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0:00 Intro
0:17 What is Home Labbing?
2:01 Into The AM
2:56 Why do we home lab?
4:51 How to get into home labbing?
6:11 Which OS to go with?
6:40 Proxmox
7:55 TrueNAS
9:47 Unraid
11:35 Windows
12:33 Hardware requirements
13:45 Conclusion
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Regarding hardware choice. As a long time home-labber (going on 20+ years now), the "enterprise" hardware is the sexiest…It's also the most limiting. Great! You built your file server off of 15k RPM SAS drives! … One failed. Now you have to buy a new one. ๐ Or, wonderful! You've got ECC memory! … You only have 32 gigs of it until you can shell out the money for more. Don't even get me started on the nitty gritty about the different types of ECC and which vendors support which types.
Consumer grade equipment is often less expensive, and faster. It's not as sexy, but dollar for dollar, it'll be a better fit for your home lab, generally speaking.
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Why? Because I have saved us over $400 PER MONTH in subscriptions by finding and hosting free open source alternatives. Suck it MRR corporate greed.
I started out just setting up a NAS with only local access for my parents with an RPi 4 Openmediavault and a HDD. My dad always has issues, and I'm not there to play tech support… I then got an old i7 4770 PC, put OMV on it and ZFS two HDDs for my data. I learned to set up a wireguard vpn to access it from anywhere, set up nextcloud, and pihole in docker containers. That was when I really understood the power of my server, because I could upload the pictures I took every day to my NAS from Italy, and I could access websites just like from home. Folders on my phone get automatically uploaded to nextcloud, no need to pay for google space! Home labbing for me is a lot of fun, and I get a usually functional product at the end! I'm going to upgrade to tailscale and host nextcloud for my parents, brother, and fiance, and maybe even a jellyfin server is in the cards.
Itโs an easy way to make use of your old unused systems.
I loved the thumbnail. It makes me feel happy.
I do not know if you know this, but VMware is free for personal use on Windows, and VMware lets you host TrueNAS with hard drive pass-through. I am saying this because with VirtualBox, I tried to do a hard drive pass-through it didn't let me because every time I try to make a pool, it's always losing the hard drive, but VMware has the option of hard drive pass-through, so VMware makes it easy to host a TrueNAS server pulsed other hosting application. VirtualBox and VMware are two good option to use on Windows computers if you want to host applications.
I call Bingo on all these homelaber guys – watching and subscribed to all of them! What price have I won? ๐ฌ๐คช๐
Only people missing are LevelOne tech, Network Chuck, Linus, and Craft computing.
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I am a bit disappointed that Wolfgang isn't in the … gang.
But the guide is solid for beginners. Thank you.
One thing that makes con of unraid acceptable is that you have perpetual licence which is if i am gonna pay for good software good thing so if i need it one thing i'll do is fork up 249 usd and not have to worry about licence for the rest of my life. This why if i find myself in need of unraid i will get lifetime because i am old school and prefer ownership over subscription.
Thank you for the video. Based on this, I now plan on trying out TrueNAS on an i7-2600, 16GB DDR3, and 4x2TB SSDs as the storage pool. If TrueNAS easily creates a ZFS array with sane settings, thatโs far better than doing it all myself; I have barely enough knowledge to set up ZFS-on-Root, following the OpenZFS guide for Debian.
Itโs gonna be for samba and Plex/Jellyfin. I have no significant server needs past that; I already have a pi with PiHole, so my networkโs covered there ๐
"Don't look away". Ha!
Unraid's ability to use multiple siz wed drives is what sold it for me. I had a couple 8tb, 10tb, and 12tb drives and it was really the only option
Heโs spot on. I canโt tell you how many times Iโve been onboarded to new projects at work because I already had experience in the technology from home labbing.
Just a FYI. Storage Spaces will do the pooling of various drive sizes with redundancy. It'll even do multi-parity drive configurations. Works by placing the drives in a pool, then when you make the virtual disks you select the amount of parity you want.
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I'm homelabing because I don't think Google,Amazon, etc. Has great intentions with my information
I can't call my single home server a "homelab", but I was planning on having a media center PC to watch movies on when I've friends come by. Then I said "why don't I expand the use case for this PC since I also want to keep backups as well? One thing brought the other and basically my home server is now a backup/media center/nas/game server thing.
OMV preacher Here. MergerFS + snapRaid do the consolidation of drives with redundancy on OMV
Love the homelab YouTube creator community. No jealousy, just support and good fun
๐ข good to know I'm not a weirdo for taking an interest in this stuff
I got into Home Labbing waaaaaaay back in the late 90s, early 2000s. We're talking back when Pentiums of whatever brand was there. The reason was simple. I'd want to run game servers on one computer, while I played the game on my "main rig" of the time. Then file sharing across the rest of the house where I'd run a PC with a phat multi-gigabyte drive and share files with all the other computers in the house. Running mIRC on one machine to act as a channel admin bot while I "logged off" my main machine. Then I started to work for a computer shop and that dealt with learning Linux to a small degree, and learned a little bit about virtualization. I'd run small web servers, and applications, and file servers and all that kinda stuff on "retired from gaming" systems after upgrading.
I now run a 3-server set of retired server grade hardware, amounting to about 600gig of RAM, 104 threads worth of CPU, couple tens of TBs of drive space, and so on. At home. Running in my basement. Locked down and barely exposed to the internet.
I have a dedicated PC for my programming machine, obviously my main gaming rig, two gaming laptops, my wife has her own set of machines, my kids have their own gaming machines.
If I train them right, my two dogs and cat would have their own machines. The rabbits don't show any interest in tech.
But seriously, having the 3-server set, it's fantastic. Proxmox on the machines, and when I need a 'Nix machine up and going, 20 minutes later, done (With all the patching and downloading, etc).
Cant wait for all the home labbers to switch to XCPNG once their new eye candy Xen Orch 6 gets released ๐
Just because something cost money doesn't mean it's good. Money doesn't make it better.
I don't say Unraid is bad, just making a point.
I can also say the same about free software, just because it's free doesn't make it good.
Back in the day when TrueNAS was called FreeNAS, they recommended to run it on a USB stick.
But they changed their mind because a USB stick have a tendency to break very fast and are unreliable.
I have network issues on Linux stuff. I usually get about half of the speed I should get.
If I have a 1 Gbit network I get about 500 Mbit. With 10 Gbit network cards I get about 2 – 4 Gbit
For me, I started out by getting a Pi Zero W to block ads using Pi-hole. I then started doing some smart home stuff with Homebridge and Infinitude (it allows me to control our smart thermostat locally — only works with Bryant ones tho). Then eventually during Uni I meet some friends and they got me into the idea of running a NAS (TrueNAS) and Home Assistant, and from there I've branched out a lot and have many things self hosted. I've learned a ton and it's made my life a lot easier (better smart home stuff, easier storage management, etc.)
Great video, thanks for including me
Omg you added all my favorite tech YouTubers in one video! Thanks Brett!!
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โSomething that supports ddr4โ
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So many people confuse HomeLab with HomeProd, and thus it seems to have way more people than it actually does.
Thanks for justifying my insane hobby. Keep up the great work!
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