My rack is finished for now (because I'm out of money).
Last time I posted I had some jank cables going through the rack and now we're using patch panels with color coordinated cables!
But as is tradition, I'm thinking about upgrades and I'm looking at that 1U filler panel. A mini PC with a 5060ti 16gb or maybe a 5070 12gb would be pretty sick to move my AI slop generating into my tiny rack.
I'm also thinking about the PI cluster at the top. Currently that's running a Kubernetes cluster that I'm trying to learn on. They're all PI4 4GB, so I was going to start replacing them with PI5 8/16GB. Would those be better price/performance for mostly coding tasks? Or maybe a discord bot for shitposting.
Thoughts? MiniPC recs? Wanna bully me for using AI? Please do!
Since you seem to be looking for problems to solve with new hardware, do you have a NAS already? Could be tight in 1U but maybe you can figure something out.
I do already have a NAS. It's in another box in my office.
I was considering replacing the PIs with a BOD and passing that through to one of my boxes via USB and virtualizing something. I compromised by putting 2tb Sata SSDs in each box to use for database stuff and then backing that up to the spinning rust in the other room.
How do I do that? Good question. I take suggestions.