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?
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Posted a lot of deals on r/hwdeals
Bought the Ryzen 5600U MomentPlus but it hasn’t arrived yet unfortunately :(
Bought 18 TB Storage from Best Buy, which was great but I’m not even utilizing 2% of the storage at the moment.
Hah, I got the same one as you. Got both a 2U and 4U.
Got myself NVME SSD read cache for my DS918+. Hoping to improve speed when browsing media libraries in apps like Jellyfin.
I got 2x1000v/800w USPs for $145.
Some light strips to put in TM server rack for $9
A 24port patch panel and keystone Jacks for $35
A keyboard drawer for $50
And a rack mounted Fan for $100.
My 2024 New Years resolution is to make my server rack not look like a piece of shit.
I got an open rack and some accessories 😆😆
I only lost $100 last weekend. I realized recently that the NVMe that I thought was in my server was actually a 2.5” SSD. Not sure how I forgot about that…. Then I upped my Ram from 16 to 32 (maxed out) to allow room for additional VMs.