Subj : Re: Office upgrades
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : MeaTLoTioN
Date : Sun Aug 31 2025 21:06:30

On 30 Aug 2025, poindexter FORTRAN said the following...
 
 pF> I'm going to paint my office in the next couple of weeks, which'll mean
 pF> taking down my homelab and recabling everything. I'm lookng forward to
 pF> it. The walls are sort of a pale blue, and I have to correct for a blue
 pF> cast when I'm on video.

Sounds like a fun project, how long do you anticipate this will take?

 pF> I have an old Asian armoire that serves as my server cabinet - it's got
 pF> 16 apothecary drawers full of cables, drives, old phones, earbuds and
 pF> assorted crap. Inside are a color inkjet printer, color laser and one
 pF> Proxmox node running in a desktop PC.

Oh nice touch, that's a unique homelab setup!

 pF> On top is the mess - https://realitycheckbbs.org/images/homelab.jpg

Ooh that looks tidy!

 pF> A Synology NAS, 8 port gig switch, thinkpad running Proxmox and an
 pF> OpenWRT router. The cables are a complete mess, as is power. I have a
 pF> UPS on the floor with a couple of power strips fed from it inside the
 pF> armoire.

Ah that's a cute setup for sure.

 pF> I'm going to shore up the legs of the armoire, it's already holding way
 pF> more than it should. Once it's pulled away from the wall, it's time to
 pF> manage cables. It'll be nice to get everything labeled, documented and
 pF> cables dressed before putting it back up against the wall.

Perhaps a mini rack is required? You can pick up 6-8U racks pretty cheap, some with doors too.

 pF> That reminds me, I should place an order with Monoprice for a couple of
 pF> different sizes of cables. I think I have 6 foot cables where a 1 foot
 pF> cable would do.

Have you considered buying a reel of it and making your own? Then you can get just the right length for each cable for extra cable pr0n =)

 pF> I've seen some interesting deals on rough-condition newer thinkpads,
 pF> would like to find one with more than the 4 cores, 4 threads I'm
 pF> currently running. NVMe would be nice, too.

Perhaps if you're ready to advance to the next level, a cheap used rack mount server could be a thing? I use Dell PowerEdge servers for my homelab, the R620 is nice, dual xeon cpu, mine has 32 threads total. I also have an R810 in the data centre, that is something I may consider bringing home at some point lol... but that's way OP... 64 threads, 428GB ram =) vroooom!

It gets addictive, I will say - I have moved on from a laptop with proxmox and a few LXC containers =)

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