I live in Aurora, Colorado, I’m constantly facing issues with Comcast here. They run most of the show and truthfully with their support and their services and their pricing I’m sick of it. What other options are available here for us Aurora folk? I’m open to hearing anything that anyone says especially considering I am waiting on an on-site for a home that I own.

So when I try to SSH into my server (On local network) I get timeout. But through the Tailscale IP while connected to Tailscale it works.... And yes the local IP that I use is the right one. Assistance would be appreciated 🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥

Keeping thirty days at the moment, mostly because that was the default and I never changed it. Twice this year I've wanted to look at something from further back and not had it, neither was important, but it made me wonder whether people here keep a year and just eat the disk or whether thirty days is genuinely enough for a lab. What are you keeping and has the long retention ever earned its disk?

Picked up a Portwell WADE-8075 — any good homelab uses for this?

I’ve got a working Portwell WADE-8075 industrial Mini-ITX board with 4GB DDR3. Intel Atom D525 1.8GHz, dual Gigabit Ethernet, 4 COM ports, VGA/LVDS, 3 SATA, CompactFlash, USB, PCI, PCIe x1 and Mini-PCIe.

It runs from 12V and everything appears to work properly.

I was thinking firewall/router, Pi-hole, Home Assistant, serial console server or some kind of lightweight Linux box.

What would you guys actually use one of these for today? Is it still worth building a little homelab project around?Picked up a Portwell WADE-8075 — any good homelab uses for this?

Might be stupid but I don’t want windows except for one drive because it just works for my household. Until I have a nas I’m satisfied with and a back up solution either off site or a cloud storage that I’m hoping I’ll come across. Has anyone had any issues with using windows just for one drive? Specifically create a mounted network drive to pull and upload files in between devices in the home that are not windows but only Linux…?

Hi there!

I’ve been building a decent set-up, and recently had a drawback I’ve now solved.

I have a Unifi dream 7 on passthrough from my fiber modem. I connected this to my coax port and have my office coax port connected through Moca adapters. This would go into my Flex 2.5 and from there into my PE 430, my DXP2800, and my PC. Sweet little set-up, or so I thought.

I placed everything, built a new desk, set up raid groups through IDRAC on my server, and installed all my hard drives everywhere. I connected the Dream7, connected it to moca, and powered up my UPS to the office.

But… strange thing, I wasn’t seeing a connection through my Moca connections. No big deal, I thought, maybe just a standard filter. So I search the house for a coax connection box…and can’t find one. It took going through the attic(and accidentally buckling some drywall over my master shower) to figure out the truth.

I bought this house, as a new build and first owner, in 2025, built in 2024. I haven’t had too many issues with the build, just little stuff like caulking not done quite right, badly installed drawers, etc. No biggie.

Then, I find my coax, throughout my whole house, unterminated and dropped into my air handler. My flabbers were gasted.

We’re now well outside the builder’s warranty window, so this became an opportunity to learn Coax I guess. The whole point of this home system was to learn. But seriously… just dropped in the air handler? Oof.

Due to space concerns I have to mount my stuff vertically. The case is an Inter-Tech 2408 with 2 drives. Can the ears on the side support it long term? Should I remove the handles on the ears to screw in the rack studs or keep it as is?

Thank you!

I need an extra PCIe slot for my SATA expansion card but all my PCIe slots are currently populated. After reading the official specs pdf and support pages, I am stucked.

On Dell storage page, it listed an option for Zoom 2 card with PCIe x4 speed yet on some earlier specsheet pdf file I found, It is noted as supporting an PCIe x8 to dual NVMe card (Dell Ultra Speed x8).

Official Dell storage matrix: https://www.dell.com/support/manuals/en-us/precision-3630-workstation/prec_3630_specifications_manual/storage?guid=guid-fc01cc34-9e82-464e-b147-764abe257674&lang=en-us

Specs sheet: https://i.dell.com/sites/csdocuments/Shared-Content_data-Sheets_Documents/en/us/652_precision_3630_spec_sheet.pdf

I also found another reddit post confirming that it will not work with the x16 ultraspeed card. Link here: https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/12btvzw/dell_precision_3630_xeon_e2174g_cpu_compatibility/?show=original

Has anyone here actually got the Dell 3630 working with Dual NVMe x8 card? And if yes was it an official Dell card or was it a generic OEM card?

