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Woah, 42u, that's quite something! How many of those slots are you using? What kind of cooling do you have to have for that closet, and how is the volume for th
by DizzyDoo 5y ago
Woah, 42u, that's quite something! How many of those slots are you using? What kind of cooling do you have to have for that closet, and how is the volume for the rest of the house?
- thefunnyman 5y agoNot OP but you find a lot of these kinds of setups on Reddit. Check out /r/homelab if you’re interested. Even crazier is /r/homedatacenter where you’ll find dudes with full tape libraries and everything. Super interesting to browse through.
- flakiness 5y agoThanks for sharing this! I tend to forget but there are people who love servers.
- jlcoff 5y agoFWIW, I recently purchased maybe 21U worth of servers for less than $2000. Mostly IBM 2U servers (all dual 6-cores / 12-threads Xeon, most for spare parts), NAS (enough for triple >12TB redundancy), and LTO-4 loaders and drives to go in a rack I picked up for free locally which also came Cisco switches. I'm gonna run my private cloud merging 3 different un-backed up physical computers, and migrate services off Google. That's my second free 42U track, but the other was mostly used as shelf space. I've got a third rack rusting in my backyard which I bought for locally for $200, originally intended to run my former employer test infra, that I brought back home after they laid us off.
- lrvick 5y agoAll of them, but to be fair the bottom half of the rack is mostly multimedia gear that serves the whole house and a 6U gaming PC. I have venting into my ceiling which connects outside but I am mostly using consumer gear like Raspberry pis and Intel NUCs and the rack fully fills the doorway so volume and heat is not a real issue.