I definitely wish that this was more of a "standard". Especially for us folks that like self hosting but don't want to stuff a rack in our houses haha. Great video as always man!
It's awesome you're still working on this project, i just purchased one last week and have started my build in it. Went with 9U, but putting 2x itx systems in powered off 1 revolt x. One for various VMs, the other bare metal pfsense. I'll finally have proper 2.5gbe, a nas, and a proper playground for VMs.
Glad to see you follow up on the 10 inch rack. I also grabbed one of those 10 inch enclosures last year and have been building up a similar system. I've got a 12 port keystone jack panel, a pfsense firewall, a switch on one of those same shelves you showed, and probably the same dual pi 3d printed thing you have, but with the 0.93 oled screens. I did have to design and print rack ears for the firewall device, and also a few other things for it as well. It's no joke to say that this isn't really something you can get into without a 3d printer.
I will say that I find the monoproce slim Ethernet cables nice for connecting things within the rack itself, as they look less oversized in the tiny rack.
Your comment about keystone connectors saved me some trouble as I didn't know I to repair a cable that had been cut a bit short in one room. Way easier than trying to splice or use a female-female connector.
Really want you to revisit this and show the wiring going out the back(?) of the rack. I cannot find pictures of this case that illustrate this. If this can reduce external cabling to 1 power and 1 network cable, this would be perfect. Also interested in cooling and sound.
Nice. That looks awesome. Question for you: I was looking at these for a similar setup. I have 2x Juniper EX2300-C-12P switches that are 10.78" wide. I am almost positive I could make these work with flipping a shelf or other brackets over, setting them on top, and putting a 1U patch panel underneath each one. I was looking at the rack you used, but the pics and drawings were not good enough for me to tell for sure if there's an extra 1.2" of space beyond the 10" wide rails. Do you think an 11" wide piece of 1U gear would fit between the rails on the inside? Thanks for any help or info!
Would love if they made more surge protectors for this size rack too. The only one available I can find is by Atlas and it’s over 2x the price of the 19” rack ones.
you need to do followup and add some storage and also killawatt stats startup/idle/full load - also how many next gen sbc could you fit in one? add fans to front door or back - push filtered air through case - can also double as a air purifier - also think about making detents for stacking these
I'm sorry man. You lost me at your "back door" ha ha. How old am I? Right? It just sounded pretty funny. Ok the fun is over. Back to video. Thanks for sharing NovaSpirit - once again great video.
I was just wondering what's up with Nova spirit and it looks like he just posted within the day. always great projects out of this channel, I got one of the pi kvms and it is awesome
Hey, really cool part. I have unfortunately difficulty to find your videos that deals with the construction and the explanation of your installed parts. Can you create a playlist or something similar to make it easier for beginners like me to rebuild such a Homelab? Gladly also with amazon links.
Great! I am building a 10 inch rack too, my plan is to put all my home network there, also, some time ago you did a video about the 52pi router board for the CM4 and showcased the board working with the PiJuice, I want to do the same and actually put it inside my 10 inch rack, how did you managed to install the pijuice software into openwrt? I can't seem to find much information about the subject.
you should make clone of the rack and systems - the only thing i see you need is more emphasis on faster network and nvme - realistically these sbc max out at 2.5/5 but that is fine - you can still run nas and ws on 10 or 20 with bonding/bridging - you should go with a couple ups and then ha opnsense to managed switch - it will allow you to have failover and agg - for out of band and backdoor you could run pikvm on the opnsnense #round robin #netfs #scale #cluster in a box
Im assuming for your network input, you need to have an ISP right? Mine is connected via an ISP router and wondering if this is how the professional world does it as well 2nd, im looking at making a dedicated home lab server from my raspberry pi, and was wondering - how do you select what motherboard and cpu to use?
You can setup a network without internet without using an ISP. If you want internet, you will need an ISP, and so do professional environments. However, some ISPs will let you terminate it on your own edge router/modem (eg. a ubiquite dream machine pro), others may make use of their modem mandatory, in which case you can put firewall/switches/etc behind it.
