What did you all waste money on for your homelabs this holiday discount season? I snagged a rosewill 4u case for $80 on Newegg. Currently my NAS is a guest in a ryzen based proxmox host in a silverstone case with a ton of 3.5 bays. Gonna move an older supermicro server mobo into that silverstone case and make it a dedicated bare metal NAS that I’ll probably only run a few hours a month, and then build a “new” game/vm server with the ryzen parts in the rosewill case. That way I can run my more demanding stuff without also having to power a bunch of spinning rust all the time. Yes the ~70 watts for 24/7 HDD’s nags at me that much; don’t try to tell me how long it will take me to make my $80 back 😂
What projects did y’all find for yourselves?
5 x 1TiB nvme drives and USBC enclosures for a pi cluster.
Does a pi4 do that much better with nvme over usb than a sata ssd over usb (what I use)? All my high performance storage is in x86 boxes now because I only have gigabit networking so the speed advantage of nvme is really useful for local storage.
No I don’t think I can fully utilize the nvme capability. I am sure the bandwith of the controller will be a bottle neck. I got them because they were dirt cheap at my local pc shop, along with horrendous RGB enclosures to make em that much faster. SSD to me, would have accomplished the same thing.
I run the OS off USB, these will be be be used for micro_ceph.