I would almost be more interested in a fan chiller plate OR maybe a little raspberry pi mounting solution... Still with your branding/ design, but with a more practical use... MAYBE even one with a small patch panel insert if we can find one for cheap enough.
Any product with dimensionality or that requires manufacturing likely won't come out of my shop for quite a while. I'm a one-man-band with decent tools, but I'm also very expensive per hour ;-)
There's something for everyone in here. Low TDP VM hosts that cost less than $400. A 64-Core Epyc build that was $20K when fully built. High end NAS, low end NAS, 1Gb PoE, 100Gb Fiber...
@@CraftComputing Your videos served as base for when I graduated as a network engineer from Uni and started working, and after a career change and opening my own business, I still reference to your content for upgrading and modifying my network.
May I suggest you try an air purifier with a particle filter? It could substantially reduce the amount of dust, at least it works really well for me! I use a relatively cheap one IKEA sells.
It's a 600sqft garage that houses wood working and laser engraving tools. It's going to be a bit dusty. Easier and more cost efficient to blow out the servers once every 6 months.
@@CraftComputing Every six months? My thought was seeing that dust, that it might keep you busy with every 2-3 months. But hey, if 6 is good enough, I'm fine with it. Considering you busy doing other dusty works there, seeing it in this particular time, it's not that bad.
@@CraftComputing No, no. I didn't mentioned anything about being offended, or anything like that. I just told you what thought was in my mind. It was a perception on periods of dust cleaning. You answered as no performance hit on it. Great. No balloons popped in your hand, and I am lucky, I don't have a rack sized infrastructure. :P Dust still a factor, haha.
For your UPS batteries, you might look into 12V LiFePO4 cells. They have integrated BMS's that work with lead-acid chargers and whatnot while still having longer runtimes and much-much better deep-cycle tolerance than lead-acid batteries. They're a bit more expensive than lead-acid packs, but you don't need to replace the whole UPS unit to benefit from the improved chemistry. I replaced the 4 lead-acid packs in my Eaton 9130 rack UPS, and they've been rock-solid for several years, despite frequent power blips and outages in my area.
I considered it, but the UPS is only there to prevent brown-outs and surges, not really for any kind of uptime insurance. For $240, I should get another 5-6 years out of the Pb battery packs, and that's plenty.
I did this with my APC SMT1500rm2u, and eventually upgraded to a SMT2200. The only thing to be aware of with APCs is they have an unusually high float voltage, and it will shorten the life of the LiFePO4 cells. Luckily with the SMT and older APC units you can enter a programming mode with an FTDI serial adapter and adjust the float voltage to within spec for the new batteries.
Good to see your rigs, interesting Aircon for the rack . I have my rack in the basement. I use it to dry clothes. The temp doesn't get above 20c. Interesting power load. I'm at 400w with 4 servers (2 xcp-ng, soon to be proxmox, pfsense and truenas scale 24 drives) The power cost is 35p (UK price) something like $0.04 So I built a Victron system. That can power the house if there's a blackout. But the main point was to access cheap electricity overnight at 7p. So I charge up the 82kWh battery (3 phase 230v) then run the house off grid for the day. It is also the whole house UPS system.
You're incredibly lucky! I pay between $0.32/kwH and $0.36/kW, so I have to be really picky about what equipment I need to keep running and what I have to shut down right when I'm done using it.
Your single year worth of server rack costs is the same as 2 months of my ENTIRE home's usage in the UK. Mental how cheap your power is. We're sitting at around 27p (.43c)/kwh
Nice Rack Jeff, needs a little cleaning, but considering its in your garage it looks positively pristine. You are motivating me to get this sort of thing for my attic (don't have a garage or basement available) and get to learning things.
Here in Seattle I had the choice between Comcast "1Gig" and Centurylink 1G Fiber. Centurylink 1G Fiber is the winner hands down with 1Gbps up and down. Real world speeds are 800 Mbps down and 900 Mbps up. I attribute the 900 Mbps up to most people not uploading much of anything but comes in handy when transfering backups to S3.
