Reacting to YOUR home lab setups - You guys love wood...

[@gabrielb238]

I've actually wondered what other people's lab setups look like and this was fun to watch! Before I got married I had a chaotic home lab with everything from old optiplexes to flashed hp chromeboxes. Love seeing other people having the same chaos haha!

[@84Actionjack]

Looking at those setups make me feel right at home.

[@myleshudson7856]

I am honestly honoured to recieve the Cute AF build award. The case is a Fractal Design Node 804. Theres 4x4tb ironwolf drives in there, a 1tb hard drive, 2 ssds and a LSI sas card. Ryzen 2200g and 16gb ram. The server is on 24/7 pulls around 130w max, Included fans run almost silent.

[@nimblor]

That is very similar to my set up. I have a 4770k in mine and it idles just over 60 watts. I'm interested in a lower power but equally robust CPU but have not found one. I'm currently anti-rack if for no other reason than I don't want to buy a rack.

[@myleshudson7856]

@@nimblor i was considering a rack but saw the 804 for £77 on amazon. Upgraded my pc that week and so transferred all my old parts into the case and ordered 4x4tb NAS drives and found some ssds scattered around my room

[@jamesr2936]

Nice build bro! Fractal Design NEVER disappoints.

[@pieterrossouw8596]

Node 804 is great, it houses my Proxmox server that has 4x 4TB drives, a Ryzen 3600, 32GB of memory and an RX550. Proxmox is running VMs with TrueNAS, Portainer and an Ubuntu server VM I use for DevOps and Automation development. I then use a MacBook Air M1 to admin everything remotely via Nginx Reverse Proxy and/or TailScale.

[@nimblor]

The case is a Fractal Design Node 804. I have one and have an unraid setup in it with 5 10tb sas drives. It also has a tiny dvd drive slot and space for 2 ssd in the front cover and I think one below the motherboard. possibly more if you want to cram them in. It is a great case if you can handle the micro/mini atx motherboard limitation. Very quiet and lots of room for fans 4 on the front 3 in the back. It also has filters on the fan intakes which keeps it super clean inside.

[@TheOdog1970]

I have this case too, really great

[@somegeek7126]

I also used this excellent case that can fit a lot of disks and a mATX motherboard in a relatively small form factor. It's in my living room, meaning the noise level is very quiet and the look passes the WAF test. Highly recommended case. :)

[@rudysal1429]

Same but in the future I'm going to try and build a small server rack setup

[@kylethistlewood4217]

Love the video! You should look into potentially showing off people setups, but on the software side. You could have people share their network diagrams and talk about what you like/dislike. Keep up the great work! Your videos are always really funny and informative.

[@7ick725]

My home Lab started off August 2021 with a Rasberry Pi running OMV for Plex. Then it turned into a Docker experiment. Then I got a 5800x to replace my 2600x for my desktop. Then I got 4 decomisioned PCs from my work. Now I've got an 2 Dell Opti-plex runnign, one i turned into my router, the other is Proxmox, My 2600x is running TrueNAS Scale w/10gbe to my deskto. My pi is still doing it's thing but now is pretty much and NFS Server with the OMV backup. This has been a rabbit hole over the last 6 months.

[@DavidCastillaGil]

I was thinking of upgrading my setup, but maybe I leave it like that for the next competition... I'm using shoe boxes as modular storage. I made tiny holes to pass cables from one to another, and also to allow air flow. Inside them, I use the bottom part of egg boxes, that way cables can run hidden underneath, and the devices stay separated from the ground and let air pass through. It looks stupid but it works...

[@JeffGeerling]

lol at that first comment, sometimes it be that way

[@RaidOwl]

Non-constructive criticism, my favorite 🙃

[@rkbest9783]

Wow! my ugly setup got first review. I could have cleaned it up a little. lol and thank you

[@RaidOwl]

Hahaha no cleaning allowed!

[@fstap]

I have that same cube case and I absolutely love it. The Node 804 can officially support 8 3.5" drives, but you can do some finagling and get another two in there

[@javierlopez799]

i have seen people who have 3d printed trays

[@Critical-Defense]

Man whatever about that 2x4 rack.. shit is badass and does the same thing as those overpriced t-posts bolted together. We’re all suckers today, that guy can expand his setup ANY TIME. ANY DAY.

[@cwinter90]

Shit, I'll post my desktop/work setup later... The goal was to make NASA jealous. Edit: also, I have that weird ass fractal case also. I'll post it in a bit...

[@williamp6800]

The Fractal Design Node 804 is a mATX case, not mITX. It’s got the eight 3.5” drive bays that you mentioned, and more: - space for a 3.5” drive and a 2.5” drive in the motherboard compartment. - behind the front cover it’s got space for two more 2.5” drives and a slim format DVD drive. All in a slightly less than one cubic foot.

