Well I just added the patch box to my cart…😂 Great setup though. As someone who’s had a home lab since 2001 I’m finally moving my gear to a rack this month and putting a 5950x with one of those nice Asrock Rack boards in to replace my ancient dual xeon workhorse. Your video last year was great motivation to get it all planned out. Just had to bank some vacation time to do it! 👍
Just put my new UDM Pro in last night. Picked it up over Black Friday to replace my USG 3P. I run a USW-Aggregation and a Netgear 28 PoE Prosafe downstairs. Then upstairs with 10 gig over cat6 to a Qnap 10gig and a Zyxel 8 PoE for cams. For servers i run a Poweredge T440 - proxmox and T340 - truenas. Also recently added a synology ds 216j for cameras. And for wifi an AC Pro and U6 Lite.
BTW, I use to live in DFW area and had to pay those huge electric bills until I learned to switch to a new introductory offer from a different electrical provider every April. Now I live in Chelan County Washington where we still have hot summers, but with an electric rate of 3.3 cents per kilowatt hour, I have never paid more than 68 dollars for a month of electricity in a 2800 square ft home. But the tradeoff are our high gas prices in Washington. Everything balances out. Soon we'll be offering 10G Home Network with XGS-PON so maybe we'll have an advantage here then.
I got the udm se and added the 10g aggregate switch for some more 10g ports. i'm so happy i migrated away from consumer grade home wifi and have a proper 10g backbone now
I'm sure you will get comments how Unify is too expensive or pfsense is better but honestly the point is to use what works for you, same with Synology. Always nice to see what other people are using when budget/space/power is less of a concern then my apartment dwelling self, even though I'd go different with a lot of it it's a pretty nice setup. Funny enough I also have a 7302 for my workhorse server and am really liking Epyc (replaced a V4 Xeon) and plan to get a HL15 (just the chassis) when I rebuild my NAS next year.
This is way over my budget for homelab. I have classic pc with i3-13100, 64GB ddr4, lsi 9207-8i, 4xWD Red SA500 2tb in raid5, one 16tb, 2x nvme for os and VM's, 2x2,5gbit nic, one dumb 2,5gbit switch, Tp link AP eap225.. Virtualized Opnsense and few services. This homelab in video is so big I can't afford in years. 😁
Id love to see a detailed network diagram complete with what is running on each machine regardless if its running as decoration or not, if its on the network, it gets diagrammed
@@RaidOwl I prefer a diagram to look at and study for learning and seeing how to scale it to my much smaller network and get ideas... I download peoples network diagrams for this purpose....
Could you please do a walktrough on your Proxmox & Truenas setup? Im interested to know how you pass trough the disks or if its better to run Truenas bare metal.
II wanted to ask kind of the same question. For your Proxmox VM's ( not the one in the cluster) do they use disks shared from the TrueNAS and how do you pass them.. ISCSI, Samba or other ?
Great to see this! I have the components for my first real server build on order right now and im very excited! Can you tell me how your UPSs are set up? Do you just split the devices between them, or do they work together in anyway?
How can I do IT too? I would like tó stream some games from an other place 11:21 And how can I make a backup server to another server, and the real question is, how can I connect them? And I love your server setup
Ok it's been a few months since I had my gripes about your love of cloud storage and here we are....all this backup via a NAS and things. Also this comes at a time when my OneDrive is frozen (like all of middle Tennessee) and Google decided that I was never gonna retire on my sexy feet pics in my Google Drive and deleted half of my docs, pics, code snippets....etc. Now usually I'd like 😑...waiting for an apology however instead I will settle for you doing a deep dive into your backup/NAS setup as I certainly am considering one from Synology but I'm mediocre at network hardware so it be greatly appreciated for a tutorial. 😊👍🏻
Love the setup! at 0:03 Seconds what rack mount did you use for you 1U Synology? I have been having a tough time finding something like that. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
I ditched the home lab thing about a decade ago. I’m fortunate to own a company that has a large datacenter presence and I can leverage that for anything I might need. The power and cooling costs at home would make me cringe.
