How it started: mp80
I bought a MiniPC (Blackview MP-80) to run Home Assistant and some lights etc. to go with it.

It’s now exactly one year later this is what my setup looks like now:
BMAX B2 Pro --> Home Assistant OS Blackview MP-80 --> Proxmox --> Nextcloud-AIO & Immich
ODROID H4+ --> Proxmox --> TrueNAS

How it’s going: odroid
With the heatwave in Europe I’ve now installed cooling to keep my HDD’s from heating up.

I know it’s Janky as hell, but I love it. The plan going forward is to buy a 3D Printer so that I can 3D Print a custom 10" rack, and I’ll build my own cooling and temperature monitoring system with ESP32 and create a dashboard for it in Home Assistant and sorting out networking.

It’s a work in progress, having a lot of fun learning and adding new things.

  • bigboitricky@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 hours ago

    I adore every piece of this

    My OG system had the whole side panel on the case ripped out where I stuck a fan because the CPU fan died, that was over a decade ago I love your setup <3

  • chug-capture-ahoy@piefed.socialEnglish
    2·
    2 hours ago

    I think u friki and i like u a lot. Hehehhe you should see mine, is all made of old repurposed garbage. Wtb Corsair peripherals ftw!

  • dis_honestfamiliar@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    2·
    7 hours ago

    That’s beautiful but I don’t understand why two pair of cables go into the fan (is that a PSU?) and only one yellow wire comes out. Also where the motherboard. Need answer

    • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      1·
      6 hours ago

      The black box is the mini PC (note the Ethernet cable going into it) and the yellow/red/black cable is a single SATA power cable, that is daisy chained. Going from the PC to the drive and then going back to the fan control board

      Edit: looks like it’s actually 3 SATA cables. Not daisy chained

  • Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.socialOPEnglish
    27·
    13 hours ago

    A lesson I learnt along the way:

    HDD’s on your desk are loud AF when you’re constantly writing to a database
    Solution: Everything except backups and Media run on SSD’s

    • Ptsf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      6 hours ago

      Depends on the drive too, I have some insanely loud Ironwolf drives and you would never guess they’re from the same manufacturer as my practically silent Exos X18s.

  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2·
    7 hours ago

    Yeah, it’s fine … wait, IronWolves in a living space? Paired with that acoustic desk it must be like a train yard, but with more vibrations :D.

    Edit: wrote this before I saw your comment acknowledging the same.
    Well, with HDD there is the noise of the drive itself (the constant one & the searches, spin-ups), and the vibrations which can get acoustically amplified. For the former you need a case, any case, maybe a case in a case (ventilated ofc), for the latter I’ve always (since late 90s) had my HDD on full rubber, no non-rubber connection to the case.

    My current NASies all use these (in desktop cases, I don’t like server hardware if it isn’t necessary, like with disks):

    (They cost like 2 monies with shipping.)

    So if going the 3D-print way, as you mentioned, I would def add the suggestion of incorporating thicc rubber pads or rubber straps into your design, like these ones (I’ve used them a lot decades ago, the only commercial option for silent PC enthusiasts at the time, but I’ve built then myself too):

    (It’s rigid, the disks won’t fall out.)

    • Bluefruit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 hours ago

      Yea not super thrilled with bambu lab for the privacy concerns but the printer itself is good. I just use it in lan only mode and block any outgoing network traffic on my router.

      But there are other brands that are good. Ive heard prusa is nice but never tried them.

    • Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      6·
      12 hours ago

      Thanks <3

      I’m going to go with the Sovol SV06 Plus ACE , I’m a big advocate for Open Source, so anything that requires proprietary software isn’t really an option for me.

      I live in a tiny apartment, so my biggest hurdle with getting a 3D printer right now is space.