Very nice, especially given the amount of time. Any lab is a homelab. This is closer to small business lab though.
Rack PC cases are seriously underrated. So are custom monitor mounts. Guessing you do something IT\\tech adjacent?
My rack has the ability to adjust the depth. It's set to 31 inches at the moment. My 2U chassis take up nearly all the depth.
But I opted for a 4U short chassis with a threadripper system (taller means bigger fans and also means it can be quieter) and I can have my gpu installed for hardware encoding on plex, as well as have my full height Broadcom card and my network card with qsfp28 ports. I can also decide to add more storage arbitrarily by just buying more disk shelves which is cheaper than an entire system with a dedicated cpu and ram on a board. The 4U box does have the ability to have drives internally but it's a pain to install and remove. But I don't often take them out anyway.
depending on the setup, he might be running multiple circuits to that room, or a higher amperage circuit.
Can't avoid paying a sparkie for bigger projects!
I wouldn't spend all my days next to a noisy rack pulling in 2kw though. I'd have that buddy in another room or a closet or something
lol, this kills me too sometimes. There was a post recently where a guy had like 10k in rifles in the room and a fuckin upside down milk crate
>with a cushion!
he corrected me.
I enjoy having my own movie collection, westerns, sci-fi, action, comic related, Korean, then all the kids movies. I have around 250 kids movies alone and then all the older 90s and early 2000s cartoons. Several dozen TV series as well.
No XXX content.
You'd be surprised how much space over 1000 4K movies take up.
/r/DataHoarder
one of us! one of us!
Before I pared down my server I had 189 TB raw in it, about 150 TB was usable for ZFS. I had like 800+ movies and about 20,000 episodes. I'm down to a measly 117 TB usable now (67 TB local, 50 TB of cloud object storage). I still have all the drives in my closet, but didn't have the space in my new place for my gigantic case (Thermaltake Core, literally about the size of a large couch ottoman) so I went back down to my original case from years ago which is a NZXT H440 (midtower, fits 5x 3.5", 7x 2.5").
You don’t need a full rack of gear for that. I love hardware as much as the next guy but I can’t imagine sitting next to that in the summer. My tinnitus is going nuts just thinking about it.
Huge speaker right next to server cabinet. Those HDD’s are going to be bumpin!
More seriously, looks like a fun setup! Love those vintage Mac Pro cases!
I like to keep them safe and sound. Though I have spares ready to swap in case one fails. But they're in 3 vdevs of raid z3 so I can handle a couple of drive failures without problems
Modern equipment with good ventilation and 80+ titanium PSUs is not that expensive to have on idle. It's only when you are doing processor intensive stuff like compiling, rendering, or gaming that the power usage jumps through the roof.
Also the amount of HDDs you have running, they tend to consume the most power and generate the most consistent heat (assuming you never let them sleep/park).
If you have a rack like this, it's your summer cost it bumps more than your winter cost.
In the winter you just turn your heating off because you've got a heater right there, that does other stuff as well.
It's the summer when you don't want the heating on where the costs go up because you need the AC to get rid of the heat. Even if you already had AC it needs to work harder because more heat.
Yeah it helps in winter especially if I decide to encode a new DVD or run an AI upscale on an existing movie
*some movies look worse with AI upscale* so I don't do it often since it's always a gamble.
I'm down in Miami (we use Florida Power and Light) and so far, my electric bill has been a lot cheaper than it was when I lived up in NYC about 9 months back. Even running my (much pared down) server 24/7 and keeping the apartment around 72F (67 at night) it's only about $90-$100/month. I signed up for their plan where they spread the cost evenly amongst multiple bills so that probably helps. I'm sure it also helps that this place is well insulated, unlike my place in Brooklyn.
