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OMG, just strip the cord and screw the wires in directly….
"They got really got once I put 10 gift cards in them" — I believe, 'They got really HOT once I put 10 GIG cards in them'
The setup you're looking at 23:25 is just a network cabinet setup but on a wall. The stuff inside the wall is telcomm stuff, its just data and phone lines punched down onto a 110 block. None of that stuff is high voltage. Lastly, the orange plug you're looking at is an RJ-45 jack with an ethernet cable plugged in. The jack in question is a faceplate style, meaning it gets mounted into a faceplate on a wall outlet.
Had I known earlier that you are doing a video like this I'd have sent over some pics of my Homelab for sure!
Network:
– TP-Link Archer C7 wireless router
– runs OpenWRT
– dual WAN via 1 cable modem and 1 LTE router)
– TP-Link TL-SG1016D 16 Port unmanaged switch
PCs/Servers:
– Fujitsu Esprimo
– Intel Core 2 Duo E8500
– 8 GB RAM
– Nvidia Tesla P4
– runs Proxmox VE
– provides a Pihole, a NAS (10TB), Jellyfin, Ollama and a bunch of other services
– SUN SPARC T4-1 (just to play around a bit with it ^^)
– HP ProLiant DL360 G6
– 2x Intel Xeon X5550
– 48GB RAM
– runs Proxmox VE
– used for video transcoding
– DELL PowerEdge 850
– Intel Pentium 4 HT
– 8GB DDR-2 RAM
– runs Ubuntu Server
– currently used for backups only
Misc:
– 1x Monitor ASUS VA27EHE (27" 16:9)
– 2x Monitor Acer V193WL (19" 16:10)
– 2x USV (1 for the Fujitsu + all network gear except the cable modem, 1 for the main monitor, studio lights and the speakers – this setup can run about 90 minutes on battery)
And everything except the misc stuff and the cable modem is inside my desk ^^
9:05 Running a HomeLab and not using SSH is crazy…
I was so lucky on rlly good prices when I was building my aliexpress homelab… e5-2630l v4 for $14, 64gb ECC(samsung) ddr4 for $50 and mb for $30, chilling on 32w and full blast on ~84w
36:56 I'm guessing they meant to say "They got really hot once I put 10gig cards in them"? That would explain why they removed the top covers and let there be a bunch of space above the 10g cards.
If I could just see it all, like a homelab on the wall…
Why does nobody use cases? 😂 you can literally get them for free if you go 2nd hand
From what I saw there seams to be a commnon theme of people reusing parts from their first (gaming?) PC to start their homelab. Nice to see resusing older parts 👍
🐈/ 10
Ok, you may have seen wall-mounted homelabs , but hear me out…
Ceiling-mounted servers
(I unironically want to do that now)
"…I guess I'll need a ladder for that"
🤣🤣🤣👻 I'm ded
Now I want to create a home lab! Love you Wolfgang, and thanx for the reminder, "power strips exist." 🤟🏼🥴🤘🏼
i have no clue about my power consumption and am too scared (running enterprise networking and a dl380p g9 + threadripper)
16:25 The homelab equivalent of a serial killer?
"some ketch and mustard cables…." got me cracking!!.
please more video like this
Can you please show how sonarr radarr or the whole arr network works in Germany? I don’t get it to work somehow 🙃
this was a fun watch
yay cats
in 31:20 you said SSDs will help in power consumption. Why?
That one from Felix near the end should read that 'it got really HOT after he put the 10GBit NICs in it'. I think… hence the open units in the rack mount front panels
I used it all throughout the years, PC cases, 19" cases, open stands, mobos laying around, sure as hell skipping 19" racks, but you name it..
And in the end I now have my water cooled desktop in an open upside down bench and my shielded rack corner is definitely moving from Fractal cases to cutom wall mounts.
Those people in the video got the hunch.
I actually love these setups, it's showcasing that all you need for a beginner homelab is a working hardware and there's nothing complicated involved.
9:08 thats pretty cheap. well 6 rubles a kwh isnt alot to begin with. so guess where that cheapness is coming from
In which software can I make something similar like in 12:03 ?
