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Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by abstractbarista on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @03:52PM (#20689564)
Some people like me will justify it due to being a huge hobby for them. It takes the place of what other people would spend going out often, traveling, streaming, etc...

I've got a rack that pulls ~600W 24/7 but that's across 4 machines, 3 UPS's, >30 HDD's yielding >20TB across multiple zpools, >256GB RAM. And I'm actually using most of that capacity, not just idling away.

I do hope to upgrade soon to power-sipping platforms like you mention but currently I'm still on R710/R810 stuff (Westmere Xeon's).

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Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by louwrentius on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @05:28PM (#20690456)
That is awesome. Do you have something written up about your setup online?
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Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by Dayshine on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @04:31PM (#20689908)
I have to ask, using it to do what?
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Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by abstractbarista on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @05:45PM (#20690592)
I wish I had something written up to share. But it's honestly a mix of things I love to play with. Several full blockchain nodes (especially uploading to light clients), bittorrent client (seeding tons), plex, home assistant, boinc, tor bridge, grafana, web and email servers, zoneminder CCTV, mandelbulber (clustered rendering of 3d fractals), four different Minecraft servers (some modded), ADS-B plane tracking, weather station and radiation monitoring, and a bunch more.

It's really just one big toy for me. I'm using Proxmox for high availability of over 30 VM's (still want to play with containers soon).

EDIT: OPNSense firewall says I uploaded over 15TB in the last month. Fortunately Google fiber doesn't care!

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Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by louwrentius on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @06:19PM (#20690831)
That's awesome!
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Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by berbec on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @05:29PM (#20690469)
Linux ISO plex server.
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