Making mistakes is human. Making up for mistakes is truly a sign of strength. I really appreciate you taking criticism sincerely. It’s not self explanatory for content creators to admit or at least fixing their mistakes. So again huge probs to you taking the sponsorship out of the video!
for anyone looking into getting this rack keep in mind that although does have standard size mounting holes for the screws that hold the trays standard 10" or half rack shelves will not fit between the posts. if you want metal shelves youre limited to the shelves deskpi sells. really wish they would make an addon kit or revision to make the rack hold standard 222mm equipment
Love it! I think there is something to be said about having a "home lab" or desktop multi-platform development stack directly on your desk. Looks like fun.
This is well over a grand. This is super cool and I love seeing the tech RUclipsrs being open source and having fun with each other, but man this bit of kit is expensive. That said, you never mentioned it was cheap lol. Great video
wait a minute,, u guys need a cost limit , i was just trying to replace my R710 , with 3 Dell mini 7050 and 3 pi (Pi-hosted) , Flag on the field , your off the hook ,,.. I love it
Nice! This is a cool setup if you're just messing around at home. I would argue it's the purest form of HomeLab. Low power, low cost, modern and relevant, takes up little space and probably quiet enough that the Mk.1 Wife Unit won't complain about "those damn fans in the basement". As you outgrow any single part its standard enough to upgrade.
Nice video and rack. Check out a USB C trigger board. Get a couple of those and a GAN charger/power supply, and power multiple barrel jack devices off the same small GAN charger/power supply. Will save some space, help keep the cables tidy and use less outlets.
Do you think you can do a build for someone that’s going off grid? It would probably need home security, NAS, and remote capabilities. Low power but with lots of features would be the challenge. Cheers!
Nice to see another one in the Wild. I have one as well.I use 7" DWin Monitor that my son Engineered a 3D Plate so I can mount on the front. I have a couple of the small board trays behind it. I used a Beelink, with extra USB Ethernet so that I could pfSense for my firewall. I bought a Banana-Pi Mini-R3 for my wireless access into the my a rack, it sit on the top. I had an X1 from Youyeetoo ( 8G Model ), it's my Proxmox, which is running Minecraft Server, CasaOS, and Red Hat DNS. I bought DeskPi Super6 because I had several CM from different makers, so I am running a Fruit Salad of CM4 ( 3 x RPi, 2 x BPI, and OrangePi. ) I am running Debian 11 w/XFCE and libvirtd on the OrangePi CM-4 with XRDP installed. I remote into the Super6 there, and I am running my back up DNS as Arm Virtual host. The rest of the CM4 are going to be Mini-Kube setup. I have Raspberry Pi 5 and Libre Computer Renegade on the Small Board tray, the Renegade is hookup to a kvm that sits behind the monitor, use that work when I was at Southeast Linux Fest making sure everything was working. The RPi 5 is a GitLab server for my little lab. I found a cheap 8 Port PoE managed switch, but I won't recommend it. I have a Uctronics' Desk Rack, it nice 4 server high, that I have 4 x LibreComputer Renegades in that is a Docker Swarm Cluster that I am running 3 off PoE TPLink switch, the 4th I can't because of the 5V fan, but it nice to have a small lab in one area. Oh, because this has it own firewall now and WiFi, I create a new VLAN so that seperate from the other 3 networks in my house. Another part of my job is I have to be a Jack of all trades, most Network Engineers don't like you mess with their stuff, so another reason Home Lab are great. Since I live in George and my big rack is in my office. I powered down all the bare metal servers so that my electric bill isn't over 500. The small rack is nice because I can cont' to work on Ansible and Docker for my work. Plus, not die from the heat from the big rack. It nice to be able to travel with the rack too. it was a hit at the Southeast Linux Fest. A nice way to show that you don't need a lot of equipment to do home labbing. @TechnoTim yes only thing I truly hate is cable management. The rat nest next to the rack is UGLY. I have tired my best to control. I might buy another one as I like to see if I remove the handles can I stack it.
It's almost a toss. I like raid owls set up better, but you definitely won with your deployment and use cases. I'm leaning toward your build though, the setup is easy enough to adapt and mostly applies to aesthetics. Great job!