I loved your lab tour. I live in the northeast where electricity definitely does not cost $0.07/KWh, more like $0.20. I have FiOS “gigabit” which provides 950 down / 880 up. I’ve had it for three years and it has not once failed, though our power here is extremely reliable. Take from that what you will :)
Currently have to pay the equivalent of US$0.47/KWh here in the UK. Really makes me want to replace my home server with something more power efficient 😅
I have two racks in my house. The NAS is using 1kW and my other one has almost all my networking hardware at close to 200W. 350W with everything sounds insane!
Great to see how things are evolving with the home lab! I managed to set up 100Gb networking at home too and agree it’s pointless. I can get around 50Gb real-world file transfers using ksmbd (the kernel-side implementation of SMB which supports RDMA using RoCE) on Linux for the file server and using Windows 11 Pro for Workstations which supports client-side RDMA using RoCE (all using PCIe Gen 4 x4 NVMe SSDs on each end with fast file systems like XFS on the server rather than ZFS and NTFS on Windows). Would recommend looking into this as I get much better speeds than using regular Samba and lower CPU usage. Configuration isn’t too hard as well - ksmbd can basically just be enabled on most modern Linux flavours and is essentially a drop-in replacement for Samba. And on the Windows side (as long as it is the Workstations version or some other enterprise versions I think work as well) it all should just work with default settings (at least with Mellanox cards) if things are configured correctly on the server side. Because this uses RoCE you can just use regular Ethernet networking without needing to play around with Infiniband. But, as you say, you basically never need these sorts of speeds with anything you do in the real world as there are usually lots of other bottlenecks. Would therefore only recommend max 25Gb or 40Gb if using older cheap Mellanox ConnectX-3 cards, for home use.
Helpful tip...on your monitor, press the right bottom button, then the - middle button three times to auto configuration the bottom button again and 75% of the time it works 100% of the time to auto adjust the screen.
Jeff is probably the leading cause of my buying more rack gear. now that my 12U is full of networking gear, UPS, and 12 thin clients in a cluster, I find myself looking at 22U cabinets and full size full depth racks, disk shelves, and used epyc and threadripper stuff on ebay. and those erying boards are quite tempting for playground usage.
Man, i love this. It's down and dirty with money savings where needed and maybe a real nice thing in there to keep the dream alive! Cheers with a Sierra Nevada from the beer county capital of the world, North County San Diego!
My parents just got Starlink. Previously they had a 0.7mbps connection. They only stream tv/movies and surf the web. It has been an amazing improvement for them. The other option sucked so, so much that even with the occasional blip, it's still worlds better.
I'm so happy with my 10gb network, it's well overkill for my needs, I have to basically stop anything else on the server to reach the limits, but boy does it feel good to know it's there, and also look at.
i just changed out 85 batteries at the school where i work including one of those little 1500VA ones, a few 5000VA ones, and mostly the 2k-3k APC units...all in all i had to install a chevrolet caprice classic worth of lead....i then put in a zabbix server for monitoring them as its just sooooo much better than the Ecostruxure stuff imo and watches our printers, servers, switches, etc., now also
I just got my first ever server rack : an old Dell Poweredge R710 dual Xeon E5649 that is actually running on Proxmox 8.1.4. I must admit that it as been flawless and more than enough for my needs. I mainly use it as a game server host (running multiples game servers at the same times) for me and my friends. I love it! I think I'm gonna build a server rack with a nas. I mean, once you taste it, you want more I guess... I also plan to max it out before starting to spend money on something newer. I want to put dual x5690 (which they are very cheap on ebay), 144GB of RAM (yes, I will use it fully) and fill up the 8 slot SAS with nas hdd for backups. (The VMs are actually running on a nvme plugged on a PCI-E adaptor, even tho it's old pci2.0 it still reach up to a 1gb/s wich is great for my heavily modded fabric minecraft server). But in fact, I'm gonna fill up the PCI ports with even more nvme that I'm gonna software raid to reach even more.
This 12:00 is the reason why I decided to go with just a regular 19 inch monitor + keyboard + mouse and then rack mounted it. It takes up more space in my server rack. I am looking for a swinging monitor rack mount that would accommodate a regular monitor but can fold up and stick inside the rack. No luck so far.
