[HN Gopher] The IKEA-powered homelab on a wall
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The IKEA-powered homelab on a wall
Author : PaulHoule
Score : 70 points
Date : 2023-09-11 20:12 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| thomc wrote:
| I don't recommend their pegboard for this. When I had some very
| modest weight (soldering supplies and glues) in one of the
| compatible trays attached to the top, it bowed out over time and
| warped the board. This looks far heavier with more leverage.
| rzzzt wrote:
| I'm a Helmer cluster fan: http://helmer.sfe.se/
|
| Someone also designed acrylic shelves for it:
| https://youtu.be/SAU6PeCzs_o
| neilyoungsdog wrote:
| I have these pegboards and they are awful. Like all Ikea
| furniture, the sizing is proprietary so standard s-hooks do not
| fit. The compatible accessories are very flimsy and I would not
| trust it to safely hold a spice rack let alone a homelab.
| larrywright wrote:
| If you have access to a 3d printer, they become infinitely more
| useful. There are hundreds or possibly even thousands of
| printable accessories available on sites like Printable and
| Thingiverse. I use a few of the ikea ones like the little bins
| for pens (with a 3d printed divider), but the majority are 3d
| printed.
| Kirby64 wrote:
| How exactly is this powered by Ikea? Seems like this is just an
| advertisement for a pegboard. The author doesn't even use the
| Ikea hooks and whatnot to mount their hardware. Literally any
| pegboard or board with many holes in it would do the same thing
| here, besides aesthetics (although, there is a wide variety of
| aesthetics available for pegboards).
|
| Honestly I was kind of expecting some sort of Ikea smart home
| related "power".
| IshKebab wrote:
| Those IKEA pegboards are especially cheap and ubiquitous.
| There's a whole ecosystem around them, which admittedly he
| didn't use.
|
| But yeah I was expecting something using IKEA's smart home
| stuff.
| mayli wrote:
| Pegboard $28.99, not cheap compared to MDF/plywood board
| myelin wrote:
| I'm always interested in seeing a new attempt to solve the
| problem of organizing a ton of little devices and a mess of
| cables. My personal attempt involves mounting a couple of UniFi
| bits directly to the wall, plus a little shelf made out of scrap
| 1x4 pine for the odd shaped things and the power strip.
|
| Maintenance issues aside, the setup in the linked article looks
| quite pretty and should have decent airflow for passive cooling,
| which is nice!
| whartung wrote:
| Does anyone have a desktop shelf unit that happens to be
| external drive sized? I have, like, three of these and it would
| be nice to shove them in something that can organize them and
| their cables. If I was a 3D printer person, I guess I could
| make something, but then they'd probably overheat.
|
| I've looked in the past, but never found anything. I think one
| with a built in USB hub so that it was "just one cable" would
| be a bonus.
|
| I should probably just shut up, stack them, and wrap the cords
| with those velcro tape organizer things.
| myelin wrote:
| Something I didn't mention in my comment is that I would love
| some kind of mounting bracket that would fit a WD Easystore
| (the big cheap disks that r/datahoarder loves) in such a way
| that I could easily open it up and swap in another disk; this
| would be for my backup box, which backs up everything to a
| USB disk that I periodically swap out with another one that
| lives offsite.
| wolpoli wrote:
| You could try using a letter tray so you could keep all the
| power bricks in the back. It really depends on how often
| you'll take the drives out.
| CommieBobDole wrote:
| The pegboard system looks neat, but I'm wary of IKEA 'systems'
| ever since they discontinued the Galant desk system.
| bluescrn wrote:
| RIP Galant. I could really do with a couple of replacement
| Galant desks, or just the tops, but they're long-gone now.
|
| (And why the heck did they put big rounded corners on their new
| desks... did they never consider that people might put more
| than one of them end-to-end?...)
| jacquesm wrote:
| Ebay... they pop up with some regularity. And thrift stores
| as well.
| sebazzz wrote:
| Galant was such a great desk system.
| flurdy wrote:
| Ditto. Pegboards work well as a vertical network "rack". Here is
| mine as I assembled it last year with mostly Ubiquity gear.
| https://twitter.com/flurdy/status/1521577058232676353/photo/...
| Though I have since taken the NAS off the second pegboard as it
| simple was too bulky and cumbersome.
|
| The OP's setup is very neat and aesthetic.
| sira04 wrote:
| Reminds me of this post where they did the same, but on a cart
| instead https://ikeahackers.net/2021/08/home-networking-cart.html
|
| Looks pretty good if you don't want to hang it on a wall.
