Thread 107048040

is having a server rack in your apartment unironically the new normal in 2025

>>107048040 (OP)
that seems tight

>>107048040 (OP)
having a server rack in your apartment is mandatory for pedos/porn addicts

>>107048040 (OP)
I have two short ones instead of one 42U
does come in handy if you have several machines for whatever reason

>>107048040 (OP)
stop doing that since people coming over see that then think they can call anytime when they have computer/network even electrical (yah they don't know the difference). was getting tired of that so all the tech stuff is hidden away.

>>107048040 (OP)
Lends a fresh take to "Battle Station" innit?

I was actually thinking of building a rack mounted render server for Blender.

>>107048040 (OP)
use case?

>>107048144
>posting AIslop out of nowhere
why the fuck should I listen to you?

>>107048040 (OP)
Im poor so no

>>107048508
Just stop being that. So simple

>>107048483
actually doing the shit that tech companies promised us by now

>>107048503
because he's a boomer and he's actually right dumbass
people see that shit and
>anon, do you mind coming over to fix my internet? my download speeds are slow
will be endless, and if any of them are your girlfriend's friends or wife's friends you'll be dealing with it one way or another
Annoying as shit, personally. You do you, maybe people don't come over to your house very often. Lucky you

>>107048040 (OP)
Can you get rid of your PC case and integrate it into your rack? Like a normal person?

>>107048040 (OP)
it's overkill for a home server

I keep mine in my basement

I just use a heavily overclocked intel cpu + raspberry pi for my home servers :3

>>107049387
based. i use an r630 with a bunch of used enterprise disks and 4 rpi3's

>>107048040 (OP)
everyone i know has one. at least one per family member.
a friend bought one in advance for his 2 year old daughter for her future school asignments
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i got like 5 at home. the last one is octo-unit some dell cluster that monitors my dogs gps collar.
then i use a pair of 36-cpu so the whole family can watch some videos and listen to podcasts or whatever
the last one is for doing some light spreadsheets. you never know when you need some computing power for those excel formulas. its got about 2048GB of ram. heh, no worries about getting stuck now.

i'm currently looking into buying a sixth rack for my son so there is enough space to store his games. i dont know if 200 TB will be enough for his first pc.
making sure there is at least 5 TB of ram.

you should have seen the face of my wife when she saw all those racks, now she gives me 30 blowjobs per day, she sucked me so dry i have no testosterone left. i got to make her stop.

>>107048551
>Just stop being that. So simple
how?
I'm brown btw

>>107048040 (OP)
PS. everyone just loves the noise.
the dog can't get enough of it. he literally sleeps beside the cabinets

>>107049512
based and server pilled

>>107048040 (OP)
so this is why every yugoslav commieblock pad had that pantry, literally BVILT for a 19" rack

>>107048040 (OP)
this looks like a niggerliscious office space room

>>107048040 (OP)
Computers are always quietest at ear-level!

what is the usecase of a personal server

>>107050020
larping and not getting cucked by proprietary hosted services
(source: i use my home servers for both)

>>107050043
what data is so bulky that I need to host it myself

>>107048040 (OP)
What even is the point for having a server this big? For home use a mini nas is more than enough, it will take pretty much no space, and it will make much less noise.

>>107048040 (OP)
Totally. House pricing is fucked but im not waiting to buy a house and being even further behind. The moat to owning your own media and digital life gets wider every month. Ive got a 27U in the extra bedroom I use as an office, has my gaming rig, three proxmox HA nodes that host containers for music, tv and movies, audio and ebooks, podcasts, game library, etc. 80TB storage server and 30TB backup NAS, surveillance machine for my cameras, and the machine i work from. I pay for email and VPN $10 a month, no other subscriptions. I use that money to invest in more storage and compute as needed. Server rack idles at 180W, 24db thanks to noctua fans in literally everything since I work 5 feet from it. If I hadn't started 4 years ago when I did and waited who knows how long until i have a house I’m sure it would be so much harder to accomplish. I recommend everyone start if they haven't already. Apartment or not. Time is of the essence.

>>107048040 (OP)
no that's retarded LARP you don't need a 19" rack. used rack servers might be cheap but you'll more then pay for the electricity bill and screeching noise.

just a little nas box and some mini PCs or raspberry pis and a switch and router you've got your muh home lab meme.

>but muh cisco certs
just download ROMs and GNS3 emulate the hardware. inserting cable into ports isn't hard.

>>107048040 (OP)
Looks comfy until the sweaty OP wakes up deaf in his right ear because he was binging hulu all night.

Why would you have a rack instead of a mini pc and virtualization? have a cluster if you like

>>107050977
You know what, on further thought I retract my consternation. If having a rack brings you wonderment and joie d'vivre then have at it. It's no worse than buying CRTs and ThinkPads.