My mini review of this video. The Upsides: - You can eat the whole lunch white watching it - It encourages you to go and buy mini rack - It has no advertisement of certain VPN products The Downsides: - It has too many mini reviews, each with 3 Upsides and 3 Downsides - It makes you think about how much money and time people waste on their hobbies and how pointless the life is - In the end you'd still turn on Netflix to bing watch some show rerun
I think you should name it "Portable Home Lab"...!!! That can be tucked into a vehicle and can do home labing on the go...!!! I have see your post about this on social media earlier but I don't know why this came up into my mind while I was just in the intro...!!!😂🤣😅😉
Curious about enclosing in a case for better air flow and a door with a status screen to display desired realtime status such as processes, rsp, logmon.
The comments and description make a lot of sense, I got the gist that you were sponsored from the vibes in the intro and then heard "Review" and immediately stopped the video to check because it's a redflag to me only to discover you removed the sponsorship, I have to agree as someone who didn't watch the first video or anything it was absolutely the correct call.
Great project. I don't see the point of 10” racks, though. There aren't many real rackmount devices in that form factor, such as UPSs. It would be nice to see more 10” items, though, such as a nice Mac mini mount, decent switches, etc.
Tats pretty awesome. Id probably drop the K8s cluster, and have something like hot swappable Harddrives, for like Truenas or something, or some other way of managing storage. This way you can run 2 or 3 for HA proxmox machines, and have the storage be in the NAS. Run a few VM's in the proxmox cluster and a Docker VM as well. I am really digging that router and switch layout on top, its really hard to get that 2.5gb network speed to a mini pc but they are out there. You might need a 2nd switch though, and do something like link aggregation to the proxmox machines, to get like 5gbs internal speeds if thats something that is needed. Itd be nice to atleast have the option for a upgrade in that direction.
I just watched your video and I must say, it's absolutely incredible. The creativity, the storytelling, and the production quality are all top-notch. I'm genuinely impressed by the effort and thought you've put into it. Your work is inspiring and it's clear you have a real talent for this. Keep up the fantastic work!
Hi Tim, Can I place a rack style sever on my desktop? Now before you say why don't I just purchase a desktop model, I currently own a DS918+ which is now going on 8 years old. I may be looking to retire it as my backup server in the near future and I like the look of a rack style server. I'm also of the belief the operating the Hard Drives vertically rather than horizontally will extend the life of the drives. What are your thoughts?
the optimal way to setup opnsense is to set up an external wireless AP is it not or is it just a quick solution for if the wifi module does not load or is not compatible
A monitor that doesn't do or change anything without you telling it to isn't always a con. Sometimes it's extremely beneficial, especially when troubleshooting. It's a huge PITA when a monitor spends 30 seconds cycling through its inputs trying to auto detect signals while you're trying to read POST info or just get into a BIOS/UEFI. Just as annoying to think a machine isn't powering on because your monitor decided to save milliwatt-hours by turning itself off and not turning back on again. I actually have a pretty strong hatred for modern monitors and their designs like OSDs instead of real buttons. It's all preference there.
"For you metric people out there ..." Ah, the Empire strikes back at metric folks making fun of us with Imperial units (although I still find those jokes hilarious even being familiar with metric).
Insanely cool 👍. N100 and N200 can run 32gb ram (7:29) despite official specs; various ppl have shown this. Kindest regards, friends and neighbours. P.S. Thank you for many inspiring ideas for HL.
Thanks! I have seen on the internet that some have got it to recognize 32GB, but the official Intel spec for the CPU says 16GB. I am curious if it can really address all 32 or it's just showing that in the BIOS, maybe I should test it!
I think that the Homelab REALLY depends on what you're using/running/doing. My main Proxmox server nominally has a load average of 20 now. (With dual Xeon E5-2697A v4s) And my three node OASLOA Mini PC Proxmox cluster, I found out last night/this morning that one of the nodes had a load average of 40(!) (on a system with a 4-core CPU), whilst another node had a load average of 3.2 (80% CPU utilisation). So...depending on what you're doing, it is not difficult to push a homelab to its outer limits, especially in terms of compute capabilities.
