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.
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.
A+
Just needs a 10" cardboard box with proper holes
Does she have a sister?
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.
There would definitely be flames if you forgot the proper holes!
Lol a jet engine shaped cardboard case held together with bamboo skewers would actually be pretty rad
Not gona lie, I’m very tempted it’ll get me lots of Internet points, and definitely a few haters
a proper hobbyist setup, well done!
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.
The other HDD I have is a WD Gold, it’s definitely the louder of the two, both of them are ~5 years old. Now that I moved the databases off of them, they are quieter than my work laptop, so they don’t bug me.
But oh boy, it really did sound like a train yard at one point.
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
If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing!
There’s nothing that could possibly go wrong with this strategy. 😂
11 out of 10
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
Aaah, that explains the potmeter. Thanks!
Nice, 8/10. Don’t buy bambu lab, they will suck you soul.
Thanks <3
I’m going to go with the Sovol SV06 Plus ACE , I’m a big advocate for Open Source, so anything that requires proprietary software isn’t really an option for me.
I live in a tiny apartment, so my biggest hurdle with getting a 3D printer right now is space.
I’m waiting for one of those right now as well!
Yea not super thrilled with bambu lab for the privacy concerns but the printer itself is good. I just use it in lan only mode and block any outgoing network traffic on my router.
But there are other brands that are good. Ive heard prusa is nice but never tried them.
I have bambu printer they are good, but my printer stopped printing until I’ve allowed it to phone home for a bit, this repeated twice already.
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
All homelabs are 5 star
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? ^^
Lol, brilliant.
At first you are thinking “this is going to be so nice and compact and tidy” and then…
Love it though
I think u friki and i like u a lot. Hehehhe you should see mine, is all made of old repurposed garbage. Wtb Corsair peripherals ftw!
10/10 best value
