from Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 03 Jul 14:24
https://piefed.social/post/1002037
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.
#homelab #mini pc #odroid #selfhost #selfhosted
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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.
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's
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.
10/10 best value
@Ek-Hou-Van-Braai Why virtualise TrueNAS? IMO that's only really needed for single machine setups.
I was 50/50 between running it bare metal or in Proxmox, I decided to go with Proxmox as I felt it gave me some flexibility with also running other things on there if I really want and it makes backups of it easy (aka. I just do a proxmox backup, the same way I do all my services)
Yes, same - in cases of one server. Proxmox is just too nice for lazy ppl like me.
When you need a separate, dedicated NAS, then it’s bears to the metals ofc.
Function over form, I love it!
All homelabs are 5 star
Yeah, it’s fine … wait, IronWolves in a living space? Paired with that acoustic desk it must be like a train yard, but with more vibrations :D.
Edit: wrote this before I saw your comment acknowledging the same.
Well, with HDD there is the noise of the drive itself (the constant one & the searches, spin-ups), and the vibrations which can get acoustically amplified. For the former you need a case, any case, maybe a case in a case (ventilated ofc), for the latter I’ve always (since late 90s) had my HDD on full rubber, no non-rubber connection to the case.
My current NASies all use these (in desktop cases, I don’t like server hardware if it isn’t necessary, like with disks):
<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.zip/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fae01.alicdn.com%2Fkf%2FS3633ef9bd0ea4cafac9bebc240437a84J.jpg">
(They cost like 2 monies with shipping.)
So if going the 3D-print way, as you mentioned, I would def add the suggestion of incorporating thicc rubber pads or rubber straps into your design, like these ones (I’ve used them a lot decades ago, the only commercial option for silent PC enthusiasts at the time, but I’ve built then myself too):
<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.zip/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdawfreak.wordpress.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F09%2Fimg_1703.jpg">
<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.zip/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsilentpcreview.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2008%2F06%2Fnovibes25.jpg">
(It’s rigid, the disks won’t fall out.)
Ooo. That hdd solution looks like a mic shock mount. That’s brilliant.
The one is a Iron Wolf, the other is a WD Gold, both of which are ~5 years old, they were LOUD when I had a database running on them. They are now a lot quieter than my work laptop so they don't bug me anymore.
Thanks for the advice, I really like these solutions I'll definitely look into them
That’s beautiful but I don’t understand why two pair of cables go into the fan (is that a PSU?) and only one yellow wire comes out. Also where the motherboard. Need answer
The black box is the mini PC (note the Ethernet cable going into it) and the yellow/red/black cable is a single SATA power cable, that is daisy chained. Going from the PC to the drive and then going back to the fan control board
Edit: looks like it’s actually 3 SATA cables. Not daisy chained
And is that an Ethernet cable going into what looks like PSU? (I found the Ethernet cable you mentioned)
It looks like a PSU, but it's actually just a case for the odroid H4+
https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-h4-case-type-1/
It's 3 SATA power cables yes, plugged into the H4+
https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-h4-plus/
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!
11 out of 10
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
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