Here’s a full write-up on the first year of my Home-Lab: https://piefed.social/post/1002037
Since then I’ve now added networking and a self built 10" rack, I was undecided between MikroTik and UniFi but ended up going UniFI and I’m quite happy.
Building the 2020 Aluminum profile 10" server rack was a lot of fun and I learnt a lot of lessons along the way like:
- Cutting perfectly straight with a hacksaw is a bitch and nearly impossible (or at least for me) would not recommend.
- Buy a table/mitre saw or have them pre-cut
- Tapping threads yourself is a lot of fun, and I would recommend doing it yourself, worked perfectly every time.
- Bolt length and head size matters, even 1mm matters (that’s what she said)
It’s janky I know, but I love it and it’s a lot less Janky than when everything was just on my desk
Next step for me would be to buy a 3D Printer (Sovol S6 Plus Ace) and print custom racks for everything
Shout out to https://www.motedis.com/ for the Aluminum parts, they can cut and tap all the parts to your desired length if you don’t want to bother with that, but that’s half the fun (and frustration)
Congrats on the setup. Is that proxmox I see in the background?
Jip everything is running in proxmox, except Home-Assistant I moved that to bare metal
How/to what are the drives below connected to?
They are connected to the ODROID H4+ mini PC above with SATA
How did you connect a 3.5 externally? Sata to mini PC and power from the PSU?
The thing that looks like a PSU is actually a ODROID H4+ it has 4 SATA and power connectors, so I just power it from that.
It’s all in excruciating detail here: https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-h4-plus/
You can also have a look at my old post: https://piefed.social/post/1002037 that might give you a better idea.
It’s perfect!!!
Good work man, that’s a nice setup. Loving the custom frame.
Nice build. We use a lot of aluminium profiles at work for prototyping. We also have a mitre saw ;)
You can also have polycarbonate panels made for cheap to have a more finished appearance at the cost of ventilation and ease of access.
Thanks yea that’s the plan I’ll add those to the side and something on top later on.
Either that or I’ll 3D print a honeycomb mesh
That’s pretty slick.
What are the HDDs plugged into? Would you mind posting some photos of the back?
Right now the back is literally empty, I’m planning on moving all the power cords there soon.
The HDDs are plugged into the ODROID H4+ (the thing that looks like a PSU)
Check my linked post and you’ll see what I’m talking about
Thats awesome. And really tidy, ive only just started making something like this and it already looks like this:
Damn thats a clean setup 🔥
I absolutely love that zip-tie mounting solution, it’s the kind of thing I wish I saw in more homelab setups.
Thanks I love the jank, one day it’s going to be all neat and tidy and I’m going to miss the mess that it used to be, it adds character.
Looks much more professional than mine, I just built my case from wood added room for enough disks and placed it into a kitchen cabinet.
And it’s a nice touch fastening the disks with zip ties.
Fully custom? Sick! Where do I get one? 😅
i like how your hdds just chilling there.
Thought it was so much bigger until I saw thoss HDDs 😀
Oh yeah, it’s on a table, not the floor
dude i thought that thing was the size of a closet😭😭
It’s new 14" drives
Here’s some things for scale
(AA Battery)
Nice! I want to build a rack too but want to fit a regular ATX board to fit older / cheaper hardware. So it has to be at least 304mm wide, probably 400mm