[@madthough2298]

I've just finished up a custon mAtx case. Native Rimu timber, laser cut aluminim and stainless. I spent all my money making the case so only has a 3060 and i5

[@akimboslice03]

I'll take the "you do you" award any day! Thanks for the content bro

[@NatesZone]

I'm a bit late but thanks for featuring me! It's been a rough week for me.

[@RaidOwl]

Oh snap :/ hope things turn around my man

[@NatesZone]

@@RaidOwl Thanks, Man!

[@dead_head]

You should do a video setting up all your equipment in the new place

[@RaidOwl]

Oh you know it

[@novellahub]

I spy Craft Computing's discord. Don't let him show you his server rack.

[@mainstaymist]

BRUH!....

[@ryanmalone2681]

The wood build is hilarious. but it looks pretty solid and does the job! No shame in that.

[@misha.teppich]

Case at timestamp 7:34 is the Fractal Node 804. Great case had two of them myself. Lots of storage space and ideal as a case for your own NAS server.

[@reddeviluk]

Stupid question on an old video. But what do you guys and girls actually use these devices for? I'm building a photo back-up, Plex server, but obviously for me a mini PC would do the job. What's the need for such HUGE devices? Not slagging, just curious.

[@RaidOwl]

Usually you’ll want a bigger device for one of two reasons: space for more storage or space for more pcie expansion cards. For example, my main server has 12x hard drives, a full sized GPU, an nvme card, an hba card, and a 40gb NIC.

[@cjchico]

That Mini-ITX case is a Fractal Node 304 I believe.

[@RaidOwl]

That's it!

[@travis_smartley]

@@RaidOwl It's the Node 804 and it's an mATX case. the Node 304 only fits 6 3.5" drives . The 304 also mounts them in a different location.

[@AaronSchmidt52]

👆 Yep that, it's a Fractel Node 804. Older case but still a great one.

[@postnick]

I'm in North Dakota, I also couldn't put a server rack in my garage, it would get too cold in winter and too hot in summer.

[@Critical-Defense]

It the garage? I pulled the shelves from my bedroom closet and mounted a rack 😂

[@8xpdhpckkg]

hey, if it works for you, it's not stupid

[@williamp6800]

The Fractal Design Node 804 is a mATX case, not mITX. It’s got the eight 3.5” drive bays that you mentioned, and more: - space for a 3.5” drive and a 2.5” drive in the motherboard compartment. - behind the front cover it’s got space for two more 2.5” drives and a slim format DVD drive. All in a slightly less than one cubic foot.

[@Doesntcompute2k]

Okay so the quad socket motherboard. They are very common (in Enterprise computing). AMD Opteron had them, AMD Epyx has them, and Intel 4K and 7K chips have them. I've got a Dell r910 with 4 x Intel Xeon E5-4680 v2 0 @40c/80t, 512GB, 2x128GB boot mirror, 0GB storage, 4x1Gbps, 2x10Gbps, 2x40Gbps networking. Dell, HP, IBM, Sun, SGI all have done quad mobos. They are normally used in Enterprise DB servers. I believe my r910 can go to 2TB if I wanted too. The PCIe Gen5 systems will (likely) be able to go to 24TB to 48TB of memory.

[@iamjessieray]

Alright, I have been convinced. I live in a very small house now and don't have room for my firewall, switch, and server, but I have an old Dell laptop sitting around that is basically 1 level above e-waste since it is doing NOTHING. It's now going to be the basis of a really small home lab.

[@удивительный-б8х]

00:10 you removed the part where the guy grabbed the lady, what an absolute gentleman :D

[@RaidOwl]

Hahaha yeahhh

[@NicMG]

I need a homelab, at the moment its an old laptop rigged up to my TV and an external hard drive. It's very sad, I know. I do use Icedrive for an offsite cloud storage solution.

[@puretrack06]

Fractal Node 304

[@GorgossauroYoutuberOfficial]

Unique Organization Scructure

[@hw2508]

calling a tower case a desktop is kind of weird when you remember back how desktop PCs looked 25 years ago.

[@Michele5623]

10:59 WOW! One of the most interesting setups. I could replicate it. 17:39 I also appreciate this. It's small and does not take a lot of room I want to see more stuff like this

[@GabrielM01]

the red laptop is mine, works pretty well, i would recommend everyone ttrying to do something like this to see its limits

[@Michele5623]

@@GabrielM01 I don't know if you're into videos but I would show what's inside in detail, what services are you hosting?

[@GabrielM01]

@@Michele5623I can make a little one explaining all the issues i had with him, how i "fixed" them and what i am running, yes. Once i do i will tell you here, if you want go the Raid Owls discord you can find me there by the same name

[@um4ooo]

the case is fractal node 804

[@fsacrini]

Fractal Node 804, I'm buying one of this... It's not expensive.

