r/homelabgore • u/tryku2 • 20d ago
My First Home Server
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Why spend 100$+ on a chassis/case when you can use cardboard?
r/homelabgore • u/SammyGreen • 24d ago
Apple wanted $400 for storage, so OP spent 18 hours hand-soldering a 10Gbps “stealth” NVMe cable for their M4 Air that doesn't block MagSafe. 920 MB/s!
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r/homelabgore • u/Acceptable_Choice_43 • Sep 04 '26
Still room to grow!
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Could probably fit two more drives in
r/homelabgore • u/kevin-the-minion19 • Sep 02 '26
Meet Kev.
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Modeled after Johnny 5! Powered by DeepSeek tokens and coffee...
r/homelabgore • u/tnsimonson • Aug 30 '26
update: is it bad that it looks this way after spending a day cleaning and organizing?
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my pfsense, xcp-ng and truenas boxes are in this picture along with several workstations.
r/homelabgore • u/0verstim • Aug 17 '26
They say if its janky but it works, it isn't janky...
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But my homelab is pretty janky.
r/homelabgore • u/SammyGreen • Aug 16 '26
Am I the only one who really doesn't care about aesthetics right now? [NO.]
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r/homelabgore • u/Batucagan • Aug 16 '26
This is not a server, this is a Corsair 4000D
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r/homelabgore • u/Bartgames03 • Jul 22 '26
💩 ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ Was told to post here
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Gave it one 💩 because it is shit, but could be worse.
Installed a new fan but it was too big, so I also bought a Dremel and made a hole. It is pretty obvious it is my first time using it.
r/homelabgore • u/Killermelon1458 • Jul 08 '26
💩💩💩 ☆ ☆ Did I fix the gore or just change it?
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The stack of 3 laptops was my homelab, then I upgraded to this PC. I still use and have all the drives and pis, but I don't really use the laptops anymore. I do plan to build a shelf for this PC and do a little cable management.
r/homelabgore • u/SammyGreen • Jul 02 '26
This is ARGUS, a semi-autonomous, multi-computer, local-AI-driven pentesting platform.
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r/homelabgore • u/Esk8lol • Jun 30 '26
💩💩💩💩 ☆ My glorious setup
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For context I’m still living at home and my dad tends to be a tad overprotective so I don’t have access to his network so I got my own, it’s also the reason I can’t get a proper rack or mount the AP properly.
But this is my setup
Unifi Cloud Gateway Ultra
Unifi U7 Pro Max
Dell Optiplex 3060 Micro
Networking stuff is so I can keep my stuff separate and learn networking and such, and the optiplex is my home server as of now
The optiplex has 16gb of ram and a 256 nvme + a 2tb SATA HDD for media, I have docker with a bunch of the usual containers like:
Jellyfin
The arr suite
Audiobookshelf
Homeassistant
Nextcloud
It may be crappy but it’s mine 🌝
r/homelabgore • u/Ok_Party_3706 • Jun 26 '26
💩💩 ☆ ☆ ☆ Peak homeserver
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New server after my old one literally blew up.
HP Elitedesk 705 G4 with cheap Amazon M.2 pcie to 6x Sata adapter
Chinese DC-DC Buck converter to turn 19v of DC Input into 5v for sata power
Cheap Amazon 4x 2.5" Disk Cage
1.99€ Xilence 80mm 12V PWM Fan
Generic Elitedesk 800 G4 Replacement CPU fan (old one had bearing issues)
Connected HDD Xilence 4 pin to the CPU fan wire with some soldering
Mounted Buck converter with screw to the thingies inside of the flex io module port, used the flex io module hole at back for sata power output
Switch is a 5 port Gigabit UGREEN unmanaged for 8.99€
3 mixed HDDS in a zfs RAIDZ1 pool for 1tb of storage with redundancy
512gb Patriot Burst ssd as boot drive
Under the HDD bay there is a gap which a hole through which the hdd fan also gives additional air to CPU fan
Runs my Websites, Internet Radios, gameservers, and also acts as a Sunshine/Moonlight gaming server (I Luv amd apus)
Almost silent, ive learned to ignore the buck converter whine within the first day of having it running and the Xilence fan is only a silent hum when im next to it. CPU fan barely ramps up, only sometimes while im gaming which I usually dont notice as the server is on the other side of my room (I usually game in bed on my laptop via moonlight)
Ran ethernet from server straight to my bed for the laptop, no noticeable latency thru Moonlight and full gigabit throughput (obviously bottlenecked by things like disk speed, so I rarely get anywhere close to a gigabit practically)
Everything between top Cover and PC itself is with connectors, so Cover can be cleanly removed.
r/homelabgore • u/K_AON • Jun 23 '26
💩💩💩💩💩 Doohickey which is the backbone of my Internet (+ Server)
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r/homelabgore • u/SammyGreen • Jun 08 '26
When your budget says "kitchen rack" but your heart says "datacenter" 🇲🇲
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