| sho_hn wrote:
| Here's my home lab, which features an IKEA wireless light switch,
| I guess? https://imgur.com/a/bXq6UmJ
|
| It's a great light switch.
| dewey wrote:
| Very cool work bench, what model is the table exactly? On their
| website I couldn't find the version with two drawers.
|
| https://www.sevilleclassics.com/collections/ultrahd(r)-1?page=.
| ..
| sho_hn wrote:
| It's the Seville Classics UltraHD Lighted Workbench, but
| unfortunately I think they have discontinued the exact model
| since my purchase in early 2022. The new one has a single
| large drawer, and from pictures the hardwood bench top might
| be a little skimpier.
|
| If you can still find this one somewhere: It was <$300 new
| for me and is extremely sturdy, with very smooth-running
| drawers as well. I'd recommend it, great value.
| dewey wrote:
| Thank you!
| jacquesm wrote:
| Very nice and nicely organized! I'd be embarrassed to post mine
| :) What are you cooking there?
| sho_hn wrote:
| IKEA hacks, of course! https://github.com/eikehein/hyelicht/
|
| Most recent: https://imgur.com/a/NoTr8XX
| jacquesm wrote:
| Oh that's beautiful, you should really post that, I'll be
| happy to upvote it and probably others will too.
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| Vaslo wrote:
| Be warned, this is EXACTLY the kind of toe in the water to a
| hobby that eventually turns into a power hungry 42U racked filled
| with all kinds of new and used servers/equipment!
|
| As someone who is addicted you have been warned.
| askiiart wrote:
| And when you get a rack, just make a LackRack (elsewhere in
| thread), and you can keep your homelab Ikea-based through all
| your upgrades!
| nine_k wrote:
| A Lack, aptly named, being smaller than a full-size rack, it
| keeps the size of your homelab at bay (somehow).
| gtvwill wrote:
| DW there is help. As someone who started in dumpster rack gear
| you too can come to realize you can probably get more grunt and
| use out of a pegboard with half a dozen nucs or old laptops
| screwed to it than a 42u decade old heating unit.
|
| The real crack is networking. Just wait til you have to talk
| yourself out of 100gbe Lan gear because your line in is only
| 100mb and the most you transfer pc to pc realistically is a few
| kb word files or multi mb media files.
| leipert wrote:
| This is the original IKEA homelab hack:
| https://wiki.eth0.nl/index.php/LackRack
| askiiart wrote:
| Nice! I'd heard about Lack 3D printer enclosures [1], but not
| this.
|
| [1] https://all3dp.com/2/ikea-3d-printer-enclosure-tutorial/
| Waterluvian wrote:
| Pegboard plus zip ties is so genius I'm a bit frustrated I didn't
| discover this years ago. I hate how big cables love to exert
| their opinions on the position of my network devices on their
| shelf.
| stronglikedan wrote:
| I'd take this a step further with a dremel, and there would be
| no visible cables between devices (well, just the ends would be
| visible). Plenty of room behind that board for cable
| management.
| gtvwill wrote:
| https://www.cabac.com.au/p/cable-wire-management/cable-ties-...
|
| Don't let any cable try and flex it's authority on you. Use
| biggest thickest zip ties you can + a set of pliers to yank the
| zip tie closed. Will squish up to about 4guage cable into line
| :) if your doing fancy(fancy in the sense of will last a decade
| and still be easy to work on, not looks) cabling use these to
| zip tie a hook and loop in place. Bind cable w hook n loop.
| monocasa wrote:
| A better IKEA powered homelab is built around the Lack furniture
| which just happens to be the right dimensions for 19" rack mount
| systems.
|
| https://wiki.eth0.nl/index.php/LackRack
| rideontime wrote:
| They both look nice, how is this one better specifically?
| nine_k wrote:
| If you have a bunch of 19" rack-mount boxes, the Lack is a
| better choice. Small boxes, like those in the post, can live
| on a pegboard.
| stickfigure wrote:
| I've usually found most 19" rack equipment to have very loud
| fans. Designed for a data center, not a residence.
| IshKebab wrote:
| Yeah definitely. You don't want these in the same room as
| you, or even in the next room. Basement or loft maybe, but
| then who cares how they are mounted?
| thfuran wrote:
| You can get quiet rackmount gear, but it certainly is a mine
| field and if you're not careful, you'll almost certainly end
| up with something 50+ dB.
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