Ain’t the fastest or prettiest, but it’s still been fun

[tuxattack80]

homeai-desktop (Node-1)
Ryzen 9 5900XT
32GB RAM
1TB NVME Storage
RTX 5060 Ti 16GB
B550M
ComfyUI, Open WebUI, TTS and STT (CPU)

homeai-offload (Node-2)
Ryzen 9 3900X
1TB NVME Storage
B550M
Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB
32GB RAM
ollama, grafana, nginx, ansible - open-tofu (Rocky Linux), semaphore, homepage, portainer, vaultwarden, uptime-kuma, wiki.js, Home Assistant.

homeai-immich (Node-3)
Ryzen 5 5500, A320M
RTX 3050 6GB
16GB RAM
Immich

TrueNAS
Poweredge T330
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1230 v6
32GB RAM
test_pool ~3.5T (2 out of the 8 drives populated, more drives incoming)

NVidia Jetson Nano Super
playing around with Nemo Switchyard

OPNsense (Firewall, IDS, NUT, CrowdSEC, Unbound, Routing)
Protectli Vault V1410

Things to do:

1. populate NAS with drives for family deployment.

2. better network infrastructure

3. move everything into a rack

4. More work and more hardware

[Jesoxen]

No problem. Just follow this order of priority: first add more hard drives to the NAS, then upgrade the network.

[tuxattack80]

Switches, Hardware Controller, 2 out of the 3 Mellanox NICs (running at 10G, actually closer to 7G since I forgot to do my homework on the motherboard and it’s crappy X1 PCIE layout . Still better than 1G) 2.5G NIC moved into the Immich box, and DACs are all online. Still waiting for the dual port NIC to arrive from eBay which will be here the day after I go back out of town of course lol. Could have utilized some m.2 to pcie riser but I’ll leave the jank until later​Definitely got some cleaning up to do and I’m leaving the onboard NICs accessible for a future management Vlan, until then it will be a fall back via consoling in the old fashioned way (keyboard and mouse) oops I got to get better with priorities, NAS next I promise

[tuxattack80]

Not perfect but a lot better than it was using the motherboard’s onboard 1G.

[tuxattack80]

Somewhere down the road I think I lost my mind thinking this was a hobby, wondering if I could subcontract out the cable management Sad thing is the center 120m fans will be replaced by these ARCTIC S12038-4K and another fan hub tomorrow so needless to say this node will be down for a little bit. Oh well have a RaidZ2 configuration I need to finish setting up now that badblocks and smartctl came back clean on the drives I recently purchased

[Agent9]

@tuxattack80

cable management

Home Depot, Menards, Amazon and other places should have “cable tie mounting bases” or double sided tape zip tie mounts that you can stick onto the inside of the chassis and organize your cables neatly. May need to use Very High Bond VHB double sided tape for it to stick longterm. There aren’t a lot of great options to cable manage when the case doesn’t have provisions for it, worth a try.

Nice AM4 rig other than that!

[tuxattack80]

Looking a lot better compared to the cluttered assortment of desktop cases pilled up and slowly feeling more like an actual homelab, less like a science project

[Agent9]

@tuxattack80

cluttered assortment of desktop cases pilled up

I’ve used a few “vertical wall mounted racks” from Amazon that are 3u, 4u or more. The better 4u ones are rated for over 100lbs and can hold your rack mounted cases with the top facing out for access.

Would probably be best to mount a half sheet of 3/4 Plywood (not OSB) to the wall with good concrete anchors, then short wood screws to mount the vertical racks to the plywood.

While it’s not the best way to have a bunch of rack mount gear, it will be secure, accessible, relatively affordable and get things off the desk and out of the way, plus cable managing on plywood is pretty simple with some 1 hole straps.