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Here's my beautiful unemployed-for-too-long-have-no-money-dont-care-about-looks lab :)
Hey it's more than good enough to run all this ¯_(ツ)_/¯
It looks much better than I have. My current infrastructure is built upon a set of mostly obsolete devices: Intel Atom 230 and 330 used processors. Also, SBCs: a few Raspberry Pi 2Bs, and a few Orange Pi Zeros (the very first gen, 32-bit). They are spread among different locations (office, relatives, home), and if I’d get a side gig job with the next company, I may deploy a couple of used computers for them too. So there’s not much to picture, but it looks much worse than this.
Also, is it a Surface on the left? I almost sure it is! I’ve bought 3RT (obsolete slow model) two weeks ago. It’s piece of shit hardware, but the concept of a Linux tablet / laptop for cheap (I buy used) is beautiful, so I’m considering getting one more modern model at some later point. I guess when my battery would be in a poor condition. It’s a great device for sshing, at the very least.
That's the spirit, re-using "obsolete" stuff that is so not obsolete. And yes, good eye, it's a Surface Pro 7 on Ubuntu on the left ;)
I hope that barracuda was shucked from a Seagate Expansion lol (that's where I got all of my barracudas).
just a HDD that was replaced by a NVMe in my desktop a while ago and I had lying around.
My literal tech stack:
HP Prodesk and NUC i3: Proxmox hosts
NUC i5: Debian server (primarily docker server)
uGreen NAS: TrueNAS NFS-Storage for proxmox host (connected via 2.5G NIC)
RaspberryPi4 (NES case): docker host for pihole (so I don't take out my whole DNS access when doing maintenance...)
White sandwich at the botom: HPE Aruba 1930 24G PoE switch
All stacked on my PC (Win11, Ryzen 5 7800X3D, 16GB RAM, RTX 3070)
Edit: Power is stable enough to not need a UPS. In fact I had never experienced a power outage at home.
Started with a nicely packaged mini-pc running some docker containers. Recently added an external gpu through an m.2 to oculink adapter, so now it also hosts wolf for game streaming 😁 Will package it all up at some point...