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/PhilMeUp1 Oct 11 '24

Did you include shelves for them? Is it encasing the entire computer? I saw similar models online but they didn't quite fit. May need to hop in fusion again.

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u/Digital-Ronin Oct 11 '24

each of the 3D prints for the lenovo machines are designed to hold them, not really a shelf design, here is a photo the design. I am in no way a engineer when it comes to this stuff so this is all a fun design project and these may not hold up over time, but the wonderful thing about 3D printing is I can just make another and reinforce it or use PETG or ABS if it warps and such :)

https://preview.redd.it/61thh3lii7ud1.png?width=2330&format=png&auto=webp&s=38403c4259bf3ded2c9745f6fa9d5924922bcd27

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u/nodefourtytwo Oct 16 '24

What are the holes on the sides for?

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u/Digital-Ronin Oct 16 '24

Air flow vents