Awesome lab! Do all 3 of those 1u servers pull less than 100 watts combined? My Xeon-D1540 system (X10SDV-TLN4F) pulls around 60 watts alone, but maybe that's due to the power supply I'm using and/or the attached drives. I'm using a full size Super Micro ATX power supply in a 4u case. Maybe I need to put my board in the 1u enclosure you have with proper sized power supplies.
Hi Raid Owl, Thank you for sharing your insightful video on your high-level IT home lab. I appreciate the detailed walkthrough. I have a few questions about your configuration (Network/Storage/GPU usage): Q1) Networks: - Regarding the Mellanox ConnectX-3 40Gbe choice, could you elaborate on why you opted for it when none of your switches are 40Gbe compatible? - I'm curious about your decision not to implement network aggregation for high availability and high-bandwidth throughput, and instead, using VLANs for workflow segregation (e.g., distinct VLANs for storage, users, applications, clusters, administration, cameras). What influenced this choice? Q2) Storage: - Have you considered transitioning to ZFS? If so, do you plan on incorporating NVDIMMs for the SLOG (ZIL destination)? - Additionally, why haven't you employed NVDIMMs for Ceph metadata or Ceph journal to enhance SSD storage endurance? Q3) GPU Usage - The inclusion of an RTX2070 Super GPU in your server caught my attention. Is this for VDI capabilities? - Have you explored using AMD or Nvidia Pro Graphic Cards, and if not, what led to your preference for the RTX2070 Super? - Lastly, have you experimented with configuring VMs using vGPU and attempted migration between nodes? I'm eager to understand your thought process behind these choices. Your expertise in the field is truly valuable. Best regards, Frederic (From France)
Thought this was a ubiquity ad for a second. 🤪 I'm not committed to a networking ecosystem because that makes things expensive when I can buy random 10Gb SFP+ switches for under $100.
That patchbox system almost cost as much as some of the old active matrix patching systems of a couple of decades ago. You are probably too young to remember those failures.
@@RaidOwl When Avaya owed Systimax, they had a matrix patching that made absolutely no logical sense, but some people bought it because it was Avaya Systimax and they could do no wrong. The product sucked. I would be interested in finding the full specs on your system because flat patch cords are incredibly noise/interference causing devices as you increase frequency.
700 watts? in California that would cost me $271.00 per month just for the electricity ouch, but love the setup only dream I could run something like this.
I saw your AT&T gateway might have been in that closet where all your house runs terminate? Can you do a video discussing how you’re getting your internet connection back to the UDMP WAN ports?
Has Xfinity rolled out increased upload speeds with mid-split in your area yet? I'd be interested to see if upgrading to a mid-split supported modem would get you more upload bandwidth.
@@RaidOwl Mine maxes out at 1200/40 here in Northern California. Good thing I am using bonded connection from the Motorola modem to my homebrew PC running pfsense.
Hey. I can't find anything about a Rosewill Rails. And I've come across your video which actually shows that you have one, sadly you haven't talked about it. So simple way to ask this, where did you find the rail or what is the name. Btw loved the tour!!!
Are you sure 'te' didn't learnt any hungarian in any of your previous lives? Te, hehe! Lovely rack setup. Wish I could have the space for such thing to build.
It’s an awesome home lab setup, fun to look at and dream about, and a great assert for building your channel. Love your style, so coming up with the great content. Maybe add some advice on how to build a lab like yours without first signing the divorce agreement. ;-)
Ciao Brett, I am considering to move my small 2 e3 cluster to something new and with more power, could you post the power consumption of you server? I am interest in the xeon-d solution and the epyc. Ciao e saluti dall'Italia ;)
The d1521 systems are great and only use about 30W each during normal load, but they don't have any spinning drives. The EPYC system has 12 spinning drives, a gpu, a 40G NIC and an m.2 card, so it pulls a good bit more at around 200-250W. I believe before I added everything and just had the CPU and some drives it sat around 100W (I didn't stress the cpu much at all).
great to see your rack filled! this time next year, i think you might have two racks! btw, whats your average power consumption on the epyc server man?
