Here's a full write-up on the first year of my Home-Lab: https://piefed.social/post/1002037
Since then I've now added networking and a self built 10" rack, I was undecided between MikroTik and UniFi but ended up going UniFI and I'm quite happy.
Building the 2020 Aluminum profile 10" server rack was a lot of fun and I learnt a lot of lessons along the way like:
- Cutting perfectly straight with a hacksaw is a bitch and nearly impossible (or at least for me) would not recommend.
- Buy a table/mitre saw or have them pre-cut
- Tapping threads yourself is a lot of fun, and I would recommend doing it yourself, worked perfectly every time.
- Bolt length and head size matters, even 1mm matters (that's what she said)
It's janky I know, but I love it and it's a lot less Janky than when everything was just on my desk
Next step for me would be to buy a 3D Printer (Sovol S6 Plus Ace) and print custom racks for everything
Shout out to https://www.motedis.com/ for the Aluminum parts, they can cut and tap all the parts to your desired length if you don't want to bother with that, but that's half the fun (and frustration)
Nice build. We use a lot of aluminium profiles at work for prototyping. We also have a mitre saw ;)
You can also have polycarbonate panels made for cheap to have a more finished appearance at the cost of ventilation and ease of access.
Thanks yea that's the plan I'll add those to the side and something on top later on.
Either that or I'll 3D print a honeycomb mesh