As for your second question, I can’t speak for Nova, but when I select cpu/motherboard I usually look at what what features (core count, amount of pcie slots, etc) I need and what features would be nice to have and then basically start looking for low power motherboard and cpu version that meet the minimal requirements and may even have (some of) the nice to haves.
link to 10" inch rack -> amzn.to/3TaNRrx
I definitely wish that this was more of a "standard". Especially for us folks that like self hosting but don't want to stuff a rack in our houses haha. Great video as always man!
@@wojtek-33 That's awesome! What're you running and what is the noise and heat like?
It's awesome you're still working on this project, i just purchased one last week and have started my build in it. Went with 9U, but putting 2x itx systems in powered off 1 revolt x. One for various VMs, the other bare metal pfsense. I'll finally have proper 2.5gbe, a nas, and a proper playground for VMs.
Glad to see you follow up on the 10 inch rack. I also grabbed one of those 10 inch enclosures last year and have been building up a similar system. I've got a 12 port keystone jack panel, a pfsense firewall, a switch on one of those same shelves you showed, and probably the same dual pi 3d printed thing you have, but with the 0.93 oled screens. I did have to design and print rack ears for the firewall device, and also a few other things for it as well. It's no joke to say that this isn't really something you can get into without a 3d printer.
I will say that I find the monoproce slim Ethernet cables nice for connecting things within the rack itself, as they look less oversized in the tiny rack.
Your comment about keystone connectors saved me some trouble as I didn't know I to repair a cable that had been cut a bit short in one room. Way easier than trying to splice or use a female-female connector.
Really want you to revisit this and show the wiring going out the back(?) of the rack. I cannot find pictures of this case that illustrate this. If this can reduce external cabling to 1 power and 1 network cable, this would be perfect. Also interested in cooling and sound.
A few issues for home server setups - most small racks are small in height and depth. Faster then 1Gb switches cost a ton of money still.
Nice. That looks awesome. Question for you: I was looking at these for a similar setup. I have 2x Juniper EX2300-C-12P switches that are 10.78" wide. I am almost positive I could make these work with flipping a shelf or other brackets over, setting them on top, and putting a 1U patch panel underneath each one. I was looking at the rack you used, but the pics and drawings were not good enough for me to tell for sure if there's an extra 1.2" of space beyond the 10" wide rails. Do you think an 11" wide piece of 1U gear would fit between the rails on the inside? Thanks for any help or info!
I wish there was more options for small SOHO racks. IDC racks are made with directional airflow. I've made mine from wood, plastic, and wire 😆 ghetto
Would love if they made more surge protectors for this size rack too. The only one available I can find is by Atlas and it’s over 2x the price of the 19” rack ones.
That mini cab is so cool
what is that case?
amzn.to/3TaNRrx
you need to do followup and add some storage and also killawatt stats startup/idle/full load - also how many next gen sbc could you fit in one? add fans to front door or back - push filtered air through case - can also double as a air purifier - also think about making detents for stacking these
What switch is that? I didn’t catch a model # in the vid. You said you have a vid on it but can’t seem to find it.
I think it's this one: QSW-M2108R-2C
Oh, man, where'd you get the STL for the QNAP's ears? I have the same switch and want mount it in my 10" rack.
I'm sorry man. You lost me at your "back door" ha ha. How old am I? Right? It just sounded pretty funny.
Ok the fun is over. Back to video. Thanks for sharing NovaSpirit - once again great video.
Hey Don. Great video. Thank you.
Do you think you could do a video with SSD caching on Open Media Vault?
I was just wondering what's up with Nova spirit and it looks like he just posted within the day. always great projects out of this channel, I got one of the pi kvms and it is awesome
Hey, really cool part. I have unfortunately difficulty to find your videos that deals with the construction and the explanation of your installed parts. Can you create a playlist or something similar to make it easier for beginners like me to rebuild such a Homelab? Gladly also with amazon links.
ua-cam.com/play/PL846hFPMqg3j6oFQo1WC4_RKXU6cR1Rdk.html
Hey would love more info on how the backdoor works and what it does for you, great vid 👍
looks super nice
Did you end up filling out the rest of it?
any recommendations on 3d printed NAS? I would love to have a 6bay mini itx one.
