Perfect 1L Homelab in 3 Upgrade Tiers Project TinyMiniMicro

Since folks are asking a lot about costs. The idea was just to give folks an idea of what is possible and there is a lot of variability here.
- ~$500-$515 for the base we used, but there are options for less than that.
- Maybe $25-30 for an extra 16GB DIMM. 64GB is like $150-200, 96GB $279
- $29 for the 2.5GbE NIC. $129 for the 10Gbase-T NIC,
- SSDs from $50 to $400 each depending on speed/ capacity.

I think all-in on the top-end config we would have spent around $1.5K

Guys, if you want proper capacity for virtualisation, old server hardware is the way to go. V3 Xeons go for £25 with DDR3 RAM to support it at the same low prices, and they're still perfectly capable machines. Servers have a supported lifetime of 5 years across the board, but most happily work for double or triple that time, and because they're designed for power and stability, you will find plenty of reliable and replacable components (most can be replaced with the server running, aka hot-swappable).

Nice video. Unfortunately the HP Elite Mini 600 G9 are too expensive compared to a custom solution from scratch. For the same cost you can build a better solution if you dont care put it 9n a 1U rack

only $10,000 in Australia

I bought the hp elite mini 600 g9 i7 but big but it came with ddr4. why is yous ddr5?

Thank you very much for the video.
But I have a question, if you really want to make a home server with this equipment, how do you put more HDD in it without it being through USB?

Again, thanks for your videos.

I had g0 as a server for years! this thing just works - probably the only good thing HP ever made!

Sometimes I wish I didn't have a toxic fear of buying from eBay lol.

Hp has them on sale right now 60 percent off

With this setup I am really curious how many VMs are you running on a single system? I know it depends on VM resource allocation, but on average what would you say on the amount of VMs? I was thinking if it was possible create a Nutanix Community edition cluster with 3 of these to learn with. Or just use something like Proxmox / XenServer, Vmware. BTW, thank you for the videos!!!! Most helpful

Jesus 500 dollars for Homelab, I guess not this Christmas

hi, link for 10gb doesn't works

Damn dude ease up on the coffee. This is not that exciting.

hello, where can I buy such a network module mini 10gbe?

The links are not working.

Does it run Crysis?

You can use VLAN and still achieve an out of band / isolated / management network over a single NIC.

Would be a nice little pfsense/opnsense router.

To all those cannot afford $4k pc labs,, to STH, thank you. I taught myself about PC since 9, I laarned a lot . So can you. W e may not asked for help, but we c an still learn. This video is a prime example, he could ie and make you buy ov erpriced BS he does not. God bles you sir. Saved my pockets and other s.

How power hungry is this?

How would you change the setup for unraid, 10gbe, and 8 nvme drives Gen 4 cooler.

Guess will wait for this to trickle down

If yall are looking for storage or a server you could just use an old gaming pc and maybe upgrade it slightly

..All I wanted was to change The Battery.

I've been seeing alot of confusion about the T-suffix Intel processors.
The lower TDP and Boost Clock only really matter when the system is being fully utilized as it won't change your idle powerdraw and that's what I would expect most homelabs to be doing majority of the time.

Awesome video! I’ve been trying to figure out a mini PC just to have around as a back up I’m a Macbook Pro guy I have a M1 with 64 gigs ram and a 2 TB hard drive. But I’m very new at all this. Why would you need to Internet connection ports? That is something I just don’t understand. Maybe you could cover that sometime thank you.

With Arch Linux being a rolling release, it should work great with such device. I use RichARCH btw. With it I was able to get Arch Linux up and running simply and quickly.

I want this with 100% passive cooling!

stressful to watch. horribly fast speaking. useless video angle switching between two levels. had to turn it off before reaching 40% durration.

Can you please suggest a mini pc with low power consuption but allow me to upgrade to install promox, home assistant, ...?

Yes @ServeTheHome, But could you build several more of those and combine them into you own personal Home Supercomputer?

how will I be able to get the USB-C PD Flex IO? Any links or leads? Any idea how much would that be?

It's really cool, but wicked expensive IMO.

Thanks for the video, as usual an inexhaustible source of ideas.
Can I ask you a question? In light of all your experiments so far, would you use an HP Elite unit 600 or 800 for your home proxmox?
Is it just a matter of money or have you found better performance in the 600 G9?
Thanks

lol that tiny pc is going to cook itself if it tried to use the non-efficient cores

add 2 of those nvme i reckon the system wont survive a 24hr torture test

money on one of the ssds failing first

Thanks for showing people these computers, as home users generally do not get access to them.

Very nice build for those who have the money to buy it.

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Great content! .. Now.. What do I need to get this connected to a JBOD of 24 x 3.5" 20Tb SATA HDDs?

In my country, I pay $20 for electricity, and my country is the largest in the world 😁😁

Pi's are a sick joke on consumer culture that only a complete goober would waste their money on in 2023. A couple of years ago they might have been worth it but not now.

CEPH + Kubernetes

Hi, your canal is Great, Can You Pls. investigate the possibilities of replacing the M.2 WIFI card with an adapter to use a tiny M.2 SSD for booting, so the other slots can be used as data stores not to waste precious storage just for a tiny boot SSD needed e.g. for ESXI or Truenas.
Is this possible with such a device: Mini PCI-E 2 Lane M.2 NGFF 22*42 SSD To 52pin mSATA Card Adapter C4Z9 ?
Maybe you can show this possibility on different models you already presented here.
Many THX for you affords

I'm coming to this video rather late. So if this question has been answered in one of the 400+ other comments my apologies.
... Does this particular have the BIOS password problem that you mentioned in the other hp units?
i.e. some of the earlier units allowed you to bridge two pins in order to physically reset the bios password on a previously used machine. Some of the later units (perhaps this G6?) didn't have those pins. So on those later units if the prior owner had set the BIOS password, you were locked out of the bios. Which meant if you upgraded the machine it would not boot.
... And the story you told was that HP wouldn't help you reset the bios password and wanted $600 for a new motherboard.
Does this unit have that problem?

You literally never say what the computer is that you are putting hundreds of dollars into.

I use a 9400T Lenovo 720q for years, 16Gb of ram, 1To ssd, proxmox ve and it run at 1% CPU power most of the time.
I also got a weaker Nuc 7100u that run pretty much the same spec, 16Gb, 512Gb Nvme and it use 7W of power average (24h average = 24*7 Wh

Why did you not use ECC memory?

That's OK for commercial application, but what application for home use of this device with price 500-1500usd? If you could doesn't mean you should. Do you have 10G wan port at home?