While the dust triggered me, I still realize it's probably all fine. We had an HP Gen6 DL380 across the hall from an automotive salt spray test lab with shared plenum space. Server ran for 12yrs without issue despite being fully oxidized inside from salt exposure. We distributed the hard drives among the team as momentos.
@@CraftComputing Oh yeah garage dust is fine but I regularly go into industrial paint applicators where the dust is like printer toner levels of bad for stuff. I have "plant only" clothes. My home network is "suburban dad" simple since I don't want to manage it when I get home. PiHole is the most complicated thing on it. Actually now that I think about it you're probably fine since your target audience is buying stuff off eBay and putting it in used racks or something from StarTech. WifeArgro will naturally limit the noise/heat.
For the UPS I believe that you can just replace the batteries individually saving money or purchasing better quality or longer lasting batteries then perform a load-runtime calibration. Thats what I do with my UPSs, BatteriesPlus has Duracell batteries with a larger rating for the same size battery. Sure can notice the difference when it comes to runtime.
Love that you did the proxmox builds with those erying boards. I ironically ordered two boards from AliExpress a couple weeks prior to you posting the video on the low power update and was building mine right when you released the video. Mine have been running flawless and they are both backed up with a stand alone pbs server
Good video Those little TigerLake boards are cheeky I actually religated a Poweredge R720xd based server with one of those. The performance wasnt as good but the drop in power and noise at that performance was dramatic.
That t-shirt is very, very, very distracting jesus. I love it. I'll buy one just to enter meetings with it and people to only look at it and reading it over and over and over again which i have been doing 🤣🤣
love these vids, good job el jeffe. I'd like to be confident enough on camera to begin a channel. right now my "extravagant" homelab goes unnoticed outside of myself and my kids. maybe one- day sir. keep it up, love the videos.
So you're limited to 1000/35. In Australia, NBN Co has in the last 12 months or so released 1000/50 plans and has recently dropped the price for it too. Having such high speeds are just amazing. Also, Yes, Starlink is definitely great for backup purposes or even a primary over a 4G connection in rural and remote areas.
that 4 port 100g switch is only for backhaul between storage nodes. it's not meant for anything else, and it is a meme to use it in a homelab elsewise. you can utilize 100g in a practical manner in your homelab by using an n9k-c93180yc-ex as your core switch (or preferably 2 in a vPC domain). 260w each though.
Great tour, while while I live the ability to Tinker, my wife prefers stability and unfortunately our power is .40/kWh so currently trying shift to a more efficient system.
It would be cool to see how you're doing horizontal and vertical cable management behind those devices as I've been failing for years with oem and hacky solutions, but you always seem to have some clever idea I haven't seen before.
If it makes you feel any better, my power company is a small customer-owned non-profit. The big power company that dominates the rest of the area is still $0.22/kWh.
our provider uses a smart meter to change what you are billed based on time of day. from 7PM to 7AM its 8.7ct (CAD), then depending on the time of year the other mid peak and on peak rates are 12.2ct and 18.2ct respectively
I both love and can't stand that t-shirt. I have memorised that with the white and colour around the other way (orange-white, orange etc) and it gnaws at my brain seeing it printed the other way.
Only $775 to eliminate the four 1M fiber cables that I can live with but you can't. Seems like a bargain, considering it would be the most expensive networking component in my rack!
@@CraftComputing well, it can be also used for ethernet cables, not only fiber. From what I know you can customize what cartridges you want, which is a plus. Also, fortunately there are different sizes at different prices, afaik the patchbox 365 is around 450€. Still expensive though and can be unnecessary, but hey, it looks very clean
Yep, same goal is to move to low power servers to reduce power consumption and more importantly: NOISE. Repurposed my old gaming rig into a plex/portainer server and looking into 3-5 mini pcs for a kube cluster over a Dell R640 thats fully loaded (Dual 8160s and 768G of mem ).
"Running 100 Gig in my network is completely stupid. I don't recommend doing it" - Jeff, 2024 "Hold my beer" - Jeff, 2044 Love the tour! What server rack cabinet are you using? I might look on Craigslist or something.
