Homelab hardware is an often much discussed topic. I am not here to tell anyone which hardware is better. There are much better individuals out there to tell you which hardware is better than others. Instead I am here just to highlight the hardware that I have in my homelab or just in my home in general.
The first computer I will discuss is what I had originally planned to be my main computer: (this plan changed)
It is now in the process of transferring data but will find its final resting place as a virtualized place for 2 VMs for two of my kids
Case: offbrand generic case
Motherboard: MSI MPG X570 Gaming Edge Wifi
RAM: Patriot Memory Viper Steel RGB DDR4 16GB 3600 MHz (X2)
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X
Hard Drives: 500gb NVME WD-Blue, and 4TB HDD (ebay bulk order)… these will change as I move data around
The second computer (lab computer):
Dell T7810
CPU: Dual Intel Xeon e5-2699 V3
RAM: 32gb X 4 (125gb) 2133MHz
Hard Drives: A hodgepodge of them
The third computer is what I am currently using as my main computer:
Dell T7810
CPU: Single Intel Xeon e5-2699 V3
RAM: 16gb X $ (64gb) 2133 MHz
Hard Drives: 4 1TB NVME for game storage, 1 4TB HDD for other file storage
The fourth computer I have is for my other two kids:
Case: Antec Performance Series P101 Silent Black
CPU: Intel Xeon e5-2683 V3
Motherboard: X99 generic brand
RAM: 16gb X @ (32gb) possibly also 3600 MHz
Hard Drives: 2 X 128gb for proxmox boot, 2 X 2TB Seagate Laptop HDDs, 1 1TB NVME for VM boot drives
The fifth computer for this post is my rackmount chenbro:
I bought this after watching one of Craft Computing’s Youtube videos from a long time ago.
I do not remember the specs but it is nothing fancy, something like a quad-core processer and 16gb of RAM but the most impressive part is that it can hook up 12 drives and I did not understand LSI Raid cards at the time.
The chenbro server will eventually be my unraid NAS server and a few other applications like game servers.
The last set of computers are a proxmox cluster:
HP Prodesk 600 G2 Mini (X3)
CPU: Intel i5-6500T
RAM: 16gb DDR4
Hard Drive: Each has 1 1TB SSD for boot and 1 1TB NVME for CEPH storage
This set of computers is for the small applications that I do not want to go down like PiHole, Bookstack, Homepage, Home Assistant (core), and Proxmox Datacenter Manager