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Re: Building a Home Lab Beginners Guide

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Post by j45 » Mon, Aug 31, 2020, 6:39 PM UTC

boring_twenties wrote: post #173

j45 wrote: post #152

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Avoid real servers. Intel NUC, and tiny pcs from lenovo, hp, dell etc are perfectly serviceable for this purpose.

AFAIK, none of those support ECC RAM, making them eminently unsuitable for serious storage.

ECC ram is definitely a consideration. I've appreciated having it when it was around.

The needs of each homelab can be different though. Some homelabs don't need to be that serious from a power/noise/energy cost perspective just to get ECC, unless there is an explicit benefit from it.

Making do without ECC can be perfectly possible for some or most portions of a homelab.

Re: Building a Home Lab Beginners Guide

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Post by j45 » Mon, Aug 31, 2020, 10:49 PM UTC

lallysingh wrote: post #160

j45 wrote: post #148

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It's less about the employer and some choosing to take an interest in expanding their skills in this way.

This is a terrible use of money for expanding your skills. Rent the machine time for peanuts, learning even more relevant skills simultaneously.

It's rarely peanuts by the time you architect a set of machines to work together.

I'm not sure if you've looked at techs like Portainer or Proxmox but the unit economics are pretty compelling compared to a cloud vm.

Re: Building a Home Lab Beginners Guide

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Post by tuananh » Tue, Sep 01, 2020, 9:27 AM UTC

boring_twenties wrote: post #173

j45 wrote: post #152

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Avoid real servers. Intel NUC, and tiny pcs from lenovo, hp, dell etc are perfectly serviceable for this purpose.

AFAIK, none of those support ECC RAM, making them eminently unsuitable for serious storage.

most of the synology units are not using ECC. should we avoid them?

Re: Building a Home Lab Beginners Guide

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Post by poglet » Sat, Sep 05, 2020, 7:30 AM UTC

mrslave wrote: post #100

poglet wrote: post #76

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My recommendation would be the Fractal Design Node 804.

People actually put a mini-ITX in a micro-ATX case?!?!?! faints

I build my partner a PC in the Node 304(not 804). I made a mistake on the number, sorry. The 304 can only fit 6 3.5" HDD's.

I recommenced it if you only require 6 HDD's, and I don't put ITX into ATX cases haha. I've always had fun building ITX systems.