About me
Oh wow, you want to know more about me?
Well, that's unexpected ^^'
Let's see... Hobbies, right.
As you probably saw on my homepage, I'm really into IT. Coding and Home Labbing, are two of my biggest passions. But lately I got myself into reading again. Currently, my favorite books are Ready Player One and Two closely followed by The Loop series.
Ok, we went a bit of track there. Back to the topic of IT stuff,
My lab currently consists of multiple servers. Mainly three storage Servers, one Proxmox and one Proxmox Backup Server.
My whole Lab is at Home in a 25 U StarTech Rack. And let me say, I love this thing. Not only is it rock solid, it's also one of the cheapest, and it even has a variable depth. Meaning, if you don't have deep/long servers, let it on a short depth. But if you suddenly get a huge server like a 36 bay SuperMicro server, you can just make it longer!
Well now, lets talk about sweet sweet specs.
There you have it:
HomeLab Overview
Servers and Storage
- SuperMicro Storage Server - Main Storage Server:
- OS: TrueNas Scale
- CPU: Xeon E4-2630 v4
- RAM: 128 GB DDR4 ECC
- Storage:
- Pool 1 - Main Pool (66.8 TB Usable)
- vDev1: 4 x 18 TB Seagate Exos HDD (RAID 6)
- vDev2: 4 x 20 TB Seagate Exos HDD (RAID 6)
- Pool 2 - Torrenting Pool (3.6 TB Usable)
- vDev1: 1 x 4 TB Seagate IronWolf HDD
- DELL Mini Tower (Dell Vostro 3020 SFF) - Proxmox Server:
- OS: Proxmox VE
- CPU: i5-13400
- RAM: 64 GB DDR4
- Storage: 1 TB WD Red SN700 NVMe SSD
- HP Mini Tower - Proxmox Backup Server:
- OS: Proxmox Backup Server
- CPU: Pentium J3710
- RAM: 8 GB DDR3
- Storage: 2 TB WD Red HDD
- Synology DS220+ - Family Storage Server:
- Storage: 2 x 4 TB Seagate IronWolf HDD (RAID 1)
- Usable Storage: 3.6 TB
- Synology DS1522+ - External Backup Server (for Proxmox and Family Server):
- Storage: 5 x 4 TB Seagate IronWolf HDD (RAID 5)
- Usable Storage: 14.4 TB
Network Equipment
- Unifi UDM SE: Router
- USW Pro Max 24: 16 x 1 Gig, 8 x 2.5 Gig, 2 x 10 Gig
- USW Flex 2.5G: 2.5 Gig switches for the flat
- U6+: Access Points
Power and UPS
- APC USV:
- Description: APC Smart-UPS 1000VA (Batteries replaced with new (bigger) ones)
- Capacity: 12 x 8.5 Ah - ~1h 45m runtime at ~250 W load
Cloud Services
- Ionos - Pangolin Host:
- RAM: 1 GB
- Cores: 1
- Storage: 10 GB
- Price: 10 € / year