A large rack homelab shows the tradeoffs beyond a Mac mini
A setup grew over two years from loose equipment in a bedroom into organized server and s. The includes a Jellyfin running on TrueNAS on a Dell PowerEdge T430. A separate 2U Supermicro machine also runs TrueNAS and works as a NAS for file storage.
A Dell PowerEdge R730 runs Proxmox with 500 GB of memory. A Dell PowerEdge R740 has 250 GB of memory and two Intel Xeon Gold 6150 processors, and it runs Windows Server 2019 for and IIS. An older Dell R610 is used for pfSense.
The network side uses a UniFi system, including UniFi Protect cameras. The racks are currently in a shop, with a room planned.
Key points
- The equipment moved from a bedroom pile into separate server and s.
- Jellyfin runs on TrueNAS using a Dell PowerEdge T430.
- A 2U Supermicro server acts as a TrueNAS-based NAS.
- A Dell PowerEdge R730 runs Proxmox with 500 GB of memory.
- Windows Server 2019 is used for and IIS on a Dell PowerEdge R740.