@@RaidOwl Some ideas that may or may not fit into the next video: What UPS do you use? How are you backing your TrueNAS stuff up to your Synology environment? How do you do your offsite backup? I backup a synology Unit from Central TX to my brothers place in Dallas via Tailscale, curious how other people do it!
I have specific vids on a lot of those things. I will definitely cover all of it in the software video, but it will be mostly high level since going into that much detail on everything in my lab would be a whole Netflix mini series lol.
The HL15 is a beautiful piece of hardware. If you have the cash for the chassis you won’t be disappointed. But there’s nothing wrong with rosewill either, it’ll save you some coin.
@@RaidOwlNoob question. Do I need the LSI Logic Controller Card 05-25600-00 9300-16i to hook up all 15 drives to my mother board since I'll be doing chassis only?
i could see you going to 40g or 100g - going dual nas would be an appropriate upgrade and what about ai - you have no power sucking multi gpu boxes, also going to nvme arrays would be nice - you should have a good 2024 lined up and upgrades aplenty but generally pretty good on bw and power savings - instead of adding more nodes to cluster why not just make another cluster and then if you need you can spin up a vm instead of adding a node - you want a bit more redundancy and better faster networking to the extent it is feasible but mostly on the ws and to your nas (dual nas - this is the core and going to 100g you could do point to point - no switch needed, i would say that is the place where going to 100g from 25g would save you time- and it adds up - think about doing a opnsense box with fast cards - i think adequate pci lanes is the issue but you want to think bottlenecks for internal net
Not very loud at all. Installed low voltage adapters on the fans since the d1521 doesn't really get hot enough to warrant that much power/noise. I talk about it a bit in the video I made on setting them up.
@@RaidOwl I'm curious how long it'll take before you need functionality that'll let you switch back to pfsense. But I guess that's the nature of a home lab. An ever changing digital island.
This dude is my spirit animal. Just like a good workshop, most of the hobby is building the workshop. It's why every youtube homelab person seems to have a pile of gear that is almost all totally idle. I don't need half the gear I've got, but where's the fun in that!
Ehh, the UI is dope, the hardware is efficient, and the ecosystem is nice. If thats worth it to you then cool, if not then theres hella other options out there.
$800 USD for 1 switch? And you think this is the 'perfect' switch for a HomeLab? My entire network costs less than $800 INCLUDING the fiber/Cat6a in the walls. And it does WAAAAY more. I have 1G, 2.5G, 10G, 40G, .11ae, .11ax, PoE, SDN, layer 2/3/*, and all the fun alphabet-soup protocols for learning REAL networking. All this 'luxury' HomeLab gear really muddies the water. HomeLab is about hacking and learning on real equipment. What experience does a 'premium' plug-n-play switch get you?
This guy, this guys. Thanks for all the dope vids the past year. Started home labin the past year and applying learned lessons at work.
Heck yeah man, thank you! Enjoy the ride
I have a thin client as my server but don’t wanna flex. 😎
You have to have a serious cable OCD level to spend that much money on the patch box 🙂 Looking forward to seeing what you do with the HL15.
Yeah for real...but theres a market for it!
But wait what about the closet? 😂 which is bad for cable OCD
I feel this too. I cannot sit down at a workstation or be around bad cable management. That's a hard no. 🙅🏻♂️
Well I just added the patch box to my cart…😂
Great setup though. As someone who’s had a home lab since 2001 I’m finally moving my gear to a rack this month and putting a 5950x with one of those nice Asrock Rack boards in to replace my ancient dual xeon workhorse.