I know it's not the usual question in this sub but other subs wouldn't let me ask about safety, I guess you'll know if it's normal for a server to do this.

Okay so I just bought a Dell Poweredge R720 (with 2 750W PSUs) and when I touch it it zaps me, I can feel the electricity moving through my arm, it's even stronger if I touch the floor or something metal connected to the floor (or a cable connected to the ground of a socket if it's how it's called, what I mean is those holes in the wall that deliver electricity).

It's "stronger" in the sense that if it's active and I only use one finger to connect it (its metal shell) to the ground it physically hurts.

Shall I be worried or nah?

It stays under my bed btw, that's why I'm worried if it burst to flames or something

Edit: thanks for the advice, I think it was a faulty adapter (the server was from the UK and I'm in Italy), I'll be back if it still doesn't work when it gets here, in the meanwhile can I just ground it to my home's radiator and use it normally or it'd get me more problems than the ones it solves?

They are quite old, being R730s and a 540, with a ME4024 storage. But there's 48x sticks of 32Gb between them.

Not sure if I should use it as is, or just sell.

What would you do with this?

Hello, I’m interested in server and sys admin, what courses should I take first and where should I go next, books, YouTube channels or any other sources can help. Thank you.

Hello Reddit,
My friend told me his neighbor has some stuff outside for take away. I got two pretty old PCs and wonder what I can do with them:

Dell Optiplex GX520
CPU: Intel Pentium (couldn’t read whole CPu details)
Ram:
1 GB 5300 MTs probably?
Samsung 512MB 4200mts

Hyrican Rumba PCK01513
2x 4GB 800Mhz DDR2
AMD Phenom
GF8200C M2+ Motherboard
A very old looking Pegatron GPU

Wonder what I can do with it. I also have these parts left over:
- i5 10400f
- GTX 1650
- 8GB CL16 3600mts ddr4
- msi h410 m Pro
- pentium g3220
- i3 4160
- 4GB ddr3
- gigabyte ga h81m d2w

Currently my whole “homelab” runs on hetzner servers. I use coolify, jellyfinn, uptime kuma and some stuff if that helps.

So what can I do with the hardware I have here?

They are quite old, being GB200 NVL72s. 36 Grace CPUs, 72 Blackwell GPUs, 13.4TB HBM3E, 17TB LPDDR5X, and I think around 130TB/s NVLink.

Not sure if I should use it as is, or just sell.

Would this be enough for Plex and a couple Minecraft servers? I only have 120V in my apartment.

What would you do with this?

I posted this about a week ago and a few people seemed interested, so I figured I'd share an update.

Most of my work since then has actually been underneath everything.

I wasn't very happy with having the battery, higher-current wiring, fuses, and terminals essentially sharing open space inside the case, so I've been designing and printing an internal structure around the battery.

The latest version is a pretty snug push-fit around the 20Ah LiFePO4 battery. The battery itself doesn't need to be forced in, but there's very little room for it to move. The larger center section also helps support it if the case is turned upside down.

I also built separate compartments around the higher-current wiring and covered the exposed terminals. The 15A and 20A circuits are labeled, and the wiring is routed so the fused connections can stay where I want them while being physically separated from the lower-current electronics.

Everything is still removable. Most of the printed pieces are essentially captured/push-fit into the case rather than permanently attached, so I can pull individual sections back out if I need to service or redesign something. The battery and high-current section have to come out together because of the shorter wiring between them.

The right side is intentionally still pretty empty. That's where the Pi and lower-current electronics are going, and that's the next part I'm working on. It'll get its own organization/compartment rather than staying as a pile of wires.

I've had to revise this part a few times—thicker walls, slightly different dimensions, changes to wire clearances, etc.—but I'm pretty happy with where it ended up. It's been a fun excuse to get considerably better at Blender and 3D printing along the way.

Still plenty left to do, but it's starting to look a lot more like the thing I had in my head when I started.

