For reasons unexplained, you have no homelab hardware, but $1,000 in cash earmarked for the purpose.
What are you buying, what are you installing on it, and how is it different from what you’ve done previously (i.e. lessons learned)?
For reasons unexplained, you have no homelab hardware, but $1,000 in cash earmarked for the purpose.
What are you buying, what are you installing on it, and how is it different from what you’ve done previously (i.e. lessons learned)?
I got an enterprise class 19" short depth chassis, whit supermicro motherboard and a xeon D (they are soldered to motherboard) whit 8 cores at 2.something GHz, multithreading and so on. Bought a 128GB ecc ram kit and a pair of intel enterprise 1TB ssds. Installed proxmox, whit mirrored discs, and it’s now running 8 containers and 3 vms. Really low power consumption, just a bit loud but perfect for the garage. Placed inside an ikea lack table and mounted up above a door. Avoid buying consumaer class ssds as they are gonna last you only a few months in a configuration like this (that comes from experience, 20% wear in 6 months whit the initial Kingston I bought)