How it started:
I bought a MiniPC (Blackview MP-80) to run Home Assistant and some lights etc. to go with it.
It’s now exactly one year later this is what my setup looks like now:
BMAX B2 Pro --> Home Assistant OS
Blackview MP-80 --> Proxmox --> Nextcloud-AIO & Immich
ODROID H4+ --> Proxmox --> TrueNAS
How it’s going:
With the heatwave in Europe I’ve now installed cooling to keep my HDD’s from heating up.
I know it’s Janky as hell, but I love it. The plan going forward is to buy a 3D Printer so that I can 3D Print a custom 10" rack, and I’ll build my own cooling and temperature monitoring system with ESP32 and create a dashboard for it in Home Assistant and sorting out networking.
It’s a work in progress, having a lot of fun learning and adding new things.
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A+
A lesson I learnt along the way:
HDD’s on your desk are loud AF when you’re constantly writing to a database
Solution: Everything except backups and Media run on SSD’sSome drives are worse than others and higher capacities get worse and worse, in my experience, Seagate drives are extremely loud.
If you get helium drives (like wd red plus > 8TB i think),or 2nd hand hgst/ WD enterprise drives) they are significantly quieter.
But, having an ssd is cheaper probably. I have an SSD for the boot drive and all databases, configuration folders, etc… In docker so general IO is fast, then media, documents, pictures, etc… On the big HDDs.
Depends on the drive too, I have some insanely loud Ironwolf drives and you would never guess they’re from the same manufacturer as my practically silent Exos X18s.
Nice, 8/10. Don’t buy bambu lab, they will suck you soul.
a proper hobbyist setup, well done!
Just needs a 10" cardboard box with proper holes
Don’t get too carried away, it’s just a homelab
but, think of it… RACING STRIPES!!! or FLAMES!!!
You use bamboo skewers to mount the things off the bottom and dampen vibration. mabey use an internal flap and bent the disks out the front and the PSU out the back. If you have enough cardboard, you could even bend it a bit and do like a jet engine with the fan sticking out the front.
cardboard papercraft homelab… I almost want to get rid of my 42 U rand and make a voltron now.
Does she have a sister?
11 out of 10
I’ll build my own cooling and temperature monitoring system
I bunged mine in the fridge, just drill a hole out of the side for the cables then use rubber sealant.
It’s great but that fan is an overkill. 😂
Very much so, but I do enjoy gross overkill.
I’ll build them into a future case then they won’t be as overkill
I adore every piece of this
My OG system had the whole side panel on the case ripped out where I stuck a fan because the CPU fan died, that was over a decade ago I love your setup <3
10/10
What’s the black pcb on top of the odroid?
Thanks!!
It’s a 10 Euro fan controller, that I’m temporarily using till I can build my own with ESP32
Nice setup. I also started with a mini PC but couldn’t find a reasonable way to add drives, how are yours attached? In general I would love to find some reasonable prices DAS/JBOD options
Thanks. ODROID allows 4 drives with sata, it’s a really nice solution.
You could attach even more with using nvme
Damn. I was looking for agrees for someone like that, now I’m stuck with a microATC board that is great but doesn’t fit in a 10" rack, why are there no 12" racks? ^^
