Homelab and Server Rack Tour - 2024 Edition

Would you be interested in custom (Designed and Made In House!) Rackmount Vanity Plates? Let me know here, and I'll look at adding them to the store.

do you have more information on the drive bay inserts for that those black 2U servers..... i just picked up one of those boxes recently but it has a faceplate on it. would be nice to have access there

I think it is the not cleaning it when it is open. I mean functionally it's not at a point where things are being blocked.

might want to tone-down the starlink remote access. Elno doesn't think people should be doing that and you risk getting your service cut off or the cost increasing to their "roam" package prices, which will make all your electricity bill reductions completely meaningless. Or maybe you're on Roam already and just expensing it.

I priced out the 45 drives hardware and some of the other stuff and I think that recreating that rack and networking is going to run something close to $30k. That's not really "hobbyist" territory.

Certainly need some vanity Rackmount Plates, ill keep checking the store 😁

Hi. I just leave this here : Your 350Wh would cost you 1441 Euros @ my old kWh price and on the new price it will require 1747 Euros to run this rack for a whole year... A single kWh costs me 0.57 Euros or 57 Euro cents and i rent a house so theres no chance to install solar panels with batteries :D

u should get a little air purifier for the garage

ooofff almost 6 years on the same batterys that's bad, I do mimium every 3 preferably every 2 years for the ones that the batterys r cheap

I see the Bat'leth is always ready to grab in your server room. Being truly prepared to defend you HomeCloud is very important! 😇🤪😬

Nice, though the dust is a bit anxiety inducing.

Please note that dust significantly reduces the efficiency of heat exchange. It can also cause electrical arcing that can damage static sensitive components.

Your single year worth of server rack costs is the same as 2 months of my ENTIRE home's usage in the UK. Mental how cheap your power is. We're sitting at around 27p (.43c)/kwh

Jeff, that was a nice video tour.
I have a Poweredge T110 ii running 16gbs ram and an E3-1260L as my main homeserver.
(I used an optiplex 780 usff, a 9020 usff, and thanks to your channel an updated 4thgen mobo from ali-express)
I have one question: where'd you get the hat?

I am sitting here in Britain, in winter, my mind blown that you'd want to throw heat away! :-)

Here in Seattle I had the choice between Comcast "1Gig" and Centurylink 1G Fiber. Centurylink 1G Fiber is the winner hands down with 1Gbps up and down. Real world speeds are 800 Mbps down and 900 Mbps up. I attribute the 900 Mbps up to most people not uploading much of anything but comes in handy when transfering backups to S3.

For me, you have an enterprise at home! 😂

I read methlab

If you have so cheep electricity just mine crypto lol

Hi Jeff. You mentioned ZFS mirror on consumer NVMe SSDs. I've had really terrible performance with them, as in, terrible random write speeds when using them as VM/CT disks. What are your secrets to setting up a performant ZFS filesystem on them?

that thing looks dusty will filters or having that cabinet properly make a difference?

nice!

Oh RJ-45, Oh RJ-45, how do we wire you?

Great Video! Thank you very much!

Silly question... would NFSv4 push more data from the Storinator to your workstations? Windows doesn't like it, of course, but what about Linuxy or BSDy systems?

Is that a Klingon Bat'leth on the side of the rack?

While the dust triggered me, I still realize it's probably all fine. We had an HP Gen6 DL380 across the hall from an automotive salt spray test lab with shared plenum space. Server ran for 12yrs without issue despite being fully oxidized inside from salt exposure. We distributed the hard drives among the team as momentos.

Jeff is probably the leading cause of my buying more rack gear.

now that my 12U is full of networking gear, UPS, and 12 thin clients in a cluster, I find myself looking at 22U cabinets and full size full depth racks, disk shelves, and used epyc and threadripper stuff on ebay. and those erying boards are quite tempting for playground usage.

What about current Internet connectivity a.k.a. IPv6?

Would like to hear more about the 100Gb switch. You provided detail on three of the four ports but I missed detail on the fourth port. Specifically, your experience with 'Q' part of the port that you've broken out into four SPF(+) ports. Why you broke it out - I can imagine that, given your 10G gear, but your experience doing so: what you learned, do differently "next time", router and bandwidth impact, etc.

For those like me that are unfamiliar with the QSFP28 port it's a ... this is from Googling "QSFP28 breakout" ... it's a "Quad" port with a capability to be "broken out" to four individual connections, as Jeff appears to have done in his rack.

You're telling us a lot about VMs, racks, small factor devices and other cool things - we love it! But can you tell us some about security of the network, subnetting, wi-fi, control and other cool stuff? Or this is not your point of interest?

"Still uses lead acid batteries". That's still kind of the norm for UPSes, the lithium based batteries for a UPS are kind of a new thing and are still pretty niche.

Jeff, if you were to ever upgrade/ replace those 1U Erying TigerLake 11800H servers, what would you go with? My question is geared towards homelab use.

I would love for you to clean it. =)

What I like the most about the rack is the Bat'leth on the side...

Have you tested Nvidia DPUs with your 100Gb?

Cool shirt, does it say T568B somewhere on it?

happy year craft computing

Nice Rack Jeff, needs a little cleaning, but considering its in your garage it looks positively pristine. You are motivating me to get this sort of thing for my attic (don't have a garage or basement available) and get to learning things.

Full rack tour, doesn't mention the Bat'leth hanging on the side of the rack! lol

So you're limited to 1000/35. In Australia, NBN Co has in the last 12 months or so released 1000/50 plans and has recently dropped the price for it too. Having such high speeds are just amazing.

Also, Yes, Starlink is definitely great for backup purposes or even a primary over a 4G connection in rural and remote areas.

nice rack

unfortunately i also have cable internet about the same speeds as you. Hopefully they expand the fibre network.
You can get 25gb over fibre in Switzerland

love the t658b shirt

you pay 7c per kwh?! 😦 in my area i pay 39c per kwh!😵

Damn it you're electric is cheap that idle power would cost me £900 a year and that's going up soon ...

Cool stuff. As usual i am as casual a computer user as they come. By that i mean i do not even need the consumer i9s lol. Still like listening to people talk about tech lol

Love the t-shirt, does the rear have cross-over??

Thanks. Inspirational.