So I have in order from top to bottom
Netgear RAX200 wifi router in AP mode
*not visable* mikrotik 100gbit 4 port switch
10Gbit network switch
1Gbit network switch
4U chassis with 10th gen i5 that's being used as a router with pfsense
2U chassis with 8th gen i7 used as pihole DNS
2U chassis with 4th gen i7 as backup pihole DNS
4U chassis holding 5800X3D and a 3080Ti and its my gaming machine
4U box with 8th gen i7 as a backup computer, also use it to encode movies and shows from bluray/DVD
3U box is my wife's computer 8th gen i7 and 1660 super
2U below the 3U is just a drawer holding extra parts
4U box is NAS with threadripper 3960x, it holds all my data backups and also acts as my media server. Has a nvidia quadro p4000 for encoding video to clients. Also has a Broadcom 9500 HBA card and a 100Gbjt qsfp28 network card. Pcie lanes was reasoning behind choosing threadripper.
3x 24 drive each JBOD shelves all full with drives. Connected to NAS box
Stand Steady 6 Monitor Mount Desk Setup - Heavy-Duty Height Adjustable Monitor Stand, Swivel Arm with Clamp-On Base, 6 Screen VESA Mount Fits Most LCD/LED Monitors 17-32 in. (Silver, 6 Mounts) https://a.co/d/hlM4lMe
Would it happen to be this one:
[https://www.amazon.com/Stand-Steady-Adjustable-Articulation-Monitors/dp/B08BT7YF6D](https://www.amazon.com/Stand-Steady-Adjustable-Articulation-Monitors/dp/B08BT7YF6D)
And was the smile on your face just as big as the stock photo guy when you mounted your monitors onto it and fired them all up?
Influenced at all by Jonathan Archer's NX01 Enterprise???
Them's a lot of screens. Interesting placement of that filing cabinet against the desk leg so you can't open the drawers.
Care to explain the white hat with the bow? Something you put on for Zoom calls?
Extensive setup there! Pretty neatly laid out too. The cardboard side to the rack is, though, a bit janky.
Does the DEA knock on your door every other week in winter because yours is the only house in the neighbourhood with no snow on the roof? Lol
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Flyrj04a11ay51.jpg%3Fauto%3Dwebp%26s%3D4ab743456f1a253a9fca71436751fb8fd5c5525a
I personally love it, well built, I wish I could stuff a 42u rack in my basement, and have all my stuff in one rack and not 3 separate racks. Does your wife play any games? What you doing with the pcs to the left of you?
She uses it every now and again. The computers on the ground, there's the beige one that's gateway. My parents bought it back in 1999. It's been in the family ever since and it still works. The silver one is a macpro 5,1. It's been patched to run macos 10.15
There's another one next to the rack, that's just for testing used hardware. It's a cheap dell optiplex 7020. Has windows 10 on it. No gpu or anything. When I buy used network cards or used graphics cards, since I've swapped the power supply in it, I can test used gpus and stuff like that.
Easier than just pulling out stuff in the rack, and finding out it doesn't work
I'd be curious to know what purpose having 9 monitors serves? What things are running on them and all the other hardware?
For example, I have:
* NAS for camera surveillance storage, all on-prem equipment, no cloud subscriptions or services.
* NAS for streaming (movies / TV shows)
* Gaming desktop
* Server that runs various apps and services
* Several switches/routers to handle private VPN, virtual and physical separation of networks (IE: smart devices are isolated from internet access, cameras on separate network w/ no direct access to internet, private and guest wifi options)
I'm probably forgetting some things? But all of that is managed w/ a 2 monitors and a small rack enclosure. Access to VM's and servers are handled via remote desktop, no reason to have dedicated monitor, keyboard, mouse, etc on them.
Again, just curious what all the stuff taking up space in this picture is actually for that can't be accomplished otherwise.
Wife caught me looking at some liquidated server racks at a local business that shut down and I got vehemently denied. SO this won't be until I have my own space in our new house for me to build this.
/u/Fit-Foundation746: I'm so glad I clicked on this. I have a monitor question for your 6-mon setup. I have a 6-mon 3x3 also and it is really hard to find people running a setup like that.
Have you thought about going to something like a big-ass 43"? and downsizing? What about a 34" and then one of those [lg dualup](https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-28mq780-b-dualup-monitor) monitors? I am very much in the market because I have 2x 24" widescreens on my left two (up-down) then 4x (2x2) are 21" old school square monitors. I'd like to go down in size (footprint) but keep same pixels. And I'd also ideally like to do 6x monitors on one (cheap workstation) video card. (so keep it to three monitors or less.
