The original post: /r/homelab by /u/Spongokalypse on 2024-09-28 18:27:25.
I’m somewhat in a pickle.
Originally I was planning on a future NAS for storage: buy and forget.
However more and more ideas and needs have arisen that demand a good plan on setting up one or, if we keep it realistical, more devices that:
- won’t cost me a fortune
- are up to the task(s)
- and may integrate some old spare parts I have lying around
To get more into detail, aditionally to a NAS that would pretty much function as backup redundancy, cloud and file storage for a growing amount of video files from stream recordings, there’s also the need for a device that only needs to handle stuff like a discord bot, a twitch bot, pihole, maybe unbound, although it could be better to split up the bot and network part. A RaspPi 3 could probably handle everything aside from the NAS on top, maybe.
Yet there’s still reason to believe I might need a dedicated server for games, to throw some databases onto, or for software/API testing. It’s not important, but something that’s itching my brain.
Usable Spare parts I still have lying around:
case fans in all sizes and colours,
R7 3700x,
R5 2600,
400W PS + 500W PS (probably not too efficient at low power draw with Bronze 80)
Most of the other stuff isn’t really usable because of high power consumption and I probably should’ve sold that long ago (AM3+ Socket, 1155 boards, ddr3 RAM, old HP Compaq…)
Sadly I live in Germany, so energy prices are 🤡.
But even if power saving is a major goal, I also want a reasonable time for amortization.
Saving 20€ on power consumption a year is fine and dandy, but not at the cost of 200€ more than what would be nessecary to do the job.
Something tells me repurposing the 2600 might sound good on paper, but when I need to get a new board, RAM, PS, smoler case(only have random big tower not in use), but it’d be probably more useful to sell the stuff for chump change and let that go towards the project.