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recommendations for small, energy efficient hardware (lemmy.world)
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My use case is a homelab kubernetes cluster, so I want multiple nodes for redundancy, but I don't want to use too much electricity or generate too much heat. But for the sake of other readers, let's keep it general:

What's a nice little computer for a homelab, with its own power supply, ethernet, and room for 2 internal disks?

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[–] 1 point 2 days ago (2 children)

Is the two-disk requirement for capacity, redundancy, or keeping workloads separate? I’m exploring an N150 home-server concept and trying to understand where a compact box becomes too limiting. Storage seems like a decision worth getting right before choosing the enclosure.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 day ago

    Exactly. If you're running kubernetes, you probably want etcd to have its own disk. And if you don't have a NAS, then you're looking at extra disk to hold your data. The data disk should probably be separate from the OS disk.

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