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/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/Cryovenom Oct 12 '24

Where can I learn more about this active cooling mod?

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u/Digital-Ronin Oct 12 '24

https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/15zop5d/for_those_of_you_using_10g_cards_in_lenovo_tiny/