I'm pretty sure you know this, but as the switch does not support RDMA, the best you can do to maximize the use of the 100G links are jumbo frames for now.
I wish someone would make a super shallow (maybe 9" deep) rack mounted NAS for use in 12" deep wall mounted racks. Being 5-6 rack spaces tall would be fine as long as it was shallow.
I still cannot believe the idle power consumption, unless most of what we just saw is powered off 99% of the time. That is considering my R730xd with dual xeonv4 is already consuming around 200W alone with all the hard drives installed. That is without networking equipment, without AC, without console, just the server alone. Having that said, electricity is around 35cent/kWh here. Fortunately I do have a big solar farm, so summers are not a problem. During the winters however I'm hurting and still.trying to figure out a way to at least be able to use the heat the rack produces as heating for the house without also importing the noise level, which failed so far.
Would you be interested in custom (Designed and Made In House!) Rackmount Vanity Plates? Let me know here, and I'll look at adding them to the store.
Definitely
I would almost be more interested in a fan chiller plate OR maybe a little raspberry pi mounting solution... Still with your branding/ design, but with a more practical use... MAYBE even one with a small patch panel insert if we can find one for cheap enough.
Any product with dimensionality or that requires manufacturing likely won't come out of my shop for quite a while. I'm a one-man-band with decent tools, but I'm also very expensive per hour ;-)
I'd by a 2u plate like the one in your video totally.
I would love a few simple designs like the one in your video. Basically just something funny to show friends while I’m flexing my servers on them 😎
I love it, an attainable, reasonable yet at the same time completely unreasonable home lab... As it should be...
There's something for everyone in here. Low TDP VM hosts that cost less than $400. A 64-Core Epyc build that was $20K when fully built. High end NAS, low end NAS, 1Gb PoE, 100Gb Fiber...
@@CraftComputing Your videos served as base for when I graduated as a network engineer from Uni and started working, and after a career change and opening my own business, I still reference to your content for upgrading and modifying my network.
ah yes a full size rack with air conditioner very reasonable 😂
🤣😂🤣😂🤣@@michealhoward719
I always love seeing Jeff's Rack!
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Same, I think a tech UA-camr should probably plan to do this every year.
Just scrolling through the comments. No one mentioned anything about the shirt? The shirt shows the proper way to make Ethernet cables :D
I noticed right away. I always struggled remembering that order
I am sitting here in Britain, in winter, my mind blown that you'd want to throw heat away! :-)
May I suggest you try an air purifier with a particle filter? It could substantially reduce the amount of dust, at least it works really well for me! I use a relatively cheap one IKEA sells.
It's a 600sqft garage that houses wood working and laser engraving tools. It's going to be a bit dusty. Easier and more cost efficient to blow out the servers once every 6 months.
@@CraftComputing Every six months? My thought was seeing that dust, that it might keep you busy with every 2-3 months. But hey, if 6 is good enough, I'm fine with it. Considering you busy doing other dusty works there, seeing it in this particular time, it's not that bad.
A thin layer of dust doesn't affect performance. If it offends a couple people on the internet, they can go home and clean their own racks.
yeah man, that had some dust
@@CraftComputing No, no. I didn't mentioned anything about being offended, or anything like that. I just told you what thought was in my mind. It was a perception on periods of dust cleaning. You answered as no performance hit on it. Great.
No balloons popped in your hand, and I am lucky, I don't have a rack sized infrastructure. :P Dust still a factor, haha.
You've got a repeated clip in the video at 19:46 where you talk about the 100G core switch.
Also that shirt is amazing.
For your UPS batteries, you might look into 12V LiFePO4 cells. They have integrated BMS's that work with lead-acid chargers and whatnot while still having longer runtimes and much-much better deep-cycle tolerance than lead-acid batteries. They're a bit more expensive than lead-acid packs, but you don't need to replace the whole UPS unit to benefit from the improved chemistry.
I replaced the 4 lead-acid packs in my Eaton 9130 rack UPS, and they've been rock-solid for several years, despite frequent power blips and outages in my area.
I considered it, but the UPS is only there to prevent brown-outs and surges, not really for any kind of uptime insurance. For $240, I should get another 5-6 years out of the Pb battery packs, and that's plenty.
