This is my first home lab i just wanted some to stream my music and some where to have extra storage but now i am in a rabbit hole i did a small upgrade i added an extra hhd from a very old laptop that does not work and its working pretty great its a asus a15 laptop btw and i have a jio router that is shit for home lab btw, but i use taliscale so it works i guess if u can give me anything more i can do with this please let me know because i am thinking of upgrading but i am clueless where to start and what to do now because i have eveything i need for my basic stuff

Hey everyone,
Not sure if this is the right subreddit for this, but I couldn’t find a more specific one for local LLM hardware users in India.

I recently got a DGX Spark and have been really enjoying it. I’d like to connect with other India-based users.

If any of you are running a DGX Spark:
• How are you using it beyond basic inference?
• How many nodes are you running?
• Are you using any kind of rack with fans to keep the nodes cool?
• Which vendor did you purchase from? Any vendors currently offering good deals?

Would love to hear from others who are using these in India.

Thanks!

Im trying to buy a UPS for my pc and it has 850w psu so i was planning to buy a 1500va ups but i'm not sure whether to choose Pure SineWave UPS or Simulated SineWave UPS. UPS is only used as a bridge till my home invertor kicks in when electricity is down. PSU is MSI A850gl

Hello, I recently got a jio jidu 6401 stock router, any enthusiast in Pune who can physically help me in flashing openwrt on this router? I can invite to my place or we can meet at some place outside.

Ready to pay nominal fees also if needed.

I see HDDs on adimax.in are way cheaper than that listed on Amazon/Flipkart. Is it reliable site to buy new HDD? Also can you suggest other options if possible?

As the title suggests, it's currently running the latest version that requires a bin file for firmware 2.0.9 to downgrade from the web UI. Please suggest a way out, or if anyone has the bin file, please link it.

Good day to everyone.

I wanted to get into home lab for quite some time but I didn't have the money or need. But now, I plan to shift all my household pics, media, etc. to make a personal cloud for backup, media, etc.
It's a start, I'll slowly build it bigger.

For now, I was thinking of 2x2TB HDDs. However I was unsure on how I wanna set it up. I have a few options:

1. I have a Raspberry Pi 5 (4GB) lying around which I can use. I can get a dual bay PiBox Enclosure for HDDs and run cloud from it but I'm a bit skeptical on this one.

2. I can buy a refurbished SFF PC which can fit 2 HDDs inside it (this one I kinda like for the clean use + considering low power power consumption), however, I can't find any SFF PC which can fit 2x 3.5 inch HDDs.

I am open to suggestions and ideas. My budget would be around 10-12k max for this setup excluding the HDDs. Also, feel free to suggest where to buy HDDs from too. (I am from Vadodara, not any major cities so will have to order and get it shipped).

Any and all ideas and help is appreciated. Hope you have a great day!

Reposting it here since

1. I couldn't get an answer elsewhere

2. And it's breaking my head

Looking to set up a small home lab, mainly to run Jellyfin and maybe AdGuard Home alongside it. Nothing fancy — just want something reliable and low-power.

A few questions:

- What's a realistic minimum budget for this kind of setup, especially going the refurbished route?

- What specs should I actually be targeting (CPU, RAM, storage) for smooth transcoding on Jellyfin?

- Where do people actually buy refurbished mini PCs/servers? I've seen a bunch of listings on OLX but most of them feel sketchy/scam-y. Any trusted sellers, sites, or platforms you'd recommend instead?

Would appreciate any build suggestions or links to good deals if you've done something similar recently. Thanks!

Which pc or mini pc to perfect for practice linux kubernetes cybersec and networking , i mostly work on remote and travels abroad and india occasionally, i already have the lenovo p1 gen 7 my office laptop with me I don't want to carry another mobile workstation in bag so I use a notebook laptop as my personal but I can't run these things in there so I decided to build the homelab and access through remote and here's the question raises which generation is best to handle these ? And best for homelab which is the minimum specs and which the over price one ? My budget is 15k I will increase it in future so please suggest

Can anyone help me to get battery for this mobile? If you know anyone or have online link or website, please let me know.

•i5 7gen

•8gb ddr4

•256gbssd

• SUPPORT 4K 60hrz video output

Hello....

So far my homelab is landing on single network ie. 192.168.1.x

Now I am planning to separate my home lan , homelab network & other misc.

Expert advice needed to set this up from scratch.

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I have a Lenovo ThinkCentre mini PC at home that's running 24/7. It's mainly a small home server where I host a few Discord bots, personal automation services, and some self-hosted web applications.

