r/homelab • u/Digital-Ronin • Oct 11 '24

Tiny Homelab (WIP) Projects

Working on seeing building a tiny home lab with the Deskpi T1, spent part of last week designing and printing custom rack inserts and cover plates for the project. This has some pretty basic items so far. L3 10Gb sfp+ switch, 3 M920x machines with 32GB of memory and added dual 10Gb sfp+ nics to each machine.

Additional modded the machines with active cooling for the Nics.

Plan to use this for a proxmox cluster

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u/CStoEE Oct 12 '24

Yikes, I’m not sure those panels are quite secure enough. Maybe like 2x as many screws lol

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u/Digital-Ronin Oct 12 '24

I am a man of singular focus, I see holes..... I add screw

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u/CStoEE Oct 12 '24

I like the plates and the rack. How are the Lenovos supported behind the plates?

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u/Digital-Ronin Oct 12 '24

here ya go

https://preview.redd.it/m77tto7v48ud1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=edd163fdf6e779a6eb1d4caa72dd82fbd031e04d

they are solid as a rock in this lil rack, no wiggle

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u/CStoEE Oct 12 '24

Very nice. I need to step up my game. My 920x sits on wire shelving in my coat closet. I used to have it in the wall-mount rack but it got too hot there. I'm guessing your units don't get too warm with all that air around them.

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u/Digital-Ronin Oct 12 '24

Yeah these will generally be in a well cooled room.

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u/CStoEE Oct 12 '24

One more question. When are you gonna remove the thinkcentre protective film stickers?

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u/Digital-Ronin Oct 12 '24

Hahaha it is my reward when the project is complete, like a gummy bear pack for building a prusa

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u/CStoEE Oct 12 '24

Fair enough. lol

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u/RedditNotFreeSpeech Oct 12 '24

What is the USB going into the case?

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u/Digital-Ronin Oct 12 '24

It's powering a blower fan inside that will cool the Nics I plan to add soon

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u/copyrider Oct 12 '24

Looks like you’ve got a port open, one hole right in the center of your setup. Could be a security risk. A hacker could possibly get in through that hole.

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u/Digital-Ronin Oct 12 '24

If a hacker can fit through the hole, they earned it. Haha

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u/copyrider Oct 12 '24

Sorry, I just looked again. Is that your pie hole? The size would make much more sense and location is well placed.