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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/Milk_Truckin on 2024-01-24 03:30:53+00:00.
I'm considering consolidating my home lab into one or two machines max and my main desktop
When I decided I wanted to try getting into home lab, it was basically only out of curiosity without much of an actual need. I watched a bunch of YouTube videos and gathered up pretty much anything I could find with an Ethernet or USB port thinking the more I had the more options for experimenting I would have.
Fast forward a few months and basically all I've learned how to do was get extremely frustrated in a hurry lol. I had no previous knowledge of anything computer related Beyond basic skills needed to run a normal desktop. I thought I would pick things up quick like I usually do but didn't happen. Usually when I get a few minutes to mess with it I spent three quarters of that time trying to figure out where what I'm looking for is actually hosted and how to actually access it. Then most of the leftover time goes into me trying to figure out which sort of commands that machines CLI wants.
In hopes of wasting less time trying to navigate through tons of machines and wasting a ton of power and space I'm considering eliminating both of the r710s and laptops and just keeping the 7700x as my main desktop with the 7950x as the taking over everything home lab while running proxmox.
As an alternative I've also considered making the 7950x machine my main desktop using the 7700x dedicated to truenas and adding a r730xd 36 core for docker and anything else that I wouldn't want to run on proxmox.
Thoughts?
Current landscape: Ryzen 7700x 8 core main desktop
Ryzen 7950x 16 core win 11 pro/hyperv > truenas scale
Lenovo 4core laptop proxmox gui w/ nvme ssd storage
Msi gf63 8 core changes almost weekly
R710 (a) 12 core? 600gb local storage, Proxmox hosting lan gaming server currently out of order while I try to figure out if it is possible to recover the VM of the gaming server after I messed up the lvm structure blindly following YouTube videos
R710 (b) 12 core? 600gb local storage was running win server 2019 but just switched to proxmox while I figure out the other r710.