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Maximum ghetto home server (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by NoughtE@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Specs are slightly in flux right now, but basically it's an HP ML310e Gen 8, with a random HDD cage on top for 4 additional drives, and a bunch of fans zip tied to the front to cool the 6 internal drives. Oh, and a little 7" display stuck to the side which I'll get a stats readout on soon.

Xeon E3-1220 v3, 32GB ECC RAM, 40TB array, Quadro M2000.

It's running Unraid and I use it as a media server (Plex, Sonarr, Radarr) as well as a backup for my music and video production, and general stuff (NextCloud, Photoprism).

The machine itself is so stupid and hacked together, built entirely from used parts I got cheap on ebay. It's probably cost me £300 max, all in.

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[-] Sluggles@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

High quality zip ties with a reasonable amount of the machine actually inside the case. I would say this is above average.

[-] curioushom@lemmy.one 7 points 1 year ago

Right? The zip ties even have trimmed tails!

[-] errer@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

If it’s stupid but it works, it’s not stupid.

[-] Subverb@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

LOL, it has a case. How is that ghetto?

[-] NoughtE@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Well... Most of it has a case.

[-] theolodger@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

Doesn’t even have an external psu? Not ghetto enough…

[-] Cobrachicken@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

You had me with "Specs are slightly in flux right now". Beautiful.

[-] steadfast@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

If it works, is safe, and is maintainable, there’s no shame in it. My unraid box has some unorthodox drive mounting too.

[-] bootyberrypancakes@lemmywinks.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

I have those same drive cages sitting in my spare parts closet lol. You can jam it into 3x 5.25” bays sideways!

How is the display connected?

[-] ma11en@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Double sided tape

[-] NoughtE@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

You know it. The second best way to make things attach to things after zip ties.

[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Nice. A Thermaltake CoreV21 has a LOT of space inside for drives amd other hacks

[-] eric5949@lemmy.cloudaf.site 2 points 1 year ago

I might move my server to my CoreV21 at the end of the year when I upgrade my desktop. Love the case but it's a bit large ot have on top of my desk.

[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

It is huge. it fills the full volume of an Ikea Kallax opening, I have mine hanging out so wires in back against the wall have some room...plus some airflow. if the Kallax wasn't against a wall it would slide back all the way. It has plastic feed about 12-15 mm tall (I think) feet are about 3mm too tall so I trimmed them. But on thingverse somebody made a 3d printer model for replacing them.

[-] eric5949@lemmy.cloudaf.site 1 points 1 year ago

I know lol, I went from a little baby Silverstone itx case to this monstrosity. I love the modularity of it but it's just so big. I don't think I'll go back to itx, it's honesly a fucking pain, but I'm probably getting a slimmer case.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Beautiful. Very respectful fan job. That said, there's not enough cardboard in your setup. Here's inspiration:

[-] dandroid@dandroid.app 2 points 1 year ago

I literally just bought a monitor just like this. It just arrived. It's still in the packaging.

I had my Linux install die on me (due to my own stupidity, but I recovered it), and I needed to move my monitor from my gaming PC into the closet where my server lives. This isn't the first time I've had to do something like that, and I was over it. So mini monitor for $40 it is!

[-] DrunkenHarold@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Does anyone have tips on how to source large capacity hard drives on the cheap? I was a silly and didn't set my storage to be redundant and I'm trying to rectify that.

[-] randombullet@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I've bought about 600tb from server part deals.

Just got 20tb drives for about 250ish. Higher than what I wanted to pay, however $12.5/TB is good enough for me.

[-] NoughtE@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I've found used SAS drives really cheap. Averaged around £6 per tb.

[-] DrunkenHarold@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

Really now? Whereabouts are you looking for deals like that? Are there any limitations concerning sas drives, other than the different connection? Can they be pooled with SATA drives?

I should probably google all of this haha

[-] NoughtE@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I just grab them off ebay. SAS drives are almost exclusively used in enterprise servers, so there's fuck all demand for them on the used market. Buy a cheap PCIe SAS controller card and you're good to go.

I use Unraid which doesn't care at all about what types of drives you use, so you can mix and match into one huge array. I have 8x SAS and 2x SATA drives in one array.

[-] DrunkenHarold@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

That's a lot of good information, thank you!

[-] Nightsoul@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Untill I read the specs I though you might have built a custom router in there as well with the antennas

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