>>107050473
log dumps...

>>107049299
Based(ment)

>>107049299
Wish i had this much hair left desu

>>107048040 (OP)
Very cringe.

let me more, you need guess

>>107050993
wholesome and hopepilled.
this is what i've always said about being racist. I mean if it brings you joy whats the harm in that

>>107048040 (OP)
usecase?

>>107049104
>will be endless, and if any of them are your girlfriend's friends or wife's friends you'll be dealing with it one way or another
Domestication and it's consequences have been a disaster for the human race

If I didn't have an embarassing-by-global-standards 100/20 MB connection (which is also behind CGNAT) I would feel more inclined to build a homelab worthy of installing in a rack, but alas I live in Australia; they do however also make those 10" mini-racks meant for small setups involving NUCs and Raspberry Pis and stuff, but nowadays when you can fit a Ubiquiti Gateway into one of those- and I mean the new Fiber XG thing that can handle 10GB connections, even a mini rack feels kind of pointless with how shit my WAN speed is (plus the fact I'd have to pay to set up a VPS or Cloudflare tunnel just to access it all outside of my home).

>>107048040 (OP)
i don't see why i would something more than picrel, though my storage requirements are pretty modest

Of course not, how autistic do you have to be to ask that?

>>107048040 (OP)
I've never seen anybody in person using a server rack but they look really cool and remind me of lain.
>>107050463
I love Fuuka

>>107048144
Lean how to say "NO!"
It's not that fucking hard. Don't let people take advantage of you simply because you know how to do something that they can't.

>>107050432
It's been years since I've seen some Liniku Ushijima content. I feel so fucking old now.
>>107050450
My end-goal is something reasonable like this.
>>107051382
NOPE. I too am rocking an N3 case with UPS setup. I've only started my media hoarding journey and don't yet see the need to go full tower rack yet.

>>107048040 (OP)
Why would you put it in the middle of the room like that and why a half empty full-sized rack?

>>107048040 (OP)
If you aren't a retard? Yes.

>>107052018
>rocking an N3 case
how is the backplane on your case? I was getting tons of ATA and CRC errors with mine and had to connect all my drives directly to the HBA/motherboard instead, zero issues since then

>>107052295
No issues on my end.
It's a chink case so I'm sure they let a few failed backplane boards slip through the QC process.
Or it may just be my setup. I know most people go backplane to HBA card, but I picked up a Chink mobo with 2 SFF-8643 (Mini-SAS) ports that allow me to fanout to all 8 ports on the backplane.
I picked it up for $250 during a sale. It now goes for $400-500. Lots of nice features I intend to later take advantage of (20 PCIE lanes, up to 96GB of ram, USB 4.0/Thunderbolt, 2x10G ports).

>>107048040 (OP)
>buy gigatall server rack
>only 4U worth of rackmounted devices are installed in it (not sure whats on the very bottom but it doesn't look racked)
>throw personal PC, wifi router, printer and UPS into the thing on shelves
>"yeah i think this looks gas"

>>107052776
oh, you got one of those, nice! aren't the SFF-8643 running through a JM585 or any other sort of multiplexing chips that share lanes? I hate when chinks do that to save some pennies

also how is the 8845HS efficiency wise? I was considering this route but ended buying mobo + i3 12100 for lowest possible power consumption, as all N100 boards I could find were shit

>>107048040 (OP)
>server rack
>normal
Not even close

>>107050473
What if someone came in there and pissed all over and shot their load all over your server? All that toilet water splashing on it, imagine a toilet over flowing and someone whips the plunger and smacks the server
Your life is about to get a whole lot more difficult unless you lock that bathroom

>>107053699
>someone whips the plunger and smacks the server
L M A O

>>107050473
I see that Tampico on the top of your server
You know how to make toilet wine, my cousin in Alabama who served 10 years for robbery showed me how
He said it's easy to pass the time in the hole when you get fucked up every day

>>107048483
take photos of it for /g/ threads

>>107048040 (OP)
maybe for running giant llms locally at full precision

>>107050062
I'm not really sure what you mean by this question - as opposed to paying a hosting company to just hold your data?
"Hosted" implies the data is also available on some network. My storage server is used by a bunch of different computers and a bunch of friends/family outside my LAN who use it (indirectly through services i host) as well.
If you have only a single desktop and just want to back up your shit then you can just put a big HDD inside and use that, but thats not "hosting".
And either way, if i have even just 1-2tb of data that would cost a lot of money to have some cloud company just hold onto for me (vs the used 4tb SAS drives I got for ~$25 each or whatever).

I salute everyone who has any local compute/storage running no matter if it's just an old laptop or a bunch of 42U racks.

>>107053591
Nope, no lane sharing, they didn't chink-out on the board. The two NVMe slots (one is on the back with the ram), are both PCIe 4.0x4. They took full advantage of the 20 PCIe lanes that the APU provides.