Look nice, simple and compact.
Great! I am building a 10 inch rack too, my plan is to put all my home network there, also, some time ago you did a video about the 52pi router board for the CM4 and showcased the board working with the PiJuice, I want to do the same and actually put it inside my 10 inch rack, how did you managed to install the pijuice software into openwrt? I can't seem to find much information about the subject.
Thanks for the video! The PC case on your desk looks cool, could you provide a link for it (and if possible a build list).
cool setup, would be great for small spaces.
you should make clone of the rack and systems - the only thing i see you need is more emphasis on faster network and nvme - realistically these sbc max out at 2.5/5 but that is fine - you can still run nas and ws on 10 or 20 with bonding/bridging - you should go with a couple ups and then ha opnsense to managed switch - it will allow you to have failover and agg - for out of band and backdoor you could run pikvm on the opnsnense #round robin #netfs #scale #cluster in a box
Looks really good! I am interested on that backdoor, I have wireguard in my home too, I never had any problem but as U said it is just in case
I'm interested to know the set up as well. does it run on 4/5g cell network? or are you just referring to vpn access?
Its so weird no one produces Mini-ITX cases for 10 inch.
I was just thinking of this, as I just wanted smaller rack than 19".
hey , can u please show your fellow content creator how it's done.. T.... Tim when overboard and drop the mic.. wow . at 50 I'm staying over here
How didyou get proxmox on the pi? It's not officially supported, right?
i have a video on it, ua-cam.com/video/7lkUu_OMKrY/v-deo.html no it's not officially supported
can share your link where do you buy your rack?
amzn.to/3TaNRrx
Can you show us set up ?
Any chance of updated raid 5 media Nas with jellyfin or software raid 5 and kodi? Along with x86 hosted instead of pi-hosted?
Do you have the 3d print stl for the power strip mount?
Great rack build ❣️
Im assuming for your network input, you need to have an ISP right? Mine is connected via an ISP router and wondering if this is how the professional world does it as well
2nd, im looking at making a dedicated home lab server from my raspberry pi, and was wondering - how do you select what motherboard and cpu to use?
You can setup a network without internet without using an ISP. If you want internet, you will need an ISP, and so do professional environments.
However, some ISPs will let you terminate it on your own edge router/modem (eg. a ubiquite dream machine pro), others may make use of their modem mandatory, in which case you can put firewall/switches/etc behind it.
As for your second question, I can’t speak for Nova, but when I select cpu/motherboard I usually look at what what features (core count, amount of pcie slots, etc) I need and what features would be nice to have and then basically start looking for low power motherboard and cpu version that meet the minimal requirements and may even have (some of) the nice to haves.
Wow, I like it.
How do you like your QNAP switch?
really well acutally no issues
@@NovaspiritTech seems like the go to switches ATM for multigig at a good price. Been thinking about picking on up for a while
If you ask me, 19" is too big, and 10" is too small - sometinhg along 14" for OUTER size would be perfect.
I want a rack like this. I hope to have one some day.
Hmm, neat. Next time I do a patch panel I will use keystones.
Wouldn’t using a 30 year old laptop board be better than a pig for a ‘server’?
ARM needs to bring back the riscpc - not just an rpi pc
I want one!!!
Oh what case was your raspberry pi in?
Sweet Rack Dude
thanks took about 7 months to get this figure 😂
I am past 10". Too small, not enough Hardware. Basically the same price as 19" ...
video starts at 1:44
I want to put a rack like this in my actual server rack.
You are intelligence
nice
damn geeee.
Its a network box not a server rack, or one a professional will use
he said 10 inch
So many stupid guy jokes come to mind.
I didn't know Asians could have a 10"
We can have up to 19" 🤣