I did this with my APC SMT1500rm2u, and eventually upgraded to a SMT2200. The only thing to be aware of with APCs is they have an unusually high float voltage, and it will shorten the life of the LiFePO4 cells. Luckily with the SMT and older APC units you can enter a programming mode with an FTDI serial adapter and adjust the float voltage to within spec for the new batteries.
@@xDownSetx Very interesting. Least we know it's not a drop in replacement for newer APCs. Good to know there are hacks to make it work.
Love the dust spreading in the air when you open the rack door...
Good to see your rigs, interesting Aircon for the rack . I have my rack in the basement. I use it to dry clothes. The temp doesn't get above 20c.
Interesting power load. I'm at 400w with 4 servers (2 xcp-ng, soon to be proxmox, pfsense and truenas scale 24 drives)
The power cost is 35p (UK price) something like $0.04
So I built a Victron system. That can power the house if there's a blackout.
But the main point was to access cheap electricity overnight at 7p. So I charge up the 82kWh battery (3 phase 230v) then run the house off grid for the day.
It is also the whole house UPS system.
You're incredibly lucky! I pay between $0.32/kwH and $0.36/kW, so I have to be really picky about what equipment I need to keep running and what I have to shut down right when I'm done using it.
Yikes. That sounds brutal. I believe mine is $0.08/kwH and I'm still running around the house turning off lights all day.
@23:35 - T-Mobile Home Internet... no download cap, great coverage, fast upload. Much better as a main or a backup ISP.
Your single year worth of server rack costs is the same as 2 months of my ENTIRE home's usage in the UK. Mental how cheap your power is. We're sitting at around 27p (.43c)/kwh
Nice Rack Jeff, needs a little cleaning, but considering its in your garage it looks positively pristine. You are motivating me to get this sort of thing for my attic (don't have a garage or basement available) and get to learning things.
Here in Seattle I had the choice between Comcast "1Gig" and Centurylink 1G Fiber. Centurylink 1G Fiber is the winner hands down with 1Gbps up and down. Real world speeds are 800 Mbps down and 900 Mbps up. I attribute the 900 Mbps up to most people not uploading much of anything but comes in handy when transfering backups to S3.
What I like the most about the rack is the Bat'leth on the side...
Glory to you, and your homelab!
Jeff, Happy New. Enjoyed the honest breakdown of your rack gear. Home Lab Sweet Home Lab :) 😎
I see the Bat'leth is always ready to grab in your server room. Being truly prepared to defend you HomeCloud is very important! 😇🤪😬
Qapla’ !
Very nice lab! Thanks for all the dust. 😊
Yeah comcast upload is brutal. So glad Ziply Fiber made it to my area. 1Gig symm now is like a dream come true!!
Love the shirt. I always say brown-white, brown so if I were to get this shirt I'd need an edited version
I loved your lab tour. I live in the northeast where electricity definitely does not cost $0.07/KWh, more like $0.20. I have FiOS “gigabit” which provides 950 down / 880 up. I’ve had it for three years and it has not once failed, though our power here is extremely reliable. Take from that what you will :)
I've only lost power once in the last 4 years at this house, and it was during a generational ice storm. Power was restored in 4 hours.
Currently have to pay the equivalent of US$0.47/KWh here in the UK. Really makes me want to replace my home server with something more power efficient 😅
I have two racks in my house. The NAS is using 1kW and my other one has almost all my networking hardware at close to 200W. 350W with everything sounds insane!
Great to see how things are evolving with the home lab! I managed to set up 100Gb networking at home too and agree it’s pointless. I can get around 50Gb real-world file transfers using ksmbd (the kernel-side implementation of SMB which supports RDMA using RoCE) on Linux for the file server and using Windows 11 Pro for Workstations which supports client-side RDMA using RoCE (all using PCIe Gen 4 x4 NVMe SSDs on each end with fast file systems like XFS on the server rather than ZFS and NTFS on Windows). Would recommend looking into this as I get much better speeds than using regular Samba and lower CPU usage. Configuration isn’t too hard as well - ksmbd can basically just be enabled on most modern Linux flavours and is essentially a drop-in replacement for Samba. And on the Windows side (as long as it is the Workstations version or some other enterprise versions I think work as well) it all should just work with default settings (at least with Mellanox cards) if things are configured correctly on the server side. Because this uses RoCE you can just use regular Ethernet networking without needing to play around with Infiniband. But, as you say, you basically never need these sorts of speeds with anything you do in the real world as there are usually lots of other bottlenecks. Would therefore only recommend max 25Gb or 40Gb if using older cheap Mellanox ConnectX-3 cards, for home use.