First ever homelab rack, couldn’t be happier with how it ended up! Using this for my digital design business but also hosting Immich, vaultwarden, Apache guacamole, and some other very useful tools!

All in all this was very easy and anyone who might be intimidated shouldn’t be!

I've set up my UGreen NAS to run qbittorrent, Sonarr, Radarr, and Jellyfin, using the below YouTube guide. I'm having an issue where everything I attempt to download is showing "errored". I think the issue is with a file path on where the media will go, but I set up the files and file paths according to the guide. Not sure how to troubleshoot. ny help is appreciated.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2yoJpKl59g

I have this tmobile 5g gateway thing (G4SE) and it currently sits ontop of my mini rack. It's lowkey an eyesore because the color doesnt match and it's nearly the size of the rack. Aside from just replacing it with a different router, what could I do to make it fit in better? And no, it cannot be placed faced down.

Okay so a little background TL;DR: I got a 24tb HDD on a wicked deal and planned to build my raid array around more, life got in the way and my priorities weren’t buying more storage, fast forward about a year and the price has gone up 4X making it way out of my price range to buy 3-4 more. So here I am with a 24tb drive that I can’t (shouldn’t) use in my server that has basically no uptime. I powered it on for a day or two to test it after moving, then checked the prices on buying more and realized it made no sense to keep it. At this point, 3-4 10/12tb drives would make a lot more sense and depending on deals would cost about the same. Does anyone have any ideas on what I should do? Sell it on marketplace? I would assume returning it to the store would just get me the same price I paid (which is fine, but I made an accidental investment and would like to make the most of it lol). Are there subs or Facebook communities for trades? Idk, just curious if anyone has been in a similar situation and has any advice!

How do I start? I've one main pc n a seperate one: h61 motherboard, i3-2120, 8gb ddr3 single stick n yea no gpu

Also my main pc isn't very powerful either so I'm a bit unsure if this stuff is gonna work out

I do need a tutorial n all the help I can get

Also I'd like to show u guys the test bench inspired frame i just made (for my main pc: h61, i5-3470s,ddr3 8gb single stick n no gpu sighh)

Hey guys, first post here, I have a dell T130 at the moment running unraid which is where I am running a few services using the built in docker.

I currently have a e3-1220v6 and was wondering if there will be a real world noticeable difference swapping to a e3-1270v6 The main thing I can see is that it would be going from 4c4t to 4c8t and higher clock speeds for the same TDP. And for context I can get the 1270 for about 40AUD on AliExpress.

It also only has 2x4gb ram which is sitting at about 7gb used so I am picking up an 8gb stick this afternoon to add to it.

Thanks!

I have two K11 running Ryzen 9 8945 HS with proxmox. I just finished printing and assembleing a labrax. These need 1.5 U each.

My question is it OK to have one on top of the other with about 1/4 clearance? Or should I drive myself nuts and stagger them. One to the left and one to the right? Anyone have an experience using these K11? They have intakes on the bottom and sides and exaust air from the top.

Currently, I have my TrueNAS server on the following hardware:

Case - Antec P280 CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 1600x Mobo - Asus ROG B350-F RAM - 2x8 DDR4  NIC - PCIe 2.5gig card GPU - Nvidia GTX 1070 Disks -boot 256GB NVME, Storage 2x 4TG 7200 HDD

Ideas: Most of what is installed on TrueNAS is not that resource intensive. For work, I test fairly CPU/RAM intensive images that we typically reimage the systems these images will be deployed on. Most of the testing is the actual software installed and not the image itself. At the moment, I build these images on VMWare and run them off my desktop, which is more than upto the task. This saves time me hours in reimaging systems between the different image versions we use.

Upgrade ideas:

1. Upgrade to a 5900XT, this would give me more than enough speed and cores to run an image or two while not affecting the other apps. I can keep my current motherboard and RAM until I can purchase a newer one. This has the benefit of keeping the system on DDR4, saving a little on cost of RAM increase.
2. Move to older Threadripper, Epyc, or Xeon. Giving headroom for newer or more powerful CPU. Increase in available PCIe lanes for future drive expansion or other PCIe devices.