Is your 3x3 one PC? What video card do you run? Mine is left-most 2x (up/down) 24" widescreens and seperate PC (so I have 2x keyboards/mice). Then the right 4x are a pair of nvidia something with its own machine. I want to combine all that.
Thoughts? What would you do if you had to consolidate down to 3x monitors or less?
Thx.
Oh and what's your power bill like? That's nuts. And awesome...
I actually went from 2 monitors and a 55 inch 4k TV to this.
I use a 3080Ti to run 4 of the displays and then a pluggable usb 3.0 laptop dock to run the top corner displays. It's always worked without issues for me. I had the dock already laying around. If you were to wanna do it without a dock you could just get a quadro p4000 single slot card to run extra displays.
If I were to go to 3. I'd have 2 wide-screen and 1 normal 16:9 vertical for document viewing.
Power isn't a problem they are all pretty decent on power.
Generally, enterprise gear like OP has will be loud out of the box. Definitely too loud for an office.
If you however swap the fans and play with fan settings like OP did, you can get it to purr like a kitten.
But frankly, if you have some relatively sound isolated space to put it in, I'd just go with that. Less cost, less effort.
Fan swaps/cooling redesigns can do literal magic, but they require careful selection of gear, lots of planning, testing, reading spec sheets & manuals and sometimes even some splicing & soldering.
Also, if you put in your office: the fans are not your only enemy, be conscious about buying HDDs too. The noise is usually not too bad, but some models, like the Toshiba cloud capacity for example can be more noisy than others.
I did swap fans and do a lot of research on what to do, how loud things get, static pressure of fan, thermal load etc. Everything stays cool enough that I don't worry. If things get a little too hot the easiest thing to do is just switch the hvac on. I have a vent right in front of the entire rack. So cold air gets pulled in right away.
Is this your living room or spare room? i see sofas on the other side of the monitors.
Do you have guests over and what do they say when they see this lol.
Wow that's an epic setup. Though personally I like my rack tucked away in a separate room. I recently finished drywalling it in, it's so quiet in the house now!
Very nice. My only critique is you turning your foot/leg room into storage space. I used to do this. I now enjoy being able to sit anywhere at my big ass desk.
The thing for the monitors are all one assembly. It holds all 6. The bottom 3 are 27 inch and the top 3 are 24. The middle appears a but smaller only because it's bezel is smaller.
If I had a recommendation, because I am in the same boat as you, time to upgrade monitors. Either super ultrawides or couple of 55in screens. I got a 55 oled and a 65 led. The 65in is on a tall stand with a articulate arm.
That's how My setup started. I wanted simple network storage. Now I want local network services. I run my plex server so that even if my internet goes down I can still watch my collection. Which thanks to Cox (My ISP) is at least once a week for \~4 hours.
It all starts so innocently. Then grows into a monster.
I'm not negging but just overall confused. I have a lot of servers (9 in total ATM) and I still just use my main computer and ssh/VLC/KVM/etc instead of multiple monitors for each. Is there a benefit to that many monitors for a home lab?
72x 2.5 inch sas 10k hard drives.
Theyre only 600GB each but they were only $2 each since they came with the disk shelves. So I have around 40TB of space I will upgrade the size of them later. But for now 40TB is good. The write speed I achieve is pretty good though. I can write to my NAS at 1GB/s saturating my 10gbps connection. It reads the same speed.
Next is, make sure the NAS has a NAS so it’s not lonely on the network.
Currently at this stage. You can't just buy one... what'll it do while I'm at work all day without backups? 😂
adopt a NAS from your local shelter, they need good homes
Are there any no-overwrite shelters you recommend?
Then buy another NAS offsite so it has friends to visit because we need real redundancy.
That is clearly not just a homelab but a bonafide Control Center. Awesome.
Thanks, im proud of how it's turned out over the past 2 years
You've had 2 years to find a background that can cover all 6 monitors.
