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A homelab is whatever you use to tinker and try things out A homeserver is whatever you use for stable workloads
Both can coexist at the time
Next level is a home datacenter, and that's where you have a 24 U rack or something that shouldn't fit in an apartment You have a homedatacenter!
I'm if you can post more about the hardware software and network config really curious about your setup, it looks well thought
Ummmm my 375 TB array and 256 GB of GPU is a home lab thank you very much. I’ve only got 18U of 24 filled!
Side note: how should we brag about gpu power? What is the proper metric/terminology?
I think kWh is the correct unit :)
Those are rookie numbers, I'm measuring GPUs by the amount of nuclear reactors required to power my setup.
So far it's at 12 and I've made Jensen's christmas card list.
The growth has been purely organic. I cannot say any of it is really planned ahead of time. I use 16U vertical rails for each rack, and then build a cabinet around them that works for the space it is in, e.g. 32U in the cat bathroom rack, which is 16U side-by-side with another 16U. The arcade cabinet rack is 16U technically, but I only have 6U of rails in there, as the other space is pull out drawers to make it easier to work on the workstations without having to deal with cabling issues. 16U at the RV.
For permanent infra, I tend to buy new, because I want that extended warranty and am not interested in buying somebody elses problem. For projects, it is a mix of ebay finds and road-side or ewaste center salvage. I don't watch TV, but I probably own more 55" 4K TVs than any one person I know, because I salvage them (people in big cities throw out all sorts of stuff with minor electrical faults) and then turn them into personal projects, e.g. a touchscreen cat toy, a waterfall ring toss game in the door of an art gallery, a virtual window.
Some days it feels like everything is held together with string and chewing gum.
I was wondering on the sheer amount of monitors you had in your diagram....that helps explain it. Tip of the hat to you and your setup!