How it started: mp80
I bought a MiniPC (Blackview MP-80) to run Home Assistant and some lights etc. to go with it.

It's now exactly one year later this is what my setup looks like now:
BMAX B2 Pro --> Home Assistant OS Blackview MP-80 --> Proxmox --> Nextcloud-AIO & Immich
ODROID H4+ --> Proxmox --> TrueNAS

How it's going: odroid
With the heatwave in Europe I've now installed cooling to keep my HDD's from heating up.

I know it's Janky as hell, but I love it. The plan going forward is to buy a 3D Printer so that I can 3D Print a custom 10" rack, and I'll build my own cooling and temperature monitoring system with ESP32 and create a dashboard for it in Home Assistant and sorting out networking.

It's a work in progress, having a lot of fun learning and adding new things.

Update: https://piefed.social/post/1356740

Rate my one year old homelab.
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[–] [S] 34 points 1 year ago (3 children)

A lesson I learnt along the way:

HDD's on your desk are loud AF when you're constantly writing to a database
Solution: Everything except backups and Media run on SSD's

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Depends on the drive too, I have some insanely loud Ironwolf drives and you would never guess they're from the same manufacturer as my practically silent Exos X18s.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago

    The other HDD I have is a WD Gold, it's definitely the louder of the two, both of them are ~5 years old. Now that I moved the databases off of them, they are quieter than my work laptop, so they don't bug me.

    But oh boy, it really did sound like a train yard at one point.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    Some drives are worse than others and higher capacities get worse and worse, in my experience, Seagate drives are extremely loud.

    If you get helium drives (like wd red plus > 8TB i think),or 2nd hand hgst/ WD enterprise drives) they are significantly quieter.

    But, having an ssd is cheaper probably. I have an SSD for the boot drive and all databases, configuration folders, etc... In docker so general IO is fast, then media, documents, pictures, etc... On the big HDDs.

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