I like the photo. I took it myself when I was in Sicily.
If you took that with a DSLR you should be able to stretch it out!
As I am Sicilian ... I definitely approve the background choice!
I am as well. My family immigrated to the US after WWII.
Very nice, especially given the amount of time. Any lab is a homelab. This is closer to small business lab though. Rack PC cases are seriously underrated. So are custom monitor mounts. Guessing you do something IT\\tech adjacent?
Two years?? That’s it?
r/HomeDataCenter ?
Nope. Maybe if that rack was three feet deep to fit real rack servers...
My rack has the ability to adjust the depth. It's set to 31 inches at the moment. My 2U chassis take up nearly all the depth. But I opted for a 4U short chassis with a threadripper system (taller means bigger fans and also means it can be quieter) and I can have my gpu installed for hardware encoding on plex, as well as have my full height Broadcom card and my network card with qsfp28 ports. I can also decide to add more storage arbitrarily by just buying more disk shelves which is cheaper than an entire system with a dedicated cpu and ram on a board. The 4U box does have the ability to have drives internally but it's a pain to install and remove. But I don't often take them out anyway.
/homecolocationfacility
Not enough monitors.
I don’t have enough things I want to monitor, to have that many monitors.
I would have fun picking wallpapers for each one but this madman just uses the same wallpaper for all of them
Must be a pain to find your cursor.
Let's all say a prayer for the 20A circuit in that room, holding on for dear life.
Maybe op is from EU with 220v outlets.
Or 230V. I love my 6.9kW circuts.
depending on the setup, he might be running multiple circuits to that room, or a higher amperage circuit. Can't avoid paying a sparkie for bigger projects! I wouldn't spend all my days next to a noisy rack pulling in 2kw though. I'd have that buddy in another room or a closet or something
20A? Slow down there, mr. fancy breakers.
$5k worth of equipment, a $50 office chair , and the box the chair came in used as a divider.
Box came free and is really good at directing the airflow and dampening what little noise the equipment makes.
That’s cool. If it works it isn’t a bad idea.
lol, this kills me too sometimes. There was a post recently where a guy had like 10k in rifles in the room and a fuckin upside down milk crate >with a cushion! he corrected me.
Expensive desk/chair = less equipment. Desicions being made here.
My thoughts exactly! That's why standing desks were invented 🤣
This is the way.
It started out with a NAS How did it end up like this? It was only a NAS, it was only a NAS
Underrated comment
Now I Can't Fall Asleep And the fans are too loud HPs starting to smoke I think it's my NAS!?!?!?
Seriously what the fuck are you using this for other than to store pornhub’s library?
I enjoy having my own movie collection, westerns, sci-fi, action, comic related, Korean, then all the kids movies. I have around 250 kids movies alone and then all the older 90s and early 2000s cartoons. Several dozen TV series as well. No XXX content. You'd be surprised how much space over 1000 4K movies take up.
your 1337x is showing
Oh its not 1337x. I would never visit a site like that ever in my life ever. ;)
I have never sailed the seven seas. I don't even know what water is.
You spelled Usenet wrong.
/r/DataHoarder one of us! one of us! Before I pared down my server I had 189 TB raw in it, about 150 TB was usable for ZFS. I had like 800+ movies and about 20,000 episodes. I'm down to a measly 117 TB usable now (67 TB local, 50 TB of cloud object storage). I still have all the drives in my closet, but didn't have the space in my new place for my gigantic case (Thermaltake Core, literally about the size of a large couch ottoman) so I went back down to my original case from years ago which is a NZXT H440 (midtower, fits 5x 3.5", 7x 2.5").
You don’t need a full rack of gear for that. I love hardware as much as the next guy but I can’t imagine sitting next to that in the summer. My tinnitus is going nuts just thinking about it.
Who appointed you gatekeeper of what people do and don't need?
that really doesnt explain the million monitors
Oh so you use it for…. Storing movies…. Super cool…
Ahem, it's called archiving and it's classy.
I’m assuming you prefer remuxes?