The TDP out of the box is 48w, but it can be lowered to 15w in the bios. I didn't notice any major difference after lowering the TDP. The 8845HS handles anything you toss at it. The only thing it can't do is Transcode AV1, so I got a Sparkle Intel Arc A310 ECO.

>>107050435

Based weather station user.

I'm an ambient weather man myself.

>>107054163
Curious. What kind of idle power draw you got on that server?

>>107054220
24-26w for me.
I do have a few things plugged into the USB ports, so if unplugged, the C-state might go lower. However this is fine for me.

>>107050020
If you actually use computers for a living, then having a powerful computer is useful for running many VMs with different OSes to test stuff under many conditions. Powerful computers are noisy, so you want to keep them away well away from your ears.

Using your gayman computer for work is a very bad idea.

If you are just a computer user, the only real use is a NAS for your movies or music.

If you don't have movies or music files, then you are a consumer and need to let others deal with the complicated stuff.

OK you idiots, time for some truth: Rack mounted gear is noisy, expensive and a pain to upgrade. You want rack mount gear is because you think it looks impressive. This is emotional reasoning, not rational reasoning.

>>107054539
Spoken like a seething poorfag that has never seen proper rack equipment.
t. running a silent fully loaded 42U ~2 meters behind me right now

>>107054544
>never seen proper rack equipment
I've coloed servers at the QIX

>>107054539

I just combined my home theater equipment, family printer, main gaming rig (tower) + server (tower). All my ISP modem, router, switch and like 10 billion wallwarts in the back of the rack because its ugly anyway you dress up the cables. Towers are much easier to pull out anyway when on the bottom then unscrewing overly large rack chassis which want to swing down when you loosen the screws.

>>107054403
Retard here. Can you actually connect SAS hdd's to those connectors and have them work? Does the ASM1166 controller read SAS drives or do I need a seperate HBA? I have access to SAS drives MUCH cheaper than SATA and this board looks phenomenal.

>>107054544
NTA, but if your only rebuttal is an emotional attack then it seems Anon has a valid point.

>>107054649
>emotional attack
>OK you idiots
>because you think it looks impressive

>>107054626
I believe it's just using the SAS connectors because of the limited space on the itx motherboard and to limit overall cable clutter, as the Mobo comes with two "SAS-to-SATA" cables.
My case, the N3, has a backplane that can take both SATA and SAS drives. I unfortunately don't have any SAS drives to test, So I don't know if they'll be noticed by the mobo.

>>107048040 (OP)
why?
what possible server would you need at home that you cant put in a single minipc or a an ATX
also
>putting a wifi router inside a conductive server rack

>>107048040 (OP)
>CompTIA cert as a flex
Cringe

>>107048040 (OP)
it's always useful to have a business ready servers & rack in your home, separated from your network, that way you have redundancy

>>107048040 (OP)
>Uncle anon is this where you store all you boomershooter mods and 2000s porn?
>yes now pick up that tower we got a lan party to set up

>rack
are you a pretentious faggot
all you need is a define 7 (not even XL)

>>107054539
>Rack mounted gear is noisy, expensive and a pain to upgrade.
all my rack mounted computers are 3/4u with big silent fans and normal e/atx motherboards that can be replaced like any computer could be - what are you talking about exactly?

>>107054163
>They took full advantage of the 20 PCIe lanes that the APU provides
sweet! what controller are they using for the SAS?

>>107048040 (OP)
bad feng shui

>>107048040 (OP)
Im putting mine on the third floor in my home gym

>>107048040 (OP)
no but it should be

basically racks at home are ferrets
literally the exact same thing

>>107050435
Hot air exhausts into the corner?
>>107050440
Cool air seems to come from those cutouts toward the bottom?


Lame

>>107048040 (OP)
that seems like the most retarded place to put it in that room
>>107048132
damn...

>>107050020
It's just personal cloud storage m8 innit

>>107050020
>>107050062
porn, movies, tv shows
i also use my server for vms and anything else (like an irc bouncer) that needs to have lots of uptime

>>107048040 (OP)
So what actually makes up most of the stuff you'd put in a rack? I understand part of it is the servers themselves, the router, and the UPS. But what else?

nigger get yourself a houseplant or something jesus christ

>>107048144
>can you..
no, I already have a job

>>107050239
For hobbyists, you eventually want to try out the “big iron” that they run in data centres, and along with that comes a proper rack. You pick up cheap old server shit off of eBay or whatever and build up your own little data centre.

The other main case is people with data-hoarding issues that build massive storage shelves. Managing that shit without a rack is a massive pain.

As for the size, it’s cause full sized 42U racks are far easier to come by for good prices than more reasonably sized ones.

But yeah, for most households a decent NAS-oriented chassis will be all you need.