A DVD project grew into a full home server rack
About 30 DVDs needed to be watchable on a TV, so the movies were copied with MakeMKV. That small job quickly turned into a need for a NAS and a better home network. The current setup uses a 12U rack with a cable modem, UDR7, NAS, , UniFi 2.5 gigabit switch, two mini PCs, a power unit, and an APC Pro 1000s battery backup.
The NAS is a 2-bay UGREEN DXP2800 with two 8 terabyte drives in RAID1, 16 gigabytes of memory, and NVMe storage for cache or faster storage. The main server is an AMD Ryzen 7 mini PC with 32 gigabytes of memory and a 1 terabyte SSD running Proxmox with two . One small Linux Mint handles miscellaneous work, mostly HandBrake video conversion.
A larger Debian acts as a Docker host and is managed with Dockge. An old Zotac ZBOX runs directly, with Z-Wave and Zigbee dongles, ESPHome and humidity sensors, and Aqara motion and door sensors. Blue rack lights turn on through and a motion sensor.
Key points
- The setup started with copying about 30 DVDs for TV viewing.
- The UGREEN 2-bay NAS uses two 8 terabyte drives in RAID1.
- An AMD Ryzen 7 mini PC runs Proxmox with Linux Mint and Debian .
- The Debian is used as a Docker host managed by Dockge.
- An old Zotac ZBOX runs with Z-Wave, Zigbee, ESPHome, and Aqara sensors.