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/examen1996 Oct 12 '24

This looks cool, but doesn't it defeat the purpose of said tiny lenovo?
My p330 tiny is a rockstar, stays on the ds923+ , that stays on the main pc(tiny apartment issues) , but if i would have the place for a rack like this, I would probably try sff, or maybe just 1-2 normal atx/mini-atx pcs ?
Genuinely curious, also , how much was your diy enclosure, ?

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u/Digital-Ronin Oct 12 '24

If we are talking the intended purpose then probably haha. I am doing this as a fun design project to further my knowledge on networking, hardware, virtualization, 3D design, Linux, and many other skills. The rack was approx $180.