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)
How/to what are the drives below connected to?
They are connected to the ODROID H4+ mini PC above with SATA
How did you connect a 3.5 externally? Sata to mini PC and power from the PSU?
The thing that looks like a PSU is actuall a ODROID H4+ it has 4 SATA and power connectors, so I just power it from that.
It's all in excruciating detail here: https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-h4-plus/
You can also have a look at my old post: https://piefed.social/post/1002037 that might give you a better idea.