Nothing special just wanted to share, I’ve been working on it piece by piece for over a year now it started with a few intel nucs now it’s got five dell optiplex micros a raspberry pi and a qnap nas ts251 and a ts251+. I’ve been using it to host virtual machines and to run game servers .

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    1 year ago

    So… Where does the cat sleep? :) On top of the QNAPs? Is it warm enough?

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    1 year ago

    I’m genuinely envious of your setup mate!

    I wish I had this many USFF PCs, looking around for Dell Micros, HP G series mini, Lenovo Tiny… The prices are absurd in the EU: stuff that’s 10 years old being sold for 150+ EUR

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      1 year ago

      I’m buying Optiplex 7040s and its been a lot cheaper to buy the low RAM options with and then upgrade it to my chosen configuration (I have them all with identical spec). Been picking them up for around £65 and then paying £40 for 32GiB of RAM so it can definitely be cheap. Considering their power usage and how quiet they are they are pretty good for homelab use. L

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    1 year ago

    What type of software or setup are your optiplex micros running? I’m new to home labbing. Even so not too long ago I bought 4 Lenovo m910q tiny and planned on making a HA k3s cluster but I lack the experience/knowledge of Kubernetes and starting up a sever. Mainly want to figure out how to run a game server then eventually mess around with containerizing and virtualization. Any suggestions on where to start or get something up and running would be a great help!

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    1 year ago

    I love thise mini desktops. I run 1 Hp Elitedesk mini and a Lenovo and that’s it. Does everything I need in 2 devices.

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    1 year ago

    This is a clean setup, well done! I’ve been looking for a good rack/shelf setup like that for my “IT Closet” since I live in an apartment and can’t get a full server rack.

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      1 year ago

      Do you want the link for the thing I use it’s just a shower basket thing which I’ve melted holes in to route cables through the one only issue is that it warps a little bit from the weight

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    1 year ago

    I’m waiting for my first Optiplex to begin my journey. Cool! Have you thought of buying an enclosure for the Micro pcs?

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      1 year ago

      I have thought about it at some point I wanna get a proper server rack for it but for now I might just keep them as they are