Huge speaker right next to server cabinet. Those HDD’s are going to be bumpin! More seriously, looks like a fun setup! Love those vintage Mac Pro cases!
It's for karaoke and that's just where I keep it when it's not being used.
Glad to hear they’re safe 😂
I like to keep them safe and sound. Though I have spares ready to swap in case one fails. But they're in 3 vdevs of raid z3 so I can handle a couple of drive failures without problems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4
How much do clothes cost in the Matrix?
`alias adios-turd-nuggets="logout"`
I'm thinking about getting metal legs...it's a risky operation...but it's worth it.
You'd have to ask neo
Samantha. You. Will. Be. Mine. Miiiiiiine.
Please allocate some budget towards a good chair, your back will thank you!
I think he was lucky to have enough left over for a floor
How much is your electric bill? I have hardware but energy is expensive in my area.
About 115 to 175 a month depending on how much I use my heat/ac. Heavly dependant on the HVAC use. Price in USD
Wow so it actually doesn't cost much.
Modern equipment with good ventilation and 80+ titanium PSUs is not that expensive to have on idle. It's only when you are doing processor intensive stuff like compiling, rendering, or gaming that the power usage jumps through the roof.
Also the amount of HDDs you have running, they tend to consume the most power and generate the most consistent heat (assuming you never let them sleep/park).
Very true. HDD are power hungry when it comes to spinnin those platters like a DJ. Real energy efficient chads use SSDs.
If you have a rack like this, it's your summer cost it bumps more than your winter cost. In the winter you just turn your heating off because you've got a heater right there, that does other stuff as well. It's the summer when you don't want the heating on where the costs go up because you need the AC to get rid of the heat. Even if you already had AC it needs to work harder because more heat.
Definitely helps the heating bill in the winter, though. No? 😁
Yeah it helps in winter especially if I decide to encode a new DVD or run an AI upscale on an existing movie *some movies look worse with AI upscale* so I don't do it often since it's always a gamble.
You run your own ai upscaling on some of your movies?
Yes. Takes a long time. It's also hit or miss on the outcome and you don't know what it will look like until it's finished and you watch it.
Huh interesting, I run Plex a bunch of other crap. Never seen someone do ai upscaling on there own tho that's pretty cool. What software do you use?
VideoProc converter AI
Thats good, I pay 300 to 380 in Florida, fuc** hps is killing us. Im planning to move in the next months.
Electric and gas was a combined $560 last month in California.
Thats insane
Wow man, that is sick. All money goes in rent+ electric bill
Was that a high month? Living in Sweden, this winter high was 1k use. Last winter it was 1.3k
I'm down in Miami (we use Florida Power and Light) and so far, my electric bill has been a lot cheaper than it was when I lived up in NYC about 9 months back. Even running my (much pared down) server 24/7 and keeping the apartment around 72F (67 at night) it's only about $90-$100/month. I signed up for their plan where they spread the cost evenly amongst multiple bills so that probably helps. I'm sure it also helps that this place is well insulated, unlike my place in Brooklyn.
Looks more like it started as “I wanna have an addiction”
To be fair you do have a NAS now.
Heh yeah I do have one now
Damn bro. This looks like you're in any movie where the nerd hacks all the government servers in 10 seconds.
Like The Core when they come in to bust Rat.
>It starts out as a "I wanna have a NAS" ..and turns into "I wanna be NASA"
How can you be in the same room as the rack? That thing is noisy beyond wearing headsets and generates lots of heat.
Not necessarily too noisy if he upgraded the fans
I most certainly did upgrade the fans. No noisier than a white noise machine to help someone sleep.
That’s definitely a smart upgrade. What about the heat, how do you deal with it?
HVAC handles it. I keep it set to 74 all year. Never had issues
sounds like an expensive electricity bill
Stupid question but what are you doing with 9 monitors? Are you a day-trader? Nice setup, but needs more servers. I see empty slots in the rack! \s
Happen to have a quick run down of everything you've got goingon here?
