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Black Friday Homelab Projects (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What did you all waste money on for your homelabs this holiday discount season? I snagged a rosewill 4u case for $80 on Newegg. Currently my NAS is a guest in a ryzen based proxmox host in a silverstone case with a ton of 3.5 bays. Gonna move an older supermicro server mobo into that silverstone case and make it a dedicated bare metal NAS that I’ll probably only run a few hours a month, and then build a “new” game/vm server with the ryzen parts in the rosewill case. That way I can run my more demanding stuff without also having to power a bunch of spinning rust all the time. Yes the ~70 watts for 24/7 HDD’s nags at me that much; don’t try to tell me how long it will take me to make my $80 back 😂

What projects did y’all find for yourselves?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Upgraded the router that firewalls all of my stuff from the other adults in the house, and the replaced router (gl.inet Mango) is now free for various shenanigans.

Bought a pack of 8266 boards with various led and breadboard accessories to play with, and an air quality sensor that will hopefully end up sending data over the home automation vlan.

Spent enough on cloud storage to get the '3' of my 1-2-3 backups done for all of my photos and videos, not automated yet but that is on the list, plus picked up a few very inexpensive usb storage drives for friends.

Also bought a heart rate sensor for cardio training, and keep thinking of ways to sniff data off of it for analysis, though that's probably not the greatest idea...