This is exactly how a home lab should be - more surprised its completely isolated - dont need stupid crazy rack servers anymore - NUCs are the right way yeah you went some low end ones with not many cores at all which is good to start and just have your clusters and code.... best thing i did years ago was get rid of my servers and just have dell micro optiplex be the lab that are 9700 i7s with 32gb
@@TechnoTim No worries. The problem with the 10 inch rack is, that it limits the hardware you can chose. Even many small switches are too big or lack the 10'' rack mount kit. Then you have to use a compromise. Or devices are to deep and won' t fit propperly. However, for small form factor PCs, firewalls and the raspberry sized devices it is a nice option that would fit many places better than a 19 inch rack.
On the subject of your firewall, i wonder what sort of performance improvements they'll see with their next gen, which i assume will be an N100. Slightly lower TDP, but amazing performance. I wouldnt be surprised it you could get 5G or even 10G IPSEC performance with the N305. I've been playing around with a rather large itx SBC with an N100 that i had originally planned to use at my sister's house for Plex TV recordings replacing her old i5-6500 based system. Boy was i surprised that it was powerful enough to not only record live TV on plex, but also run a firewall and do motion and object recognition within frigate on 2x 1920p ultrawide security cameras (IDK the width but its 180 degrees ultrawide output using 2 sensors and 1920p tall) I might keep this board for myself and get the bigger atom with 8 cores (N305) for her, as we're planning to put 2 of these cameras on her her dog kennel/grooming shop and 2 on her house, and the little N100 was often around 80% usage with my 2 cameras. Also of note, i wont be deploying it with the firewall VM, as the host(trueNAS) can still see the ports which has me concerned. I'd much rather virtualise a file server on a firewall/router, than the other way around as if the server goes down or does an update, it also takes the firewall, DHCP/dns, and everything else with it.
I should note that if you want to get any of these Atom class processors, from the N95 to the N305, they struggle to address more than 16GB of RAM. I finally got 32GB of RAM working on my board, but i went through probably 5 or 6 kits of DDR5 SODIMM Lucky i had some laying around, unfortunately the only one that worked was one of the faster sticks in my 7840HS mini PC. Also of note, just because it posts with 32GB, doesnt mean it can use it all, 2 of these kits would post, but then only 16GB would be usable which the way i had truenas set up, actually took more than a day to discover on the first kit. Oh, and if you have 2 memory slots, you might find that you need to use a single 32GB stick rather than 2x16, like in my case.
@@TechnoTim there are a lot of similar connectors for audio and video (RCA/composite) but nobody uses them for the most part. You can get them from digikey but they are relatively expensive. I use panel mount connectors with front facing threads (just what I have laying around) and a nut soldered to the male side to interface with the threads. It's really nice for things I carry around or frequently poke around by.
10" racks are very common in Europe. I have had one since 2017 using 4x PI4s (CasaOS, 3D Print Fram server, 2x Portainer with various networking apps), TP Omaha networking (2.5Gb Networking & 2.5Gb Gateway), 1x TerraMaster F2-423 (TrueNas Scale) and 1x NUC (Ubuntu, for random projects, plex, etc.). Recently I have added a 3d printed Mini ITX Case that can house a rtx 3060 12Gb for light weight ML and AI projects. Nothing special, but everything is neatly packed away, also it is easy on my monthly power bill.
No bias here at all but I think that Raid Owl guy won. Right guys??? Right...?
Buy a damn threadripper already, bro! Then you can win.
Don't forget to sub Raid Owl if you haven't already, even though he had a lesser build 😅
Just know your place as a power bottom. Tim topped you on this one 😂
I believe you’ll get a dub against a Tech RUclipsr one of these days
@@itznolimitz This joke has come back to haunt me lol
Making mistakes is human. Making up for mistakes is truly a sign of strength. I really appreciate you taking criticism sincerely. It’s not self explanatory for content creators to admit or at least fixing their mistakes. So again huge probs to you taking the sponsorship out of the video!
Thanks! Sorry I let you all down the first time. Appreciate you coming back!
And it only cost $17,000.
I busted out laughing at "RGB to make it faster" in the intro 😂
Thank you for dropping temu!