Your video last year was great motivation to get it all planned out. Just had to bank some vacation time to do it! 👍
Just put my new UDM Pro in last night. Picked it up over Black Friday to replace my USG 3P. I run a USW-Aggregation and a Netgear 28 PoE Prosafe downstairs. Then upstairs with 10 gig over cat6 to a Qnap 10gig and a Zyxel 8 PoE for cams. For servers i run a Poweredge T440 - proxmox and T340 - truenas. Also recently added a synology ds 216j for cameras. And for wifi an AC Pro and U6 Lite.
Solid setup there!
I love that you walk through your setup with the diagram
That's hardware heaven for me, heheh. Awesome setup man!
BTW, I use to live in DFW area and had to pay those huge electric bills until I learned to switch to a new introductory offer from a different electrical provider every April. Now I live in Chelan County Washington where we still have hot summers, but with an electric rate of 3.3 cents per kilowatt hour, I have never paid more than 68 dollars for a month of electricity in a 2800 square ft home. But the tradeoff are our high gas prices in Washington. Everything balances out. Soon we'll be offering 10G Home Network with XGS-PON so maybe we'll have an advantage here then.
Yeah I got solar panels installed over the summer so that helps
I got the udm se and added the 10g aggregate switch for some more 10g ports. i'm so happy i migrated away from consumer grade home wifi and have a proper 10g backbone now
Great stuff!
Woah, thanks so much Mike!
I'm sure you will get comments how Unify is too expensive or pfsense is better but honestly the point is to use what works for you, same with Synology. Always nice to see what other people are using when budget/space/power is less of a concern then my apartment dwelling self, even though I'd go different with a lot of it it's a pretty nice setup. Funny enough I also have a 7302 for my workhorse server and am really liking Epyc (replaced a V4 Xeon) and plan to get a HL15 (just the chassis) when I rebuild my NAS next year.
Yeah if everyone had the same setup it'd be boring!
Great to see you powering your rack with solar.
This is way over my budget for homelab. I have classic pc with i3-13100, 64GB ddr4, lsi 9207-8i, 4xWD Red SA500 2tb in raid5, one 16tb, 2x nvme for os and VM's, 2x2,5gbit nic, one dumb 2,5gbit switch, Tp link AP eap225.. Virtualized Opnsense and few services. This homelab in video is so big I can't afford in years. 😁
Id love to see a detailed network diagram complete with what is running on each machine regardless if its running as decoration or not, if its on the network, it gets diagrammed
Full network walkthrough coming early next year
@@RaidOwl I prefer a diagram to look at and study for learning and seeing how to scale it to my much smaller network and get ideas... I download peoples network diagrams for this purpose....
This is awesome... I'm strugling with a rpi4 bricking each time light goes out 🙃... I may get at least a cheap ups
Could you please do a walktrough on your Proxmox & Truenas setup? Im interested to know how you pass trough the disks or if its better to run Truenas bare metal.
II wanted to ask kind of the same question. For your Proxmox VM's ( not the one in the cluster) do they use disks shared from the TrueNAS and how do you pass them.. ISCSI, Samba or other ?
Great to see this! I have the components for my first real server build on order right now and im very excited! Can you tell me how your UPSs are set up? Do you just split the devices between them, or do they work together in anyway?
They are completely separate. I just have them kinda split to provide even distribution.
Love the Frasier reference!😜
way tooo nice setup, but Bang for buck left the chat with unifi saying hi
lol yeah I definitely don’t claim my lab a “bang for buck” setup that’s for sure
everyone's HomeLab is unique just like the individual it belongs too.
big true
How can I do IT too?
I would like tó stream some games from an other place 11:21
And how can I make a backup server to another server, and the real question is, how can I connect them?
And I love your server setup
Good luck with the InWall POEs. Had three of them and they ALL overheat.
fingers crossed
Ok it's been a few months since I had my gripes about your love of cloud storage and here we are....all this backup via a NAS and things. Also this comes at a time when my OneDrive is frozen (like all of middle Tennessee) and Google decided that I was never gonna retire on my sexy feet pics in my Google Drive and deleted half of my docs, pics, code snippets....etc. Now usually I'd like 😑...waiting for an apology however instead I will settle for you doing a deep dive into your backup/NAS setup as I certainly am considering one from Synology but I'm mediocre at network hardware so it be greatly appreciated for a tutorial. 😊👍🏻
Love the setup! at 0:03 Seconds what rack mount did you use for you 1U Synology? I have been having a tough time finding something like that. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
Hey! I’m just using some 1U universal rails. amzn.to/3NslPa9
I ditched the home lab thing about a decade ago. I’m fortunate to own a company that has a large datacenter presence and I can leverage that for anything I might need. The power and cooling costs at home would make me cringe.