Helpful tip...on your monitor, press the right bottom button, then the - middle button three times to auto configuration the bottom button again and 75% of the time it works 100% of the time to auto adjust the screen.
I usually auto-config it, and half the time it still messes up.
As a person who works in a steel fabrication factory, I can too easily understand your pain at the end
Jeff is probably the leading cause of my buying more rack gear.
now that my 12U is full of networking gear, UPS, and 12 thin clients in a cluster, I find myself looking at 22U cabinets and full size full depth racks, disk shelves, and used epyc and threadripper stuff on ebay. and those erying boards are quite tempting for playground usage.
Great video. Agreed it’s hard to make fiber look clean could always use a horizontal manager but then you waste a 1u
Man, i love this. It's down and dirty with money savings where needed and maybe a real nice thing in there to keep the dream alive! Cheers with a Sierra Nevada from the beer county capital of the world, North County San Diego!
My parents just got Starlink. Previously they had a 0.7mbps connection. They only stream tv/movies and surf the web. It has been an amazing improvement for them. The other option sucked so, so much that even with the occasional blip, it's still worlds better.
Yeah, if the alternative is HughesNet, Starlink is SOOOO MUCH BETTER! But it can't replace traditional wired broadband.
I need a Bat'leth on the side of my server rack now. Damn you!
Qapla’ !
I'm so happy with my 10gb network, it's well overkill for my needs, I have to basically stop anything else on the server to reach the limits, but boy does it feel good to know it's there, and also look at.
I've been nerding out on homelab stuff the past few months and I'm excited the new year brings new home lab tours/ideas 😅🎉
Impressed with the power draw, or lack of.
i just changed out 85 batteries at the school where i work including one of those little 1500VA ones, a few 5000VA ones, and mostly the 2k-3k APC units...all in all i had to install a chevrolet caprice classic worth of lead....i then put in a zabbix server for monitoring them as its just sooooo much better than the Ecostruxure stuff imo and watches our printers, servers, switches, etc., now also
Love that T568B shirt from Veronica Explains
I just got my first ever server rack : an old Dell Poweredge R710 dual Xeon E5649 that is actually running on Proxmox 8.1.4. I must admit that it as been flawless and more than enough for my needs. I mainly use it as a game server host (running multiples game servers at the same times) for me and my friends. I love it! I think I'm gonna build a server rack with a nas. I mean, once you taste it, you want more I guess... I also plan to max it out before starting to spend money on something newer. I want to put dual x5690 (which they are very cheap on ebay), 144GB of RAM (yes, I will use it fully) and fill up the 8 slot SAS with nas hdd for backups. (The VMs are actually running on a nvme plugged on a PCI-E adaptor, even tho it's old pci2.0 it still reach up to a 1gb/s wich is great for my heavily modded fabric minecraft server). But in fact, I'm gonna fill up the PCI ports with even more nvme that I'm gonna software raid to reach even more.
This 12:00 is the reason why I decided to go with just a regular 19 inch monitor + keyboard + mouse and then rack mounted it. It takes up more space in my server rack. I am looking for a swinging monitor rack mount that would accommodate a regular monitor but can fold up and stick inside the rack. No luck so far.
17:38... check out SFP DAC cables. They come in shorter lengths, works a treat!
I love the Bat'leth security system :)
While the dust triggered me, I still realize it's probably all fine. We had an HP Gen6 DL380 across the hall from an automotive salt spray test lab with shared plenum space. Server ran for 12yrs without issue despite being fully oxidized inside from salt exposure. We distributed the hard drives among the team as momentos.
There's dust, sure, but it's not clogging the servers are affecting performance.