I love the review.
And I love the number of creators that are represented in this video.
9:26 you're welcome!
@@JeffGeerling 🙏✌️
Normally I just enjoy youtube without having opinions about sponsor etc. But I think Tim did the right thing here
for anyone looking into getting this rack keep in mind that although does have standard size mounting holes for the screws that hold the trays standard 10" or half rack shelves will not fit between the posts. if you want metal shelves youre limited to the shelves deskpi sells. really wish they would make an addon kit or revision to make the rack hold standard 222mm equipment
Love it! I think there is something to be said about having a "home lab" or desktop multi-platform development stack directly on your desk. Looks like fun.
“Need your computer cooled, put a little Noc Tua on that thang!”
lol good one 😆
Noc-tua spin on that thang.
This is well over a grand. This is super cool and I love seeing the tech RUclipsrs being open source and having fun with each other, but man this bit of kit is expensive. That said, you never mentioned it was cheap lol. Great video
wait a minute,, u guys need a cost limit , i was just trying to replace my R710 , with 3 Dell mini 7050 and 3 pi (Pi-hosted) , Flag on the field , your off the hook ,,.. I love it
Awesome and also great that you ditched the sponsor
Why do you hate sponsors?
@@joeyeasterling149 i don’t. The is a re-upload because there were a lot of comments on the first upload about this specific sponsor!
Great video! I'd still love to see one of these in a wall mountable version.
Thx Tim, i am back again on this vid. Happy to see it again. ;-)
With great power much is required.
Winner Winner Chicken dinner: You knocked it out of this world Tim.
Thank you!
Nice! This is a cool setup if you're just messing around at home. I would argue it's the purest form of HomeLab. Low power, low cost, modern and relevant, takes up little space and probably quiet enough that the Mk.1 Wife Unit won't complain about "those damn fans in the basement". As you outgrow any single part its standard enough to upgrade.
Yes just don’t buy it all at once! For most this is so overboard to start out with! Final form yes, inception no :)
... mk 1 wife unit? really? yikes
What was the final price tag on this setup 💸💸💸
Fantastic video! Appreciate it @Techno Tim! Cheers!
I can watch this over and over again, this heals my OCD so well 🤣
Nice video and rack.
Check out a USB C trigger board. Get a couple of those and a GAN charger/power supply, and power multiple barrel jack devices off the same small GAN charger/power supply. Will save some space, help keep the cables tidy and use less outlets.
What's the bill to set this up ? 🙂
I think you reuploaded again because I saw it before. But still I can watch it over and over again.
Do you think you can do a build for someone that’s going off grid? It would probably need home security, NAS, and remote capabilities. Low power but with lots of features would be the challenge. Cheers!
cool project! nice job! thanks tim!
holy smokes that KVM stuff looks awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The switches that are slightly too wide, mount the shelf upside down and place the switch in from the rear, job done.
Nice to see another one in the Wild. I have one as well.I use 7" DWin Monitor that my son Engineered a 3D Plate so I can mount on the front. I have a couple of the small board trays behind it. I used a Beelink, with extra USB Ethernet so that I could pfSense for my firewall. I bought a Banana-Pi Mini-R3 for my wireless access into the my a rack, it sit on the top. I had an X1 from Youyeetoo ( 8G Model ), it's my Proxmox, which is running Minecraft Server, CasaOS, and Red Hat DNS. I bought DeskPi Super6 because I had several CM from different makers, so I am running a Fruit Salad of CM4 ( 3 x RPi, 2 x BPI, and OrangePi. ) I am running Debian 11 w/XFCE and libvirtd on the OrangePi CM-4 with XRDP installed. I remote into the Super6 there, and I am running my back up DNS as Arm Virtual host. The rest of the CM4 are going to be Mini-Kube setup. I have Raspberry Pi 5 and Libre Computer Renegade on the Small Board tray, the Renegade is hookup to a kvm that sits behind the monitor, use that work when I was at Southeast Linux Fest making sure everything was working. The RPi 5 is a GitLab server for my little lab. I found a cheap 8 Port PoE managed switch, but I won't recommend it.