I think the aversion to using cases for home servers stems from "Well, I have all the other parts, and why spend $40-60 on a case when I can spend that same amount for a few extra TB of storage?" 🙃
That homemade bomb aesthetic is strong.
14:11 is the best webcam I've seen in my whole life (kidding)
Come for the jank, stay for the disrespect
I've a question for the submitter at 28:41 : Why you put the system out of the notebook enclosure? You said the hinge was broken, but you could still fix its position with an L bracket or screwing it on the wood with the case on, protecting it from dust, water and probably also cat attacks ahahahhahahha
Why does every submission talk about wattage and the electricity bill? Its okey to think about the electricity bill but com on? This is a homelab not ”get the most effective power consumption competition”
And here I thought I was living on the edge keeping a bare Z170 miniITX board on my shelf without standoffs, enclosures, anything at all (running proxmox with pfsense and ubuntu server next to network gear), while the side plates that form a 3.5" 'bay' are held together only with the screws inside the hard drives.
At least it's Christmas themed with all the color-coded UTP cables! Yellow from ONT, blue to pi-hole, red to pfsense wan, green from pfsense lan, white to router.
I just hope for the sake of my ISP that they never have to troubleshoot the ONT… because giving them a rundown of my network would be like trying to explain to a five-year-old how Santa gets to all the houses in a single night. You just don’t even try, you just say 'magic.'
When I see all these janky homelab setups, mine suddenly isn't quite so bad. I'll have to organise it anyway. Maybe get a small shelf to put the components on.
Thanks for including my setup, 37:14 is the sketchy setup, aio is not screwed in as it doesn’t fit in the case.
Didn’t want to include all my sketchy stuff, I too have a bunch of raspberry pi’s lying around without a case and cable spaghetti right behind that IKEA tv stand.
New setup is a 6U case, power usage is at 200w.
Also WinServer 2016 has been replaced with Windows Server 2025 Data centre edition 🤣.
I agree she is “Overkill” but I really wanted that headroom to push it and for it to last a long time. ❤
Edit: Oh and have have intentions to throw my 4090 in there later down the line 😀
wo kann ich das überhaupt schicken?
Wenn du mein Homelab siehst fängst du an zu heulen weil es so schlimm ist aber ich kanns ja mal rüber schicken
Great video, thanks Wolfgang.
Thanks for the feature <3
14:34 The screwdriver is there so the case and the support it's sitting on don't get too close; otherwise, if the two halves get too close together, the radioactive core underneath will go prompt critical and release fatal amounts of ionizing radiation into the desk. This guy definitely learned from the Demon Core.
Ketchup & Mustard cables 😂😂😂😂
16:23 Hey, Thanks for checking out my NAS!
I guess a bit of backstory was that at that time, I was 14, my mother asked me to spice up her office pc and as a result, I got that LGA 775 board. Now I didnt know what to do with it but after some discord conversation with some friends they said I should try using it for a NAS or something like that. I was like okay sure. Since I wasnt fully commited at first, I figured okay then ill just get the ikea pegboard, thinking if it doesnt work out I can just make it as a display piece. The other reason was that I didnt know where else to put a mid sized case in my room, while the ikea pegboard is relatively slim that I can just strap to the drawer. Also as a bonus, the pegboard was wayy cheaper than any new case or at least cleaner than any used one AHAHAH.
Those fans were just random fans I had laying around, and to be fair they work, drives never touch low 40s with them
Anyways thank you for the review!
The last one from "Felix" appears to have speech-to-text goofs. Here is probably what he meant to say: "They got really HOT once I put the 10 GIG cards in them".
I'm looking at all these power figures and…oof.
My core switch alone idles at like 60w. Add in the 4x other switches and It's like…140w.
My main Proxmox/NAS used to be ~140w average but is now ~200w. Enterprise U.2 drives are surprisingly hungry.
Another thing to note is how power hungry memory can be. My 8x sticks of DDR4 ECC use ~60w.
Any chance for a future episode? I didn't know about this now I kinda want to send in my homelab for roasting.