Holy Money Bags.
It's pretty break even at this point
@@RaidOwlBe right back. Going to start my tech TH-cam channel.
That's a lot of kit! Have you worked out the total power draw for you whole home lab (including AC)? Your power bills must be pretty high!
About 650W not including the AC. During the summer the AC adds about 500-600W when it’s running.
Awesome lab! Do all 3 of those 1u servers pull less than 100 watts combined? My Xeon-D1540 system (X10SDV-TLN4F) pulls around 60 watts alone, but maybe that's due to the power supply I'm using and/or the attached drives. I'm using a full size Super Micro ATX power supply in a 4u case. Maybe I need to put my board in the 1u enclosure you have with proper sized power supplies.
Oh nevermind I see in your other 3 node ProxMox cluster video that it is indeed all 3 nodes under 100 watts. That's awesome!
Hi Raid Owl,
Thank you for sharing your insightful video on your high-level IT home lab. I appreciate the detailed walkthrough.
I have a few questions about your configuration (Network/Storage/GPU usage):
Q1) Networks:
- Regarding the Mellanox ConnectX-3 40Gbe choice, could you elaborate on why you opted for it when none of your switches are 40Gbe compatible?
- I'm curious about your decision not to implement network aggregation for high availability and high-bandwidth throughput, and instead, using VLANs for workflow segregation (e.g., distinct VLANs for storage, users, applications, clusters, administration, cameras). What influenced this choice?
Q2) Storage:
- Have you considered transitioning to ZFS? If so, do you plan on incorporating NVDIMMs for the SLOG (ZIL destination)?
- Additionally, why haven't you employed NVDIMMs for Ceph metadata or Ceph journal to enhance SSD storage endurance?
Q3) GPU Usage
- The inclusion of an RTX2070 Super GPU in your server caught my attention. Is this for VDI capabilities?
- Have you explored using AMD or Nvidia Pro Graphic Cards, and if not, what led to your preference for the RTX2070 Super?
- Lastly, have you experimented with configuring VMs using vGPU and attempted migration between nodes?
I'm eager to understand your thought process behind these choices. Your expertise in the field is truly valuable.
Best regards,
Frederic (From France)
Pretty suspicious that 45Drives would come out with a nice service chassis right around the time I started looking for one... I'm on to them...
They're watching...
Do you use optical display port from your main pc up to your office? Any other hardware for connections like mouse, keyboard, etc? (Bluetooth?)
Great setup, and ofcourse you needed that Enterprise swtich, I mean, you'd be crazy if you didn't have it 😂
Question: Would running solar in your home be economical?
I do run solar
Thought this was a ubiquity ad for a second. 🤪 I'm not committed to a networking ecosystem because that makes things expensive when I can buy random 10Gb SFP+ switches for under $100.
That patchbox system almost cost as much as some of the old active matrix patching systems of a couple of decades ago. You are probably too young to remember those failures.
Lol you got me there
@@RaidOwl When Avaya owed Systimax, they had a matrix patching that made absolutely no logical sense, but some people bought it because it was Avaya Systimax and they could do no wrong. The product sucked. I would be interested in finding the full specs on your system because flat patch cords are incredibly noise/interference causing devices as you increase frequency.
700 watts? in California that would cost me $271.00 per month just for the electricity ouch, but love the setup only dream I could run something like this.
I saw your AT&T gateway might have been in that closet where all your house runs terminate? Can you do a video discussing how you’re getting your internet connection back to the UDMP WAN ports?