I have a Uctronics' Desk Rack, it nice 4 server high, that I have 4 x LibreComputer Renegades in that is a Docker Swarm Cluster that I am running 3 off PoE TPLink switch, the 4th I can't because of the 5V fan, but it nice to have a small lab in one area.
Oh, because this has it own firewall now and WiFi, I create a new VLAN so that seperate from the other 3 networks in my house. Another part of my job is I have to be a Jack of all trades, most Network Engineers don't like you mess with their stuff, so another reason Home Lab are great.
Since I live in George and my big rack is in my office. I powered down all the bare metal servers so that my electric bill isn't over 500. The small rack is nice because I can cont' to work on Ansible and Docker for my work. Plus, not die from the heat from the big rack. It nice to be able to travel with the rack too. it was a hit at the Southeast Linux Fest. A nice way to show that you don't need a lot of equipment to do home labbing.
@TechnoTim yes only thing I truly hate is cable management. The rat nest next to the rack is UGLY. I have tired my best to control. I might buy another one as I like to see if I remove the handles can I stack it.
I've stuffed power bricks in a box like that. Might be worth the trouble to add a vent and a fan. They can get quite warm.
The technical and "fun" value of this built are clear. But what's the dollar price tag of this nice home lab?
That HDMI splitter/multiplexer is just what I'm looking for - cheers for the brand name....
It's almost a toss. I like raid owls set up better, but you definitely won with your deployment and use cases. I'm leaning toward your build though, the setup is easy enough to adapt and mostly applies to aesthetics. Great job!
@@Justin-ip3kj thank you! All good! I love Raid Owl’s build too! No hard feelings! Super fun to build 😀
I think I re-watch this one but I love it still
My mini review of this video.
The Upsides:
- You can eat the whole lunch white watching it
- It encourages you to go and buy mini rack
- It has no advertisement of certain VPN products
The Downsides:
- It has too many mini reviews, each with 3 Upsides and 3 Downsides
- It makes you think about how much money and time people waste on their hobbies and how pointless the life is
- In the end you'd still turn on Netflix to bing watch some show rerun
I think you should name it "Portable Home Lab"...!!! That can be tucked into a vehicle and can do home labing on the go...!!! I have see your post about this on social media earlier but I don't know why this came up into my mind while I was just in the intro...!!!😂🤣😅😉
Thanks Tim.
Curious about enclosing in a case for better air flow and a door with a status screen to display desired realtime status such as processes, rsp, logmon.
The comments and description make a lot of sense, I got the gist that you were sponsored from the vibes in the intro and then heard "Review" and immediately stopped the video to check because it's a redflag to me only to discover you removed the sponsorship, I have to agree as someone who didn't watch the first video or anything it was absolutely the correct call.
Thanks! The sponsor was a 60 sec ad spot, not related to anyone who sent the review units, a totally different company.
Great project. I don't see the point of 10” racks, though. There aren't many real rackmount devices in that form factor, such as UPSs. It would be nice to see more 10” items, though, such as a nice Mac mini mount, decent switches, etc.
Tats pretty awesome. Id probably drop the K8s cluster, and have something like hot swappable Harddrives, for like Truenas or something, or some other way of managing storage. This way you can run 2 or 3 for HA proxmox machines, and have the storage be in the NAS. Run a few VM's in the proxmox cluster and a Docker VM as well. I am really digging that router and switch layout on top, its really hard to get that 2.5gb network speed to a mini pc but they are out there. You might need a 2nd switch though, and do something like link aggregation to the proxmox machines, to get like 5gbs internal speeds if thats something that is needed. Itd be nice to atleast have the option for a upgrade in that direction.
You know the full phrase is
"Jack of all trades, master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one."
Great video, Thanks!
Does the rack come with a few accessories such as blank plate, tray as default? or just an empty rack?
GEIL !!!!
Hey I've seen this one before :)
"You can't have - it's brand new..."
@@declanmcardle I see it before too. It was re-uploaded for sponsor reason.
I just watched your video and I must say, it's absolutely incredible. The creativity, the storytelling, and the production quality are all top-notch. I'm genuinely impressed by the effort and thought you've put into it. Your work is inspiring and it's clear you have a real talent for this. Keep up the fantastic work!
