What did you all waste money on for your homelabs this holiday discount season? I snagged a rosewill 4u case for $80 on Newegg. Currently my NAS is a guest in a ryzen based proxmox host in a silverstone case with a ton of 3.5 bays. Gonna move an older supermicro server mobo into that silverstone case and make it a dedicated bare metal NAS that I’ll probably only run a few hours a month, and then build a “new” game/vm server with the ryzen parts in the rosewill case. That way I can run my more demanding stuff without also having to power a bunch of spinning rust all the time. Yes the ~70 watts for 24/7 HDD’s nags at me that much; don’t try to tell me how long it will take me to make my $80 back 😂
What projects did y’all find for yourselves?
Honestly I feel like the people on the truenas and openzfs forums are chronic over-optimizers. When they say you MUST use small drives and NEVER spin them down and ALWAYS use ECC ram… I take it with a grain of salt. Trust that multi-disk redundancy with raidz2
That’s said my ZFS arrays are all 3 and 4tb drives just because I built my first NAS 10 years ago and most of the og drives are still in there.