New and actually documented for once.
2023-06-06
What?
New blog; technically, first blog.
Trying to keep track of my publicly visible projects going forward, as a means to document what I’ve made and how, spurred on by recently building a new server that necessitated re-implementing a lot of work I’ve done in the past.
Current projects at time of writing this include 2 low-poly styled Unity games and one short RPG Maker MV game, migrating a bunch of self-hosted services (Jellyfin, Navidrome, various nzb/torrent clients, automated Youtube archivers, etc.) slowly over to the new server, and eventually moving the old server to “backup” duty and deploying some more popular services (e.g. Nextcloud).
Server
Had plenty of scripts to handle the software side, trying to avoid Ansible and the like going forward for instances that aren’t cloud-hosted and disposable. New box is meant to serve as a container/VM host and bulk storage, using more “homelab-standard” tooling:
- Proxmox host
- Debian VM with docker containers (as it’s what I’m most familiar and comfortable with administrating)
- TrueNAS SCALE VM, ZFS with 50TB usable space, RAIDz2
Hardware side:
- Ryzen 4650GE in an x470 motherboard
- 32GB ECC RAM
- Dell HBA passed to the TrueNAS VM
- 6x14TB SAS HDDs bought new for $140/each
- Node 304 chassis
| Type | Part | $ |
|---|---|---|
| Cooler | Noctua NH-L9a-AM4 33.84 CFM CPU Cooler | $49 |
| Motherboard | ASRock Fatal1ty X470 Gaming-ITX/ac Mini ITX AM4 Motherboard | $110 |
| SSD | Crucial P3 500 GB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive | $32 |
| Case | Fractal Design Node 304 Mini ITX Tower Case | $110 |
| PSU | Corsair RM650x (2021) 650W ATX | $130 |
| CPU | AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650GE | $114 |
| RAM | Kingston KSM26ED8/16ME DDR4 16GB 2666 MHz ECC RAM | $130 |
| HDD | Western Digital Ultrastar DC HC530 (14TB) WUH721414AL4204 | $780 |
| Other | Cable Matters Internal Mini SAS to SAS Cable 0.5m (SFF-8087 to SFF-8482) | $41 |
| Total | ~$1600 |
Had bought 2x Dell mini-SAS SFF-8087 to 4xSFF-8482 for $50, they do not fit due to the Node 304 HDD mounting brackets - half of the HDDs have to be installed with their ports too close to the upper rails, and the larger connectors on the Dell mini-SAS cables do not fit.
Backups running to an older server:
- Debian + OMV5
- Supermicro X9SCL
- Intel Xeon E3-1265L V2
- Node 804 chassis
- Bigger is not always better - mounting HDDs in this case is an absolute pain, and I was never able to source the proper brackets for HDDs without a middle screw hole from Fractal and had 3D print them; worked so far, but still quite jank.
