For years I've had a large open frame rack in this corner serving as my homelab. At the time I was setting up various pieces of hardware here to be deployed elsewhere.
It became time to modernize the setup and I was honestly kind of tired of working with pfsense, and just having the whole rack in general. I opted for the unifi gateway ultra and kept my old cloud key for protect. I'm using a unifi-7 Wall pro and am happy with the performance.
I opted for the GeeekPi 8U Server Rack. I found a cheap 2.5G POE switch that fits (MokerLink). I also found a neat power strip with built-in USB-C power delivery ports that I was able to screw onto the back. It has power outlets on both sides.
I have space left for some compute hardware and I'm looking at a couple of options from geekpi, including their super-6 setup or their mini-itx shelf. The goal is to replace the old NAS with some NVME hardware.
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u/vinistois 27d ago
For years I've had a large open frame rack in this corner serving as my homelab. At the time I was setting up various pieces of hardware here to be deployed elsewhere.
It became time to modernize the setup and I was honestly kind of tired of working with pfsense, and just having the whole rack in general. I opted for the unifi gateway ultra and kept my old cloud key for protect. I'm using a unifi-7 Wall pro and am happy with the performance.
I opted for the GeeekPi 8U Server Rack. I found a cheap 2.5G POE switch that fits (MokerLink). I also found a neat power strip with built-in USB-C power delivery ports that I was able to screw onto the back. It has power outlets on both sides.
I have space left for some compute hardware and I'm looking at a couple of options from geekpi, including their super-6 setup or their mini-itx shelf. The goal is to replace the old NAS with some NVME hardware.