If you had to start your homelab from scratch... (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by diffraa@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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For reasons unexplained, you have no homelab hardware, but $1,000 in cash earmarked for the purpose.

What are you buying, what are you installing on it, and how is it different from what you've done previously (i.e. lessons learned)?

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[-] JackalopeJumpRope@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Everyone here recommending tinylabs, but what if you need lots of TB's? Is there a solution then? I have a Microserver Gen 8 (which is plenty powerful enough) but need way more space, and was going to buy something that can fit 10+ Hard drives...

[-] vasveritas@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

There's lots of solutions.

Cheap:

But a full tower PC case with room for 10+ HDDs. Lot of options like those from Fractal, CoolerMaster, etc.

Enterprise (expensive):

Buy a JBOD with a backplane that you plug all your discs into then plug that into a server.

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