Hi Tim, Can I place a rack style sever on my desktop? Now before you say why don't I just purchase a desktop model, I currently own a DS918+ which is now going on 8 years old. I may be looking to retire it as my backup server in the near future and I like the look of a rack style server. I'm also of the belief the operating the Hard Drives vertically rather than horizontally will extend the life of the drives. What are your thoughts?
You've been served great owl lol
Damn, now I want to make a rack to bring to LAN partys
I have absolutely been looking for something like this......perfection. Awesome little rack!
"...for my Dad..." Next frame: _everything_ is labelled...both ends,,,
@@declanmcardle “Things you do for your parents when you can’t be there to plug things in yourself for $100” 😂
Nice to see you ditched the old sponsor so quickly
What would you recommend for cctv for home? I have bunch of axis and uniview cameras . Im looking for something that would work with both. Thanks
Good video.
the optimal way to setup opnsense is to set up an external wireless AP is it not or is it just a quick solution for if the wifi module does not load or is not compatible
A monitor that doesn't do or change anything without you telling it to isn't always a con. Sometimes it's extremely beneficial, especially when troubleshooting. It's a huge PITA when a monitor spends 30 seconds cycling through its inputs trying to auto detect signals while you're trying to read POST info or just get into a BIOS/UEFI. Just as annoying to think a machine isn't powering on because your monitor decided to save milliwatt-hours by turning itself off and not turning back on again. I actually have a pretty strong hatred for modern monitors and their designs like OSDs instead of real buttons. It's all preference there.
What LED light is used inside?
4:33 what did he call that, a "120 mm Hawk Tuah fan?"
"For you metric people out there ..." Ah, the Empire strikes back at metric folks making fun of us with Imperial units (although I still find those jokes hilarious even being familiar with metric).
damn that is pretty damn cool!
Thank you.
Insanely cool 👍. N100 and N200 can run 32gb ram (7:29) despite official specs; various ppl have shown this.
Kindest regards, friends and neighbours.
P.S. Thank you for many inspiring ideas for HL.
Thanks! I have seen on the internet that some have got it to recognize 32GB, but the official Intel spec for the CPU says 16GB. I am curious if it can really address all 32 or it's just showing that in the BIOS, maybe I should test it!
@@TechnoTim Works in memtest for me. Single 32gb ddr4 sodimm in a n100. Ripjaws 3200 CL 22-22-22-52 1.20V.
@@chromerims awesome!
I think that the Homelab REALLY depends on what you're using/running/doing.
My main Proxmox server nominally has a load average of 20 now. (With dual Xeon E5-2697A v4s)
And my three node OASLOA Mini PC Proxmox cluster, I found out last night/this morning that one of the nodes had a load average of 40(!) (on a system with a 4-core CPU), whilst another node had a load average of 3.2 (80% CPU utilisation).
So...depending on what you're doing, it is not difficult to push a homelab to its outer limits, especially in terms of compute capabilities.
For sure! Good luck on tracking down what's using up all the CPU!
@@TechnoTim
Actually, I already know (what's using up all that CPU).
Looking Awesom, my server is so boring :(
Hi, do you have a video showcasing the parts of your main home lab rack?
Hi, I do! It's here ruclips.net/video/r4NCofJyOHE/видео.html
What do you think about Cosmos Server?
This is exactly how a home lab should be - more surprised its completely isolated - dont need stupid crazy rack servers anymore - NUCs are the right way yeah you went some low end ones with not many cores at all which is good to start and just have your clusters and code.... best thing i did years ago was get rid of my servers and just have dell micro optiplex be the lab that are 9700 i7s with 32gb
I guess it's more portable and a bit lighter than my 47U
@@espressomatic just a little 😅
The only thing you are missing is more RGB lights
Wait
! How much did this setup cost you?????
Open source means update for life?
That's new.
Sorry, yeah, odd choice of words. I should have said "access to the code for life". Thanks for keeping me honest.
@@TechnoTim No worries.
The problem with the 10 inch rack is, that it limits the hardware you can chose. Even many small switches are too big or lack the 10'' rack mount kit. Then you have to use a compromise.