@@CraftComputing Oh yeah garage dust is fine but I regularly go into industrial paint applicators where the dust is like printer toner levels of bad for stuff. I have "plant only" clothes. My home network is "suburban dad" simple since I don't want to manage it when I get home. PiHole is the most complicated thing on it. Actually now that I think about it you're probably fine since your target audience is buying stuff off eBay and putting it in used racks or something from StarTech. WifeArgro will naturally limit the noise/heat.
For the UPS I believe that you can just replace the batteries individually saving money or purchasing better quality or longer lasting batteries then perform a load-runtime calibration. Thats what I do with my UPSs, BatteriesPlus has Duracell batteries with a larger rating for the same size battery. Sure can notice the difference when it comes to runtime.
Love that you did the proxmox builds with those erying boards. I ironically ordered two boards from AliExpress a couple weeks prior to you posting the video on the low power update and was building mine right when you released the video. Mine have been running flawless and they are both backed up with a stand alone pbs server
I really like the HL15!
Hey thanks for sharing your home lab is something that I could inspire to having in the future. Would love to have a Vanity plate for my rack
happy year craft computing
Wow that shirt is so nerdy, i love it!
Good video
Those little TigerLake boards are cheeky I actually religated a Poweredge R720xd based server with one of those.
The performance wasnt as good but the drop in power and noise at that performance was dramatic.
Love your rack and I take a lot of your ideas and run with them for my own homelab.
Homelab software tour video would be nice to see.
That t-shirt is very, very, very distracting jesus. I love it. I'll buy one just to enter meetings with it and people to only look at it and reading it over and over and over again which i have been doing 🤣🤣
Shirt by @VeronicaExplains :-)
vkc.sh/product-tag/t568b-cheat-sheet/
900W Idle!??! Those are rookie numbers! You gotta pump those numbers up!
I do have 2x 20A circuits behind there, so in theory I could run 4000W.....
Perfect amount to geeking out.
love these vids, good job el jeffe. I'd like to be confident enough on camera to begin a channel. right now my "extravagant" homelab goes unnoticed outside of myself and my kids. maybe one- day sir. keep it up, love the videos.
You'll never get the skill until you try. Point a camera at yourself and give it a shot! That's how I started.
@@CraftComputing truer words. that first step is always the biggest.
So you're limited to 1000/35. In Australia, NBN Co has in the last 12 months or so released 1000/50 plans and has recently dropped the price for it too. Having such high speeds are just amazing.
Also, Yes, Starlink is definitely great for backup purposes or even a primary over a 4G connection in rural and remote areas.
Badass shirt!! Only 5 seconds in! Ok, now ill watch the rest of the video! Hopefully, I can buy that shirt!
Link is in the description ;-)
Thanks man! Just bought one!@@CraftComputing
that 4 port 100g switch is only for backhaul between storage nodes. it's not meant for anything else, and it is a meme to use it in a homelab elsewise. you can utilize 100g in a practical manner in your homelab by using an n9k-c93180yc-ex as your core switch (or preferably 2 in a vPC domain). 260w each though.
Love that shirt Jeff! Though I usually call it "Orange-White Orange..."
That shirt is GOAT. I need one.
Shirt by @VeronicaExplains :-)
vkc.sh/product-tag/t568b-cheat-sheet/
@@CraftComputing Thanks!!
I like the TIA-568B-shirt 😀
Great tour, while while I live the ability to Tinker, my wife prefers stability and unfortunately our power is .40/kWh so currently trying shift to a more efficient system.
It would be cool to see how you're doing horizontal and vertical cable management behind those devices as I've been failing for years with oem and hacky solutions, but you always seem to have some clever idea I haven't seen before.
love the t658b shirt
Certainly need some vanity Rackmount Plates, ill keep checking the store 😁
Impressive system Jeff! Very nice!
I've been having fun replacing stock fans in 1 and 2 u equipment with noctua fans.
I envy your 7ct per kWh. I pay about 27ct (Euro) here in NL and that’s considered a good price nowadays.
If it makes you feel any better, my power company is a small customer-owned non-profit. The big power company that dominates the rest of the area is still $0.22/kWh.
