata power connectors on moddiy.com and some 16gauge primary wire (pure copper) from my local AutoZone. After some VERY CAREFUL planning I ended up soldering the new wires to the existing PSU cables (didn’t want to mess with the actual connector to the PSU), and here’s the result! I was terrified to plug it in because I’d read so many horror stories about burning up drives, but it’s been a week and it’s smooth sailing! As a bonus I now have 6 drives being powered from each cable, so this should be a good solution going forward up until I have the full 18 drives in the case!

Little mix of everything!

Ms-01 I5 with 96g ram and a jbod with 30tb attached.

An old intel i7 canyon nuc with 16gb ram

Optiplex 7040 with 32gb ram,

Old gaming rig with 5900x, 64gb ram and a 3090.

Raspberry pi 5

And I've got a 7050 optiplex coming in the mail.

Firewall appliance running opnsense with 10g uplink to unifi switch.

Trying to build a “cloud in a box!”

Got everything connected, now comes the configuring part :)

Title, basically. Most RAM I have ever owned in a system of my own. Never thought id ever need that much really. But the headroom is needed.

Here is my ever growing home lab.

I started just over a year ago with a few chromeboxes my job was tossing because they were EOL. Installed Ubuntu on them both to have a Pihole pair.

Then we decommissioned some HP prodesk workstations which started my dive into proxmox and jellyfin.

Next I built a new gaming PC and replaced the HP Prodesk with my old rig, then recently acquired the Dell Percesion 5820 from work and I'm running a 3 node cluster.

NZXT PC: i5 10400, gtx1080, 32 gigs of ram, and around 6tb of various storage (SSD and HDD) running proxmox. I've got most of my VMs/Containers on this one now because I was having stability issues with the Dell until they were able to send me a new motherboard and RAM. Currently hosting sonarr, radarr, jellyseerr, qbittorrent, 2 windows 11 VMs, my old truenas and a Pihole container.

Dell: Xenon W-2225, Nvidia Quadro P4000, 32 gigs of ram 4 8tb HDD in a RaidZ1, and 2 nvme drives in a pcie card. Currently just running my new truenas server with jellyfin media and a replication of my old truenas, and my jellyfin lxc. I'm working on getting the GPU sharing with lxc working so I can also run an open webui instance.

Chromebox essentially running as a Qdevice but running 2 light weight containers. One for my reverse proxy configuration and the other for my twingate connector.

Another Chromebox running Ubuntu with Pihole and another twingate connector installed

And the newest edition is the Prodesk in the picture running proxmox backup server so I finally have a backup solution. All of my containers and VMs are on a weekly backup, and I will have a monthly cronjob to backup my jellyfin media.

It's come a long way in a short time, and I feel like I keep trying to add more.

I'm just finalising my network, and while everything is working I am looking for a second opinion to make sure everything is as it should be.

Port 10 on the Cisco switch is connected to port 10 of the Zyxel. Port 2 of the Zyxel is for my PoE AP.

AP has management VLAN1 and SSID VLAN69.

Getting a new rack but this is the current state of my first attempt at a home lab setup

Hi everyone! This is my very first post and a very first homelab project. 2xHP T530 128GB SSD tandem running proxmox with pihole and Tailscale. HP Elitedesk G4 SFF with 2x 4TB HDD WD, 512GB SSD SATA and 256GB NVMe Running Jellyfin and that’s all for now…

Hello, just got into data hoarding recently and its obviously getting out of hand, usbs, hdds and nvmes scattered everywhere so I wanna have a clean setup from scratch. Planning to host a media server with Jellyfin as well as store photos/videos from my familys devices remotely and some basic data storage (comic books and such), how does this setup look? Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

Ps. Looked into a Nas but with the ammount of devices I want to stream to simultaneously I figured the raw power of a NUC would be best for me and my wallet, please correct me if Im wrong. I also have a limited space so cant go for a rack.

Not sure where to post this, but I have a WD gold that on cold start makes the usual clicks then rythmic click click click click then BRTRTRTRTRT. I contacted support which then said it was defective. Smart data shows fine but maybe someone smarter than me can interpolate it. I asked a few friends and it’s been 50/50 as dead and alive. Need some advice as I want to avoid an RMA if possible.