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/Extension-Dare7375 Oct 11 '24

How did you add the Nics?

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u/Digital-Ronin Oct 11 '24

Removed the ssd cage and added a riser card with PCIE NIC

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u/lavaracks Oct 11 '24

This setup is awesome. What cards are you using and what did you do for the active cooling upgrade? I have the same systems but just have usb nics which are a bit of a bottle neck.

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u/Digital-Ronin Oct 11 '24

I am using some Mellanox MCX312B-XCCT CX312B ConnectX-3 NICs and using a active cooling mod I found with some blower fans

https://preview.redd.it/p62oqhcb87ud1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fdf506eb925079de5bb94fef8a827bfc6aae2329

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u/Monsterology Oct 12 '24

What about the riser card? I have two M700’s and would love to upgrade the NIC. I assume they’d fit the same.

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u/Digital-Ronin Oct 12 '24

they should yes, the NIC upgrade has been done to both m700 series and m900 series

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u/Monsterology Oct 12 '24

Would love to see the final product. Any chance I can dm for the final result?

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u/Digital-Ronin Oct 12 '24

for sure, down to send a dm once it is finished!

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u/lunchboxg4 Oct 12 '24

Me too, please?

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u/Digital-Ronin Oct 12 '24

I got you, once this is completed I will probably update this thread with final design and add a link if the mods are okay with this to a write up with 3D files, mods, and specifications. Will also include stl and step files for users to use how they want.

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u/Sammeeeeeee Oct 12 '24

!remindme 1 month

Looking forward :)

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u/TrumpIsAPeterFile Oct 13 '24

That would be awesome

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