Yep, same country and paying 37ct... My 30W NAS is costing me €100 a year to keep on.
our provider uses a smart meter to change what you are billed based on time of day. from 7PM to 7AM its 8.7ct (CAD), then depending on the time of year the other mid peak and on peak rates are 12.2ct and 18.2ct respectively
@@TheAnoniemo I am with Zonneplan. Per-hour pricing but it averaged 27ct for 2023.
I'd buy one of the suite home lab blank plates. Just a little something to spice up the home rack.
I love the shirt man!
Love that shirt.
Amazing. In the UK I pay the equivalent of 45c/kwh and its 100% renewable...
Excellent stuff as usual!
I both love and can't stand that t-shirt.
I have memorised that with the white and colour around the other way (orange-white, orange etc) and it gnaws at my brain seeing it printed the other way.
Great setup. To be fair, even at the time I’m pretty sure you were of the opinion that 100Gb Ethernet would mostly be for shits and giggles.
Awesome lab. A patchbox would make the patch cabling look sweet!
Patchbox is so fucking gimmicky
Only $775 to eliminate the four 1M fiber cables that I can live with but you can't. Seems like a bargain, considering it would be the most expensive networking component in my rack!
@@CraftComputing well, it can be also used for ethernet cables, not only fiber. From what I know you can customize what cartridges you want, which is a plus. Also, fortunately there are different sizes at different prices, afaik the patchbox 365 is around 450€. Still expensive though and can be unnecessary, but hey, it looks very clean
Gotta love living in CA. My lowest power rate is .33 per kW. Much higher during summer and peak times.
Last time I used 900W in my house for a closet I had to sell most of what the "server closet" "generated" to cover the costs. (UK)
Crying in 0.35€/kWh
And i was sad about 0.20 for an hour aday.
Crying at 0.46
me 0.80
Today it was 0.55 euro
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Yep, same goal is to move to low power servers to reduce power consumption and more importantly: NOISE. Repurposed my old gaming rig into a plex/portainer server and looking into 3-5 mini pcs for a kube cluster over a Dell R640 thats fully loaded (Dual 8160s and 768G of mem ).
Great tour, thanks! Are you tempted to test out the new UniFi cable modem? 👀
Hmmm.... hadn't seen that yet. I'll have to give it a look :-)
Nice vid, as always. Next video will be about cleaning your homelab rack AC I guess, LOL?!
"Running 100 Gig in my network is completely stupid. I don't recommend doing it" - Jeff, 2024
"Hold my beer" - Jeff, 2044
Love the tour! What server rack cabinet are you using? I might look on Craigslist or something.
I'm pretty sure you know this, but as the switch does not support RDMA, the best you can do to maximize the use of the 100G links are jumbo frames for now.
Great t-shirt!
You might get more endurance from equal spec LiFePO batteries. A lot of people who replace consumer UPS batteries recommend them.
For super clean you could probably do something with patchbox
Nice T568 shirt!
Thanks for sharing! Absolutely a overkill
Should do a software/application stack video after!
Thanks for sharing! 🎉
As quiet as the rack is now, I don't see an issue if you took it inside the house and give it a nice clean environment.
I wish someone would make a super shallow (maybe 9" deep) rack mounted NAS for use in 12" deep wall mounted racks. Being 5-6 rack spaces tall would be fine as long as it was shallow.
23:40 I agree with that sentiment ^^
Loved this video.
Vanity rack plates? Sign me up!
Love the shirt
Craftinator. Solid name
I still cannot believe the idle power consumption, unless most of what we just saw is powered off 99% of the time.
That is considering my R730xd with dual xeonv4 is already consuming around 200W alone with all the hard drives installed. That is without networking equipment, without AC, without console, just the server alone.
Having that said, electricity is around 35cent/kWh here. Fortunately I do have a big solar farm, so summers are not a problem. During the winters however I'm hurting and still.trying to figure out a way to at least be able to use the heat the rack produces as heating for the house without also importing the noise level, which failed so far.
holy shit!!! look at all that dust
I have found the exact same 25G limitation on the 100G switch. I pulled hair out for ages trying to get past this to no avail.