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> This seems like a lot of work I see this is your first introduction to the homelab hobby. Welcome!

by zrail 6y ago

sneak 6y ago
I have 200TB in my garage.
- rektide 6y ago
  too sharp a point apologies, but, some homelabs acquire gear, some acquire skill. i don't see your claim about how much storage you have as any sort of technical claim, any proof of anything. i think it's expected that the homelab folk have an interest in going deep, in some areas. if networking isn't your bag, isn't interesting to you, fine. but the size of your storage cluster or how many vm's your running isn't really an interesting counter-claim.
- mbreese 6y ago
  To be fair, physically moving a small cluster of RPis around is a bit easier than moving 200TB. So a wireless linkup isn't that strange of a setup.
  - MayeulC 6y ago
    Well, to be pedantic, physically moving 200 TB around shouldn't be really hard, if it's on 10 TB drives...
astrange 6y ago
I tried to figure out what a homelab was once, but it seemed to just be people who enjoyed having a lot of fan noise at home so they could assemble VLANs for no particular reason.
- zrail 6y ago
  Homelab is a wide hobby. Some people assemble their lab to learn how things work as a way to skill up for work. Some people assemble a small lab (sometimes just a single box with a bunch of VMs) to run home automation or media applications. Other people just enjoy the blinkenlights.
- pickle-wizard 6y ago
  If you follow the homelab sub reddit, a lot of people like to run old obsolete datacenter gear. You don't have to do that. Mine is a pair of Ryzen 2 white boxes. They are dead silent and don't put out much heat either. All my network gear is fanless too. I do automation, so I use mine for dev/test against the stuff I am automating. A lot of it could run in the cloud, but that gets expensive real quick. Especially when I am working with a VMware stack.
  - astrange 6y ago
    I have the same thing with a NAS in a reasonable quiet PC box, but when I filed some FreeNAS bugs some guy actually yelled at me for not having a 1U server next to my TV for better airflow…

> This seems like a lot of work I see this is your first introduction to the homelab hobby. Welcome!

by zrail 6y ago

> This seems like a lot of work I see this is your first introduction to the homelab hobby. Welcome!

sneak 6y ago

I have 200TB in my garage.

rektide 6y ago
too sharp a point apologies, but, some homelabs acquire gear, some acquire skill. i don't see your claim about how much storage you have as any sort of technical claim, any proof of anything. i think it's expected that the homelab folk have an interest in going deep, in some areas. if networking isn't your bag, isn't interesting to you, fine. but the size of your storage cluster or how many vm's your running isn't really an interesting counter-claim.
mbreese 6y ago
To be fair, physically moving a small cluster of RPis around is a bit easier than moving 200TB. So a wireless linkup isn't that strange of a setup.
- MayeulC 6y ago
  Well, to be pedantic, physically moving 200 TB around shouldn't be really hard, if it's on 10 TB drives...

astrange 6y ago

I tried to figure out what a homelab was once, but it seemed to just be people who enjoyed having a lot of fan noise at home so they could assemble VLANs for no particular reason.

zrail 6y ago
Homelab is a wide hobby. Some people assemble their lab to learn how things work as a way to skill up for work. Some people assemble a small lab (sometimes just a single box with a bunch of VMs) to run home automation or media applications. Other people just enjoy the blinkenlights.
pickle-wizard 6y ago
If you follow the homelab sub reddit, a lot of people like to run old obsolete datacenter gear. You don't have to do that. Mine is a pair of Ryzen 2 white boxes. They are dead silent and don't put out much heat either. All my network gear is fanless too. I do automation, so I use mine for dev/test against the stuff I am automating. A lot of it could run in the cloud, but that gets expensive real quick. Especially when I am working with a VMware stack.
- astrange 6y ago
  I have the same thing with a NAS in a reasonable quiet PC box, but when I filed some FreeNAS bugs some guy actually yelled at me for not having a 1U server next to my TV for better airflow…