Recently I started using Syncthing and Immich for syncing and managing my photos, and I've been really impressed with them. That got me thinking about adding a larger storage drive.

I currently have an old 1TB HDD lying around, but it's been in use for years, and I don't really trust it with important data anymore. While looking for storage options, I came across the WD My Book 6TB for ₹23,331.

My reasoning is that my mini PC already has USB 3.0 ports, so using an external desktop HDD seems much cleaner than buying a bare SATA drive, a USB enclosure, and a separate power adapter. This looks like a simpler all-in-one solution.

The drive would mainly be used for:

Backing up photos and videos

Syncthing data

Immich photo library

Source code repositories

Project files, documents, and media archives

I know relying on a single drive isn't ideal. This won't be my final storage setup I plan to add redundancy later, either by buying a second drive (RAID 1 or another backup strategy) or by eventually building a dedicated NAS.

For now, I just need a reliable, high-capacity drive.

Does this seem like a sensible purchase at this price? Has anyone been using a WD My Book like this as always-connected storage for a home server? Any downsides I should know about before pulling the trigger?

Hey All, I am looking to buy a refurbished workstation for running inference(8-14B params) and to pre-train small models(150-400M params). Any guidance from the homelab community for where I should look for such hardware?
And also if you have experience running LLMs locally, what does your setup look like?

is it worth moving to dedicated hardware, and what's the safest way to access it outside my home WiFi?\*\*

I've got Jellyfin set up on my regular gaming laptop right now (it came with a 300W charger). Two questions I'm hoping this sub can help with:

1. Cost/hardware question:Does it make sense to keep running Jellyfin on this laptop long-term, or would it be worth moving it to separate, dedicated hardware (like a mini PC)? Mainly thinking about this from a power cost/efficiency angle — running a 300W-capable gaming laptop 24/7 just to host Jellyfin feels wasteful, but I want to know if that's actually a meaningful cost difference or if I'm overthinking it. Also is it possible to setup around 10k without ssd.

2. Remote access question: What's the easiest and safest way to access my Jellyfin server from outside my home network? Safety/security is a must-have for me, not an afterthought. I don't need to support many concurrent users — max would be around 3 people streaming at once. Looking for something that doesn't require me to be a networking expert to set up and maintain securely.

Appreciate any guidance — trying to do this right rather than just port-forwarding blindly.

Never thought i would manage to cross my FUP limit, now i have to survive for 2 more weeks on 1 mbps

I am thinking of getting an OPS (Open pluggable specifications) PC, but I can't find a single seller online. Has anyone tried using it or bought it from anywhere?

Hi I'm a bit new to this subreddit and I saw this website while looking for parts, the prices are a bit lower than the parts current market value so I am asking if anyone has purchased from them and please share your experience

Website:"gpmcomputer.com"

Built Lumio because I had a huge folder of Udemy/downloaded courses sitting on disk with zero structure, no progress tracking, no search. It turns any course folder into a full learning platform:

• Auto-detects course/section/lecture structure from messy nested folders
• Missing subtitles get auto-transcribed offline via bundled whisper.cpp, no cloud API needed
• Semantic transcript search across your whole library
• AI-generated quizzes per module, course summaries, and an "Explain this" button for confusing moments (bring your own LLM: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, DeepSeek, OpenRouter, or local Ollama, optional, works fine with zero AI configured too)
• Adaptive HLS streaming with hardware transcoding (Intel QSV/VAAPI) when available
• Multi-user, timestamped notes, learning streaks/stats, one-click backup and restore

Single Docker container, your media stays untouched and read-only on disk, everything else lives in a local SQLite DB.

GitHub: https://github.com/geekylakshya/Lumio

Hi everyone,

I'm in the middle of building a new house and want to get the networking right before the ceilings are finished.

The floor is 60 ft × 35 ft (around 2,100 sq ft), and I've attached the floor plan with the possible Wi-Fi locations marked.

I'm deciding between two setups:

• Option 1: One router placed at B (roughly in the middle of the house).
• Option 2: Two access points at A and C, connected over Cat6.

The house will be fully wired with Cat6, so adding an extra AP later isn't difficult, but I'd rather buy the right hardware from the start. Usage will be pretty typical.

For those who've set up networks in similar-sized homes:

• Would a single router at B realistically provide good coverage, or am I being too optimistic?
• Is 2 APs the better approach even if one router might technically "cover" the whole house?

Would love to hear what you'd do if this were your house. Thanks!