Hi guys,
Just picked myself up an EliteDesk 800 G6 SFF:
Current specs:
- CPU: i5-10500
- RAM: 8 GB
- NVMe SSD: 256 GB
My plan is to beef this up with:
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RAM: Crucial Pro DDR4 RAM 64GB Kit (2x32GB) 3200MHz
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HDD: 4TB ironwolf NAS drives * 2
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NVME SSD: Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1 TB PCIe NVMe M.2
How I’m planning my setup:
The existing 256 GB NVMe will host Proxmox.
The new 1 TB NVMe will be for VM’s & LXC’s
The 4TB ironwolf NAS drives will be configured in a mirror and will be used as a NAS (Best way to do this?) as well as for bulk data from my services, like recordings from Frigate.
Services:
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Home Assistant (Currently running on a pi4)
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Frigate (Currently running on a pi4)
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Pi hole (Maybe, already running on an OG pi)
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Next cloud (Calendar, photos)
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TailsScale
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Vaultwarden
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Windows 11
My follow on projects will be:
Setup PBS to back up my Host(proxmox-backup-client), VMS & LXC’s
I have a Raspberry Pi 4 that I was thinking to use for PBS in the short term, but will eventually move it to something like an n100 mini PC.
I will also setup a second NAS(TrueNAS most likely, bare metal) to back up the 4TB ironwolf NAS.
This is my first proper homeLab, having mostly tinkered with Raspberry Pi’s and Arduino’s up to this point, any advice on my setup would be really appreciated.
Sounds like a badass config. I would have got something with 2.5Gb ethernet, but you could add that via usb-c if needed.
Thanks man! I’m excited to get it all set up!
ISP speed is currently less than 1Gb, definitely something I can upgrade down the line though.
Excellent choice on the new SSD.
If you are buying one of the used Elitedesks, refurbished from a business done with them, they often have their original storage removed and replaced with an extremely cheap, crappy SSD that probably won’t last long and will instead just die on you.
You know I’m on the fence about the Evo now after reading this: https://wiki.futo.org/index.php/Introduction_to_a_Self_Managed_Life:_a_13_hour_%26_28_minute_presentation_by_FUTO_software
He’s had a bad time with them and recommended these: https://amzn.eu/d/aw2ZySq
Thanks for the heads up on the Cheap SSD, I’ll check it out, I’m planning to back up my host, so if it dies shouldn’t be too painful.