My Homelab! (and a little network upgrade)

[dry bolt]

Very nice. Approved. @eager minnow will also enjoy.

[eager minnow]

Thy dare ping me.

Managed to pull the fiber optic signal straight from the street! Everything from the ISP is now ditched
I mean... They still provide your internet...

But wow. Beautiful.

Omg you made the rack. That's fuckign sick.

Tingles muh innards looking at this. Wooden rack is sick.

[dry bolt]

Mfw I have a 27U MiddleAtlantic rack and a worse selection of gear and cable management.

[eager minnow]

Oh my god it's even being used as a fucking desk leg.

[dry bolt]

This is inspiring me to do a rack revamp.

My racks need attention.

[lean grove]

Yeah that’s true, but at least it’s a little faster now :)

[lean grove]

Yuuuuuuup lmfaoo

[eager minnow]

Wish I could to that. My rack is a bit too tall.

[lean grove]

Efficient use of space kinda

[dry bolt]

My rack is almost as tall as me so that’s kinda an issue.

[eager minnow]

I should've gotten a closed rack when I bought.

Should've just got a used one. Instead of buying a severely overpriced new one.

[dry bolt]

I have the option to buy a 27U enclosed rack but idk.

[lean grove]

Hey why not build your own? 😊

[eager minnow]

You don't want me as a handyman.

[dry bolt]

I put too much in mine, as much as I’d like to.

[lean grove]

Fair enough

[eager minnow]

Also yeah my rack weighs a shit ton...

[lean grove]

Yeah understandable. It can handle quite a bit of weight, but there’s a limit

[dry bolt]

After being used to my solid steel MiddleAtlantic rack I think I’d break majority of wooden racks.

[lean grove]

Loll and this is firewood too so not the strongest of woods

[eager minnow]

I gotta get a perma standing desk if I wanna slide my rack under my desk.

[dry bolt]

You know yours looks really good though, kinda makes me wanna build my audio racks out of wood, it wood fit the vibe better tbh.

[lean grove]

You’d at least need to be using oak to stand a chance then

[eager minnow]

@lean grove how much heat is it putting out?

[lean grove]

Total being pulled from the wall is about 170w

[dry bolt]

Damn your rack idles lower than the server I’m building currently lol.

[eager minnow]

Ah.

[lean grove]

It’s just enough to heat the room it’s in to a comfortable temperature with the door closed during winter temps and open during summer temps

As soon as the gpus kick in it pulls a lot more ofc

But I kinda tried to make it somewhat efficient

[lean grove]

what are you building?

[dry bolt]

Flash array NAS.

[lean grove]

Nice nice

[dry bolt]

i9-7980XE and some wildly inefficient HBAs and hopefully 2 GPUs.

Tesla P4s probably.

I don’t have infinite lanes to work with sadly.

[lean grove]

Oof yeah those both don’t really make it too efficient

[dry bolt]

Yeah nope :(

[lean grove]

P4’s are nice though and those are doable in power consumption

[lean grove]

This looks great by the way

[dry bolt]

Ye, I would go with RTX 4000s like you did in the future except I’m cramming this thing in a 2U enclosure.

[lean grove]

Yeah I wouldn’t go for rtx 4000’s if I were you to be honest. They only have 8 gigs of vram a peice and are generally kind of expensive for what they are. The only thing they have going for them is that they have rtx 2070 ish performance in a single slot form factor

[dry bolt]

That’s what I’d be looking at.

I’m using 3 HBAs which causes me to run out of slots quickly.

[lean grove]

Yeah that adds up quickly

It’s nice that you are able to use Xeon boards tho

Hey why was my message deleted??

Can that be undone?

I think the bot did it because I added something and the message got too long

[muted musk]

oh how unfortunate, pcmrbot didn't like the line breaks

Managed to pull the fiber optic signal straight from the street! Everything from the ISP is now ditched, even the converter that usually is installed where the fiber enters your house (they strongly encouraged me not to touch that one but oh well).
All this makes for just 4ms ping from my pc to the other side of the country and back, which is pretty great and way better than before. 7ms on wifi (using 3x TP-Link Deco X50's).

General specs:
Router: Ubiquiti EdgeRouter 4
Switch: Mikrotik CSS610-8G-2S+IN
Top machine:
Threadripper 2920x (need the lanes and single threaded speed, not really the cores)
4x 16GB 3200mhz CL16 RAM
2x Quadro RTX 4000 (I use these for LLM's, transcoding, and occasionally a gaming vm)
4x 2TB random HDD's (soon to be upgraded, I'm running out of space!)
2x 512GB WD_Black SN770 SSD's (storage cache, LLM and gameserver storage)
2x 256GB Kingston KC600 SSD's (mainly docker storage)
1TB random HDD (storage for the surveillance cameras)
PCIE Google Coral TPU (person detection for the cameras)
Mellanox ConnectX-3 10GbE card
Unraid OS
Bottom machine: (this one is my workshop pc, not a server)
i7 6700
8GB offbrand RAM
512GB unknown Micron NVME
Offsite machine: (last picture, used for offsite backups)
Intel N100
1x 8GB SODIMM RAM
2x 256GB random NVME SSD's (mainly docker storage, 1x 2280 and 1x 2230 in a m.2 wifi slot)
3x 4TB and 1x 2TB random HDD's
PicoPSU
Unraid OS

Behind the door is an APC 750VA UPS

The rack is custom built using wood and rack profiles, and it's made to fit under an Ikea Alex drawer desk (70cm high, which is perfect for my workshop/office as it now holds the desk up. And don't worry, it's also bolted down to prevent it from tipping over when I pull the server out.\

I hope you like it!

@lean grove if you want to reattach the photos, here's your text

[lean grove]

Thank you!!