Rising RAM and storage costs pushed a full homelab rebuild
A personal homelab rebuild moved ahead because RAM and storage prices looked unlikely to fall soon. The biggest change was moving scattered storage into one dedicated NAS. Drives were moved out of a and a QNAP 4-bay NAS, with extra Exos X20 added.
Changing the storage layout required copying all data from two older storage pools back and forth. The new setup now has 100TB of usable hard-drive storage and 56TB of usable QLC . A separate database machine handles and large data research, with 10TB of usable SAS TLC .
The older setup used one Proxmox machine for almost , including TrueNAS inside a VM with a passed-through storage . That worked for a while, but RAM and CPU headroom became too tight, and a newer KubeOps-focused workflow made the single Proxmox box less central.
Key points
- RAM and storage price concerns triggered a long-delayed homelab rebuild.
- Scattered drives were consolidated into one dedicated NAS.
- Changing the storage layout required a full copy of the old storage pools.
- The new setup has 100TB of usable hard-drive storage and 56TB of usable QLC .
- The old all-in-one Proxmox machine had become tight on RAM and CPU capacity.