Hi all, long time reddit lurker, first time lemmy poster here.

This is the current state of my tiny homelab. I use it for learning and self hosting some services.

Top to bottom:

IPS modem / router

  • only used as cable modem
  • all other functionality is disabled

HP Elitedesk 705 G3 Mini

  • Proxmox VE Host
  • 4C/4T - 16GB RAM
  • 128GB SSD for Boot
  • 500GB NVME SSD for VMs
  • replaced 2 Pi4 and still gives space for experiments
  • Services: NodeRed, InfluxDB, Grafana, PiHole, Uptime Kuma, Observium

Kobol Helios64

  • ARM-based NAS running Armbian
  • 6C/6T - 4GB RAM
  • 128GB SSD for Boot
  • 3 x 1TB HDD as raid5 for storage
  • Services: personal Nextcloud instance, that I use for file sharing and synchronization between my devices and also as WebDAV target for Joplin

4-Port Firewall-Appliance

  • runs pfSense CE
  • 4C/4T - 4GB RAM
  • 128GB SSD for Boot
  • manages VLANs, DHCP and reverse proxy (HAProxy)

not in picture

  • managed switch: TP-Link TL-SG116E (looking to upgrade to a switch with some 2.5G Ports)
  • UPS: Eaton Ellipse ECO 650

All together this pulls around 60W from the wall. Happy to answer questions.

    • funky_dude@feddit.deOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      Tanks a lot. With usual ambient sounds and under normal load it is inaudible. When it’s rellay quiet in the room and I copy files, I can hear the disks clicking, but thats ok for me as I sleep in another room.

      I live in Germany, indeed. FRITZ!Box ist quiet popular here. Basicly I could choose to get a really crappy router or this box from my ISP. What made me add the pfSense box was the lack of VLANs in the Fritz.

    • funky_dude@feddit.deOP
      1·
      2 years ago

      Thanks! Yes, I would have loved to see more projects from the Kobol team. So far I’m quite happy with this low power NAS.