Or devices are to deep and won' t fit propperly.
However, for small form factor PCs, firewalls and the raspberry sized devices it is a nice option that would fit many places better than a 19 inch rack.
Dude where do I get that neon tube?!!
Ahhhh stop it! Makes me want to get more stuff. That lil rack is so cute! =^.^=
BSD-based firewall and network drivers issue strikes again.
Hi tim you are wrong on the 16gb ram I am running mine with 32gb ram. even thought its N100
On the subject of your firewall, i wonder what sort of performance improvements they'll see with their next gen, which i assume will be an N100. Slightly lower TDP, but amazing performance. I wouldnt be surprised it you could get 5G or even 10G IPSEC performance with the N305.
I've been playing around with a rather large itx SBC with an N100 that i had originally planned to use at my sister's house for Plex TV recordings replacing her old i5-6500 based system.
Boy was i surprised that it was powerful enough to not only record live TV on plex, but also run a firewall and do motion and object recognition within frigate on 2x 1920p ultrawide security cameras (IDK the width but its 180 degrees ultrawide output using 2 sensors and 1920p tall) I might keep this board for myself and get the bigger atom with 8 cores (N305) for her, as we're planning to put 2 of these cameras on her her dog kennel/grooming shop and 2 on her house, and the little N100 was often around 80% usage with my 2 cameras.
Also of note, i wont be deploying it with the firewall VM, as the host(trueNAS) can still see the ports which has me concerned. I'd much rather virtualise a file server on a firewall/router, than the other way around as if the server goes down or does an update, it also takes the firewall, DHCP/dns, and everything else with it.
I should note that if you want to get any of these Atom class processors, from the N95 to the N305, they struggle to address more than 16GB of RAM. I finally got 32GB of RAM working on my board, but i went through probably 5 or 6 kits of DDR5 SODIMM Lucky i had some laying around, unfortunately the only one that worked was one of the faster sticks in my 7840HS mini PC.
Also of note, just because it posts with 32GB, doesnt mean it can use it all, 2 of these kits would post, but then only 16GB would be usable which the way i had truenas set up, actually took more than a day to discover on the first kit.
Oh, and if you have 2 memory slots, you might find that you need to use a single 32GB stick rather than 2x16, like in my case.
yes but i think my pile of components in the corner of the room looks much cooler
amazing build, the price for non RUclipsrs is ... well ... not wife approved.
How much would this build cost?
Hmmm, this is interesting
What is this used for?
This is lacking a Gavin Belson signature.
"And it only cost me more than most of you make a year!"
But can you build a mini ubiquiti rack?
I wish more connectors were locking.
@@haxwithaxe agreed! I have only ever seen this on microphones until now!
@@TechnoTim there are a lot of similar connectors for audio and video (RCA/composite) but nobody uses them for the most part. You can get them from digikey but they are relatively expensive. I use panel mount connectors with front facing threads (just what I have laying around) and a nut soldered to the male side to interface with the threads. It's really nice for things I carry around or frequently poke around by.
Where to find tutorial. To make something like this? 😅
So many mini reviews. Reminds me of infomercial’s
Gimme gimmie 😮
I think I'm going to borrow ideas from both of you guys.
my girlfriend got a new rack also . money well spend i must say
I want one so bad
Mannnn. I'm jealous! This looks so sick!
Its the same mini rack that is like only going to get more expensive on Amazon now.
12 Inches is 30cm or 300mm.
Esphome for wake on Lan dude!
"Open source means updates for life" only if you can code them yourself.
10" racks are very common in Europe. I have had one since 2017 using 4x PI4s (CasaOS, 3D Print Fram server, 2x Portainer with various networking apps), TP Omaha networking (2.5Gb Networking & 2.5Gb Gateway), 1x TerraMaster F2-423 (TrueNas Scale) and 1x NUC (Ubuntu, for random projects, plex, etc.). Recently I have added a 3d printed Mini ITX Case that can house a rtx 3060 12Gb for light weight ML and AI projects. Nothing special, but everything is neatly packed away, also it is easy on my monthly power bill.
Didn't you colo recently too?
RGB to make it faster!! hahahaha