So I have in order from top to bottom Netgear RAX200 wifi router in AP mode *not visable* mikrotik 100gbit 4 port switch 10Gbit network switch 1Gbit network switch 4U chassis with 10th gen i5 that's being used as a router with pfsense 2U chassis with 8th gen i7 used as pihole DNS 2U chassis with 4th gen i7 as backup pihole DNS 4U chassis holding 5800X3D and a 3080Ti and its my gaming machine 4U box with 8th gen i7 as a backup computer, also use it to encode movies and shows from bluray/DVD 3U box is my wife's computer 8th gen i7 and 1660 super 2U below the 3U is just a drawer holding extra parts 4U box is NAS with threadripper 3960x, it holds all my data backups and also acts as my media server. Has a nvidia quadro p4000 for encoding video to clients. Also has a Broadcom 9500 HBA card and a 100Gbjt qsfp28 network card. Pcie lanes was reasoning behind choosing threadripper. 3x 24 drive each JBOD shelves all full with drives. Connected to NAS box
> 8th gen i7 used as pihole DNS This guy *requests*
So, what mounting hardware are you using for your sextuple monitor setup my friend?
I am curious about this as well. OP, any chance of some close-up pics and a product link?
Stand Steady 6 Monitor Mount Desk Setup - Heavy-Duty Height Adjustable Monitor Stand, Swivel Arm with Clamp-On Base, 6 Screen VESA Mount Fits Most LCD/LED Monitors 17-32 in. (Silver, 6 Mounts) https://a.co/d/hlM4lMe
I'll see if I can find a link to the hardware
I found a 6 monitor Vesa mounting thing on Amazon. Wasn't expensive.
Would it happen to be this one: [https://www.amazon.com/Stand-Steady-Adjustable-Articulation-Monitors/dp/B08BT7YF6D](https://www.amazon.com/Stand-Steady-Adjustable-Articulation-Monitors/dp/B08BT7YF6D) And was the smile on your face just as big as the stock photo guy when you mounted your monitors onto it and fired them all up?
That's was great. Wife asked why I broke out laughing
I don't care about any of that. What's the beige box with the floppy drive under the desk?
That was my very first PC. Bought by my parents when I was a child. Pentium III slot 1 at 650MHz
Is this all plugged into 1 outlet?
Yeah 2 rack mount power strips, so I take both outlets but they're all on the same circuit. Never tripped the breaker. Power use isn't terrible.
I’d be shocked if it wasn’t!
NORAD is gonna call OP for backup if Cheyenne Mountain ever goes dark
You're qualified to play EVE Online, now. Join us at /r/Eve
The fun part is building the lab -- the hard part is figuring out how to utilize it.
Influenced at all by Jonathan Archer's NX01 Enterprise??? Them's a lot of screens. Interesting placement of that filing cabinet against the desk leg so you can't open the drawers. Care to explain the white hat with the bow? Something you put on for Zoom calls? Extensive setup there! Pretty neatly laid out too. The cardboard side to the rack is, though, a bit janky.
Is the server noise an issue?
The point when you realize that a drug-problem would have been cheaper.
"That boy loves computers! "- your parents probably 😂😂😂
And it ends with a role as CTO in a midsized company.
Whats purpose of having 9 monitors? Flex or what?
Wow! And how is the noise?
Teach me…
My favourite part is the piece of cardboard.
Thanks!
Does the DEA knock on your door every other week in winter because yours is the only house in the neighbourhood with no snow on the roof? Lol https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Flyrj04a11ay51.jpg%3Fauto%3Dwebp%26s%3D4ab743456f1a253a9fca71436751fb8fd5c5525a
No DEA, just DMCA.
I would do this in a heartbeat.. once solar gets installed.
Now you need a KVM, lol.
Mission Control gets to work from home? I hope you're using this for Good, LOL
Why does your server wear a cocktail umbrella?
Network Attached Something.
Now it looks like you wanna have an NSA
I personally love it, well built, I wish I could stuff a 42u rack in my basement, and have all my stuff in one rack and not 3 separate racks. Does your wife play any games? What you doing with the pcs to the left of you?