A long Cat5e cable through the attic
Ah ok! I’ve seen some cool options using dedicated VLANs to transport the wan traffic over the existing cables, so wasn’t sure. Thanks for the reply!
This is dope
You’re dope
What brand are those blue patch cables
Monoprice. I added a link to them in the description.
how did you do your network visualization? which tool did you use? looks cool
Draw.io
Are you looking to unload the Netgate appliance? :)
Possibly. Shoot me a message on my discord.
Has Xfinity rolled out increased upload speeds with mid-split in your area yet? I'd be interested to see if upgrading to a mid-split supported modem would get you more upload bandwidth.
I only pay for the 100/20 down/up package, but from what I understand they still max out at like 1000/40 here.
@@RaidOwl Mine maxes out at 1200/40 here in Northern California. Good thing I am using bonded connection from the Motorola modem to my homebrew PC running pfsense.
just curious, what did you use to replace pfSense haproxy tho? it was a pretty good tool
Nginx Proxy Manager
Hey. I can't find anything about a Rosewill Rails. And I've come across your video which actually shows that you have one, sadly you haven't talked about it. So simple way to ask this, where did you find the rail or what is the name. Btw loved the tour!!!
Hey! I added a link in the description to the ones I'm using :)
Thanks@@RaidOwl
Are you sure 'te' didn't learnt any hungarian in any of your previous lives? Te, hehe! Lovely rack setup. Wish I could have the space for such thing to build.
good stuff.. Can't wait for the HL15 content.. what Xeon did u go with?
The one it ships with, Bronze 3104. But I may already have something to replace it with ;)
@@RaidOwl That's what i meant... I have full build coming and will most likely upgrade too...
So cool
You forgot the $200 lab, or is it already in the trash?
I mean I wouldn't really consider it part of the lab as I'm not gonna be using it
As much as I loved this, I need to find a video of how to set up a home lab when all you've got is about $50 and a bunch of laptops...
It’s an awesome home lab setup, fun to look at and dream about, and a great assert for building your channel. Love your style, so coming up with the great content. Maybe add some advice on how to build a lab like yours without first signing the divorce agreement. ;-)
Step 1: Remove all then pens in the house
Ciao Brett, I am considering to move my small 2 e3 cluster to something new and with more power, could you post the power consumption of you server? I am interest in the xeon-d solution and the epyc. Ciao e saluti dall'Italia ;)
The d1521 systems are great and only use about 30W each during normal load, but they don't have any spinning drives. The EPYC system has 12 spinning drives, a gpu, a 40G NIC and an m.2 card, so it pulls a good bit more at around 200-250W. I believe before I added everything and just had the CPU and some drives it sat around 100W (I didn't stress the cpu much at all).
@@RaidOwl thank you very much for the quick reply 👍👍 [edit. and info of course 😅]
great to see your rack filled! this time next year, i think you might have two racks! btw, whats your average power consumption on the epyc server man?
Without all the pcie cards it was like 150 with the drives. With everything it’s around 350
First! Great video, get that second bit of content out of a software video :) love the vids dude, youre awesome.
Workin on it!
@@RaidOwl Some ideas that may or may not fit into the next video: What UPS do you use? How are you backing your TrueNAS stuff up to your Synology environment? How do you do your offsite backup? I backup a synology Unit from Central TX to my brothers place in Dallas via Tailscale, curious how other people do it!
I have specific vids on a lot of those things. I will definitely cover all of it in the software video, but it will be mostly high level since going into that much detail on everything in my lab would be a whole Netflix mini series lol.
Yo how’d he know my hands were there!! 6:18
Looking to upgrade my 5 bay Silverstone server chassis so I can support more HDDs. Would you recommend the Rosewill chassis or the HL15?
The HL15 is a beautiful piece of hardware. If you have the cash for the chassis you won’t be disappointed. But there’s nothing wrong with rosewill either, it’ll save you some coin.
I think I'll save up the coin for the HL15 so I have something to stare at while I sit there alone petting my precious.
