Creative Technologies

Homelab

Homelabbing was a whole new concept for me, a completely new IT territory for me to explore. This is my homelabbing journey.

Home server - version 1

The first version of my Home Server was built using a Raspberry Pi 8GB. I've used an old PC case, to which I added 2x Seagate Barracuda 3TB disks, connected to the RPi via USB to SATA adapters. I decided to go with a Meanwell PSU to make sure there is no power issues with the server. I've settled on installing OpenMediaVault as the current OS. I later added Portainer to manage my docker containers. This was my introduction to homelabbing.

I've soon found myself using Jellyfin, the *arr stack, Grafana and Prometheus for statistics, and multiple other containers and services.


Home server - version 2

Components and supplies

  • Asrock B660M-HDV
  • Intel Core i3-13100
  • MSI Geforce GTX 1660 Gaming X (Windows VM)
  • 2x Toshiba MG08 16TB

This is my new home server which runs on Proxmox. Inside Proxmox, I virtualize a Debian VM for Docker containers, TrueNAS for storage and a Windows 11 VM with GPU passthrough for testing.

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