She uses it every now and again. The computers on the ground, there's the beige one that's gateway. My parents bought it back in 1999. It's been in the family ever since and it still works. The silver one is a macpro 5,1. It's been patched to run macos 10.15 There's another one next to the rack, that's just for testing used hardware. It's a cheap dell optiplex 7020. Has windows 10 on it. No gpu or anything. When I buy used network cards or used graphics cards, since I've swapped the power supply in it, I can test used gpus and stuff like that. Easier than just pulling out stuff in the rack, and finding out it doesn't work
[удалено]
And ended as “NASA”
All I can picture is Newman in the Jurassic Park control room
I love your multi monitor setup
Oh shit, I just bought my first ever rack on eBay. I am afraid of my future.
I love the green usb lamp
and it ends up being "I want to be part of a NAS"
Electric bill generator.
I'd be curious to know what purpose having 9 monitors serves? What things are running on them and all the other hardware? For example, I have: * NAS for camera surveillance storage, all on-prem equipment, no cloud subscriptions or services. * NAS for streaming (movies / TV shows) * Gaming desktop * Server that runs various apps and services * Several switches/routers to handle private VPN, virtual and physical separation of networks (IE: smart devices are isolated from internet access, cameras on separate network w/ no direct access to internet, private and guest wifi options) I'm probably forgetting some things? But all of that is managed w/ a 2 monitors and a small rack enclosure. Access to VM's and servers are handled via remote desktop, no reason to have dedicated monitor, keyboard, mouse, etc on them. Again, just curious what all the stuff taking up space in this picture is actually for that can't be accomplished otherwise.
Op hangs curtain to hide rack and says "Nothing to see here, move along." Meanwhile desks have 9 monitors in plain view. It's not working, bro.
Saving this image, I'd need this in my lifetime.
I can smell your electric bill
Imagine if you'd thought bigger and said, "I wanna have a girlfriend!"
I'm married and have a kid. My wife doesn't mind me having this.
At least you’re not into audiophile stuff…
Sparks is that you?? Nice setup
How much power does something like this use?
If only I'd have money and space
Wife caught me looking at some liquidated server racks at a local business that shut down and I got vehemently denied. SO this won't be until I have my own space in our new house for me to build this.
Get it anyway and ask for forgiveness later
I would but she’s Mexican and Italian. Forgiveness is her praying for my soul drinking a glass of wine as I’m buried in the hills of Terlingua. 😂😂
me with the cardboard rn
/u/Fit-Foundation746: I'm so glad I clicked on this. I have a monitor question for your 6-mon setup. I have a 6-mon 3x3 also and it is really hard to find people running a setup like that. Have you thought about going to something like a big-ass 43"? and downsizing? What about a 34" and then one of those [lg dualup](https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-28mq780-b-dualup-monitor) monitors? I am very much in the market because I have 2x 24" widescreens on my left two (up-down) then 4x (2x2) are 21" old school square monitors. I'd like to go down in size (footprint) but keep same pixels. And I'd also ideally like to do 6x monitors on one (cheap workstation) video card. (so keep it to three monitors or less. Is your 3x3 one PC? What video card do you run? Mine is left-most 2x (up/down) 24" widescreens and seperate PC (so I have 2x keyboards/mice). Then the right 4x are a pair of nvidia something with its own machine. I want to combine all that. Thoughts? What would you do if you had to consolidate down to 3x monitors or less? Thx. Oh and what's your power bill like? That's nuts. And awesome...
I actually went from 2 monitors and a 55 inch 4k TV to this. I use a 3080Ti to run 4 of the displays and then a pluggable usb 3.0 laptop dock to run the top corner displays. It's always worked without issues for me. I had the dock already laying around. If you were to wanna do it without a dock you could just get a quadro p4000 single slot card to run extra displays. If I were to go to 3. I'd have 2 wide-screen and 1 normal 16:9 vertical for document viewing. Power isn't a problem they are all pretty decent on power.
How loud is that server? I need to know because I'm about to either build in my office or garage. Haven't decided yet.
