Building a Homelab Server Rack!

As someone who is a completely inept tech newbie, what are the benefits to a home server rack and is it worth pursuing? I'm moving in November and I'm trying to figure out how to make a server for all my movies and tv shows to make it easy for my dad to just sit down at the end of his work day and watch his movies without having any cables or minimal cables but I'm not an IT or networking kind of person and I haven't a clue how to even put a computer or anything together but I recognize I need a NAS cause I'm running out of space.

what tool did you use for the budget list at the beginning of the video?

You should run HA on a NAS, not Raspberry pie.

Found your channel just now. I'm also in Germany, and I've built my own rack because I never found anything that would actually be perfect for me :( Bis bald!

Right next to the table? The noise

Wait till your nieces visit and somehow they think they can water the flower for you 😢

Are those Keebio Iris's?!!!

Could we get a more in-depth walk-through of everything working together starting from the ISP through your router and so on and the services you use?

that 3u case is nice but god damn its more expensive then actual hardware including HDDs in my current NAS

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Why does this guy keep getting 6-8TB drives instead of 16-20TB ones?

What's the noise level like? Are Noctua fans (and a different PSU) the solution to the noise?

wolfgang cast "psychic damage"!
it's super effective!

I would just go to a building supply store and buy some perforated steel angles, bolts, washers, nuts and some dolly caster wheels. You could make the sides, top and bottom from sheet metal or acrylic.

Hey Wolfgang, why don't you run Home Assistant on your server?

what filing cabinet is that under the desk?

Unifi ubiquiti sell a nice rack for like 350.

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Sub and like right a way! I'm thinking about setup like that to combine everything from my few buildings :)
All best from Poland :)

i am not any of these type of profession i buy this too use for my consoles the modern consoles i use for my 360 my ps4 slim my switch and my ps5 and my series x and my ps2 too help i even added a metal box too help with cable for my hdmi switch splitters and my two pcs my streaming and gaming i also have them mounted next too them

Nice but one litle thing, if not wall mounted it coud be good to put it on a platform. 40 to 50 cm up makes wonders for dust ingress...

Nice

Do you think it would be a good idea to use that server rack for someone new to this field? What I want to put into it are two 2U units and a switch min

Dope. Very inspiring!

i did all diy home made server 'box' iam not calling it a rack, a shelf might be better. basically its all neat and everything has rubber feet. but it is also acting like a main leg for my new table. I have an old laptop running adguard, other running uptime kuma + mining a bit of bitcoin since i have free energy, everything for the cctvs, and the main router and switchs. i was thinking to get those rack mounts and propley do it later on and get a n semi old laptop to run NAS core. (Yes my servers are all consistant of old laptops that people i know wants to throw away) (don't judge me its hard to get a proper server here, and besides the old laptops are doing an amazing job) and if anyone has any ideas for diy things iam open, i need more ideas or suggestions for something like that XD

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Mate, server integrator here, and it does not hurt! On the contrary! In work I don't really care about noise, and rarely we build our servers. Warranty and support are king. But I still need my home server, for which I accept no noise. I am in the process of selling all tech I have, and start from scratch again. Jepp. ;-) Thanks again!

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The "Why" section was missing the "Because you hate owning money" part.

my Soul died when he said that the enclosed racks couldn't be depth adjusted.... that's just.... false.

Sir I got good idea to assembling server because of you .... Thanku

I wish that I could just ask a company to send me free HDD

dickes Teil, richtig gut :D

I have built small enclosures from Ikea sideboard cabinets for systems - one was in a mate's living room, he wanted to keep all of his kit out of the way and out of sight. He has two servers, a Pi with drives hanging off it, power boards, cabling, cable modem, router and a tertiary remote workstation that runs headless.
We put together a small cabinet (this is a sideboard so about waist height) and we left the back off entirely. The idea was to dissipate heat - the back is up against the wall with just enough gap to let heat out and cables run up to a TV, etc. The doors on the front close easily.
Overall solution - works a TREAT. Super-cheap, wildly civilises the room and cuts down noise quite a bit. Also heat is not a problem (he's in the sub-tropics and it is frequently mid to high 30ss in there, haven't had a single issue even with all systems fully on).
Also found that dust wasn't an issue either - as most case suck air from front to back it tended not to be able to get much in dust-wise through the front doors.
The whole thing is on little legs so its' off the ground by perhaps six inches (standard for the cabinet). Indeed the only mods we made to the cabinet were leaving the back off (just not installing it when putting it together, it wasn't structurally required) and also some screws inside on one side to mount a power board up for neatness.

I personally do this though I was stupid and put the back on mine (I'm in the UK so it's a bit cooler than the other setup). I want to remove the back on mine - I have three servers (2x HP Microservers and a mITX Intel Zeon mini server) as well as a hardware intel based firewall, a Pi with a stack of drives, switches, messy cabling and even a laptop in a dock missing its screen and keyboard that I use as a processing box (wake it with WOL packet and use it to chomp on files, it's running Debian and it's making use of bits of a T420 I had lying around). Because of the back my heat situation isn't as good but the noise and dust situation is brilliant; it's hard to hear the servers except when I wake them, they're storage tanks so they're powered off most of the time.

I think this solution idea is very much worthy of a look for anyone who has systems, switches, cables, power boards, SBCs, you name it - floating around and cluttering a room while producing noise and sucking in dust.

I used to work for WD. As a former employee I can’t say how much they made it easy for me as an L3 support technician. If it came down to data recovery they would pay for customer caused recovery. They wanted customers to be happy and I never had one second of doubt for their commitment to that goal.

Is there a way to access the server via a mobile device like phone and tablets

Ist das unter dem Server case eine „Waschmaschienenunterlage“ ???

Ok, my people, I need some advice, I'm a rehabilitated Mac guy, except for laptops, love my macbook pros. I live in NYC, so a rack server was out of the question; why? Noise, space, power consumption, etc. I went mini and got a NUC 9 pro with the Xeon processor 64GB and I've been running proxmox, and spinning up vms to experiment closer to the metal. I'm finishing up my master's in software engineering, and that gives me a little wiggle room with the wife to expand the home lab. So do I double down on another nuc 9 or go even smaller, like a Morefine s500+ with more CPU power? As you can tell, I'm old school enough to where I like ecc ram but also recognize not all of my lab needs it. I don't do video editing, and gaming is "family" style, so emulating simple Nintendo games is good enough. The end goal is a hybrid I want a system that I can use professionally but can also point out to my wife that all the family entertainment and backups of precious photos and videos make it worth it. In reality, I'm hooked on home labing and want to build it up but I only really have an ikea cabinet worth of space to make it happen. ADVICE??? more NUC 9? do another mini workstation like nuc 12 to lenovo p360 ultra?

I literally spent over 10 hours yesterday searching for info to get a 3U ATX hot-swap rackmount case for a build I am planning. I can't understand why these are so hard to come by. Thanks for your video. Back to my depressing search.

Where are you from? :)

Can you share some pics how your SFX PSU is fitting and mounted?

@wolfgang's Channel FYI, you can buy breakout cables for supermicro front case. Search for ‎CBL-0084L ;)

Loved it! Amazing to see how you adapted enterprise hardware, made decisions based on your requirements and adapted it for your use case (like the one with the PSU and fans for quieter operation and so on)! Keep it up!

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No hablo ni entiendo el ingles y aqui estoy viendo el video xd

What does that server use hdmi or ethernet connection