[@CaseyJMoore]

We;ll this video has made me want to upgrade my main PC desk set up....the thing on the top of my rack is a gym interval clock.

[@GiovanniWahome]

I'm new to your channel and as soon as I spotted TechnoTim's and Craft Computing's servers on your discord ( 1:22 ) I knew I would be happy here. I get many ideas from the community and I think R̶a̶i̶d̶ Rate Owl should be a thing. Keep up the great content.

[@GuildWarsUploads]

2:29 I was really waiting here for a "better downstream" remark XD

[@javierlopez799]

cutea af case is node 804 used it for 4 unraid servers i built for my side business. love that one and fractal define design 5

[@ONWOTE]

product review? DM me

[@GabrielM01]

Made it in, YEAHHH, thank you man, great video

[@tigeroats913]

man you would get an aneurism if you say my setup😂

[@RaidOwl]

Try me haha

[@DjMrMors]

nice video, it would be nice if you can make a video like a vlog of moving or setting the new server

[@kienanvella]

Always interesting to see what others are running for their labs - and what services they host out of them. My homelab is in a state of flux currently, mostly happening because I work from home and my wife and I are both night owls, so there's never a good time to do software updates on the single Opnsense VM I use for my router, or the proxmox host it lives on. Whole network overhaul happening in the coming months.

[@JasonsLabVideos]

SOAB! I missed this !! I'm dying :( Next time i guesss !

[@salaciouscreations4323]

Lol wish I had known about this. You would melt down at my set up

[@android5994]

I own a 4 CPU server but it was destroyed by my stupidity

[@cooky842]

I knew I should have your mug on my screen to sweeten the deal ;)

[@eppicshotgun1281]

This really makes me wanna rackmount all the things lol.

[@Thewickedjon]

Cool stuff man!! i bet cha this series is gonna take off like a rocket

[@AnthonyKingF35]

Points to a flight simulator - "Racing setup...". 🤦‍♂️haha

[@RaidOwl]

Lmao maybe he races the planes

[@ultravioletiris6241]

That 4 socket motherboard is $1000 lol

[@RaidOwl]

Sheeeeeesh

[@ultravioletiris6241]

@@RaidOwl right? Cool concept though. I didn’t really think about a 4 socket motherboard until today. I wonder what the power draw is like. Personally i would be too scared of a potential incompatibility to spend that much on a motherboard. Pretty cool to have that much going on in a single box though. I love your channel even though I don’t have a server setup like many people do. This video definitely spoke to me with some of the people who have very small setups going with only a laptop or a pi.

[@virtualink5]

Running Arch and didn't neofetch for the photo op? Shame

[@RaidOwl]

😲😲😲

[@wultyc]

Where's mine? 😭😭😭

[@RaidOwl]

Next time, if I did everyone the video would be hours long haha

[@wultyc]

@@RaidOwl I do not see the issue on that xD

[@bertnijhof5413]

My backup server is unique, it is in a Compaq Evo Tower with a Win 98SE activation sticker. The content is more modern and only ~20 years old. The content is a Pentium 4 HT (1C2T; 3.0GHz); 1.5GB DDR (400MHz) and 1.21 TB in 4 HDDs (250+320GB IDE 3.5" and 2x320GB SATA-1 2.5"). The software is the latest, released in 2022: FreeBSD 13.1 on OpenZFS 2.1.4. The system is in use for ~2 hours/week since June 2019. The system has two cables 1Gbps Ethernet and Power.

[@oxoqunb5741]

nothing's better than a no lab setup..well, u still need to set up ur private cloud offsite (virtually running all tools and apps) maybe an hour's drive away at least.. then back all of it into two or three net cloud servers. a windows laptop and/or a macbook or an iPad might be just enough on your desk. maybe a raspberry pi or zimaboard on another desk to tinker with along with the usual switch/firewall and UPS underneath.. u will never break the habit of constantly tinkering on your server hardware if they are within a minute of ur reach.

[@TinkerTech]

"Straight" or "level" "vertical" is just a matter of perception . Just because YOU consider 90, 180, 360 the norm, I have news for YOU! Some life forms dont want to conform to the oppresive standards of the past. Non-binary levelers will be in all hardware stores, mark my words.

[@HecUnderscore]

Really low quality video.

[@hashbrownfob]

Last night I created a ubuntu server image on a usb stick and plan to throw it on an old janky laptop. Use containers for a bunch of stuff.

[@Cmnore]

Got, WOOD? 🪵😜

[@RaidOwl]

Yeah I have some in the garage…wait…

[@snowmanDIY]

With the price of wood it might be worth the same value of a metal rack.