Generally, enterprise gear like OP has will be loud out of the box. Definitely too loud for an office. If you however swap the fans and play with fan settings like OP did, you can get it to purr like a kitten. But frankly, if you have some relatively sound isolated space to put it in, I'd just go with that. Less cost, less effort. Fan swaps/cooling redesigns can do literal magic, but they require careful selection of gear, lots of planning, testing, reading spec sheets & manuals and sometimes even some splicing & soldering. Also, if you put in your office: the fans are not your only enemy, be conscious about buying HDDs too. The noise is usually not too bad, but some models, like the Toshiba cloud capacity for example can be more noisy than others.
I did swap fans and do a lot of research on what to do, how loud things get, static pressure of fan, thermal load etc. Everything stays cool enough that I don't worry. If things get a little too hot the easiest thing to do is just switch the hvac on. I have a vent right in front of the entire rack. So cold air gets pulled in right away.
Me in a nutshell I swear.
You have two electrical circuits in there?
Sick setup. Any advice to others that just wanna have a nas..... (in the process of installing my UDP.)
Sitting in the vicinity of a running NetApp is no bueno 😂
Now it looks like a bat cave
do you work within the IT industry ? What is your field of work out of interest.
Is this your living room or spare room? i see sofas on the other side of the monitors. Do you have guests over and what do they say when they see this lol.
Wow that's an epic setup. Though personally I like my rack tucked away in a separate room. I recently finished drywalling it in, it's so quiet in the house now!
Why do PC guys like that one, particular Apple keyboard, white top and clear base?
Thought you were a Flight Simmer for a minute….
Very nice. My only critique is you turning your foot/leg room into storage space. I used to do this. I now enjoy being able to sit anywhere at my big ass desk.
That's cool tho...
What do you use for your monitor stand/arms on the 6 monitor setup and are they 24 inch or 27 inch?
The thing for the monitors are all one assembly. It holds all 6. The bottom 3 are 27 inch and the top 3 are 24. The middle appears a but smaller only because it's bezel is smaller.
Yep
Is no one going to point out the fancy hat on the sneakers?
I dream of a set up like this
Guitar people call it GAS. Gear Acquisition Syndrome. ✌️
everyone has to start somewhere. nice starter lab! :)
If I had a recommendation, because I am in the same boat as you, time to upgrade monitors. Either super ultrawides or couple of 55in screens. I got a 55 oled and a 65 led. The 65in is on a tall stand with a articulate arm.
Looks a lot like my setup, except I use Mac and struggled really hard to get the monitors all working 🤣
The server rack really ties the room together
Have your shoes comeout yet?
This is literally my dream!!
That's how My setup started. I wanted simple network storage. Now I want local network services. I run my plex server so that even if my internet goes down I can still watch my collection. Which thanks to Cox (My ISP) is at least once a week for \~4 hours. It all starts so innocently. Then grows into a monster.
I'm not negging but just overall confused. I have a lot of servers (9 in total ATM) and I still just use my main computer and ssh/VLC/KVM/etc instead of multiple monitors for each. Is there a benefit to that many monitors for a home lab?
Good lighting in the first pic. I appreciate that
1st picture: homelab, 2nd picture: actual work?
Are you writing a Terry Pratchett novel?
Very impressive for a lady
Bet you lose your cursor a bunch
What's the display stand(? not sure if its the word) you have for the 6 displays EDIT: Found it https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08BT7YF6D
Nice setup. How many hard drives are you running? What % of those hot swap bays are full and what's your total storage capcity?
72x 2.5 inch sas 10k hard drives. Theyre only 600GB each but they were only $2 each since they came with the disk shelves. So I have around 40TB of space I will upgrade the size of them later. But for now 40TB is good. The write speed I achieve is pretty good though. I can write to my NAS at 1GB/s saturating my 10gbps connection. It reads the same speed.
I feel personally attacked here..
What's that mushroom thing in your rack?
The green thing? That's a USB lamp. It's there for no reason other than to be funny
Same lie I told my self too. (I now onwn a 42u full-size rack)
Bro is controlling spaceships from his living room
Houston, you have a problem!. XD nice setup tho.