What did you all waste money on for your homelabs this holiday discount season? I snagged a rosewill 4u case for $80 on Newegg. Currently my NAS is a guest in a ryzen based proxmox host in a silverstone case with a ton of 3.5 bays. Gonna move an older supermicro server mobo into that silverstone case and make it a dedicated bare metal NAS that I’ll probably only run a few hours a month, and then build a “new” game/vm server with the ryzen parts in the rosewill case. That way I can run my more demanding stuff without also having to power a bunch of spinning rust all the time. Yes the ~70 watts for 24/7 HDD’s nags at me that much; don’t try to tell me how long it will take me to make my $80 back 😂
What projects did y’all find for yourselves?
Picked up a pair of hdmi of Ethernet extenders from mono price. Not entirely sure what I’m going to do with them but I’m thinking trying to pipe the security feeds up to my main tv on an unused input.
I’ve been wanting to experiment with these for awhile. You should make an update post when you set them up.
I will try to post some sort of update if I do anything cool with them.
If your a youtube watcher Linus from linus tech tips has done a ton with “remote” computing and using various technologies to remove the actual PC from the room the screen is in. He has his positives and negatives but some of the stuff he does really pushes the bounds of whats possible in the consumer space.
I want to use it to send a video feed from a security camera NVR to some more televisions without having to use the buggy software they include. Thanks for the suggestion