@@RaidOwlNoob question. Do I need the LSI Logic Controller Card 05-25600-00 9300-16i to hook up all 15 drives to my mother board since I'll be doing chassis only?
what's the first step to overcoming an addiction..... when you have aircon curtains for your rack.....
I’m fine. I could quit anytime. I swear…
How do you draw the network diagram?
That’s just part of the Unifi UI
i could see you going to 40g or 100g - going dual nas would be an appropriate upgrade and what about ai - you have no power sucking multi gpu boxes, also going to nvme arrays would be nice - you should have a good 2024 lined up and upgrades aplenty but generally pretty good on bw and power savings - instead of adding more nodes to cluster why not just make another cluster and then if you need you can spin up a vm instead of adding a node - you want a bit more redundancy and better faster networking to the extent it is feasible but mostly on the ws and to your nas (dual nas - this is the core and going to 100g you could do point to point - no switch needed, i would say that is the place where going to 100g from 25g would save you time- and it adds up - think about doing a opnsense box with fast cards - i think adequate pci lanes is the issue but you want to think bottlenecks for internal net
How loud are the 1u servers you built?
Not very loud at all. Installed low voltage adapters on the fans since the d1521 doesn't really get hot enough to warrant that much power/noise. I talk about it a bit in the video I made on setting them up.
What prompted the switch from the pfsense
Just heard good things about unifi so I wanted to try it
I don't really understand the switch from pfsense to unifi. That's a serious downgrade in capabilities 🤔
Cuz I make TH-cam videos and want to have real experience
@@RaidOwl I'm curious how long it'll take before you need functionality that'll let you switch back to pfsense. But I guess that's the nature of a home lab. An ever changing digital island.
9:54 they exist????
how's RTX4090 feels in RM51 ? any temp issues? Thank you
Nope it runs great!
I was going to like but I accidentally dropped it... (I hope I matched your jokes haha)
This dude is my spirit animal. Just like a good workshop, most of the hobby is building the workshop. It's why every youtube homelab person seems to have a pile of gear that is almost all totally idle. I don't need half the gear I've got, but where's the fun in that!
EXACTLY!
I feel a little fragile with my little UDR 😀
*gently leans in and whispers* It’ll be okay
Jealous of your large home lab-we have a mini one and hope to upgrade to a larger one 😊
It’s a slippery slope haha
After seeing Raid owls home network. Mine looks like a clown built it. But I guess I am happy with it.
Don't worry man, I put way too much money and time into mine. If yours works and gets the job done then thats all that matters 👍🏼
Ugh now i also want a patchbox ...
hello there fellow person that is bad with money
Hi friend!
😍
i saw people spending money for a patchbox and dont do a good cable management
I wish the included management ears fit on my rack :/
You should checkout the Firewalla Gold or Firewalla Purple
bro is dropping double my rent on a patch box 😭😭😭
$300 rent??? In this economy???
God why... I mean why spend $2 for a patch cable when you can get 24 for 600 and a huge ugly cartridge
It’s cool and useful
You went from a good router to not as good router. I would like it better if you have a pfSense router. But, you do you.
The life of a tech TH-camr. Go watch last year's video and you'll be happy haha.
surprising how much unifi gear is a waste of money
Ehh, the UI is dope, the hardware is efficient, and the ecosystem is nice. If thats worth it to you then cool, if not then theres hella other options out there.
only $300 I'm poor
$800 USD for 1 switch? And you think this is the 'perfect' switch for a HomeLab?
My entire network costs less than $800 INCLUDING the fiber/Cat6a in the walls. And it does WAAAAY more.
I have 1G, 2.5G, 10G, 40G, .11ae, .11ax, PoE, SDN, layer 2/3/*, and all the fun alphabet-soup protocols for learning REAL networking.
All this 'luxury' HomeLab gear really muddies the water. HomeLab is about hacking and learning on real equipment.
What experience does a 'premium' plug-n-play switch get you?
Lmao you’re such a weenie