I get asked a lot about what hardware I recommend for homelabs and home servers. It's a very difficult question since it depends on what exactly you want to get out of your setup. But, whatever you choose, I'm starting a new series where I'll setup all of the commonly requested home server software in a single box. Since I want to try this on both used and new hardware, here's a low cost NAS you can buy brand-new and run your own software on it!
A few basics of this guy:
- Terramaster F2-223 - F2 means 2-slot cube form factor, -2 is dual core, 23 is the 'new' series (at least when this video was produced)
- Intel Celeron N4505 dual core
- Dual DDR4 sodimm slots, comes with 1x 4G stick and one easily accessible empty slot. I added an 8G stick to bring it up to 12G so I can do virtualization
- Dual Intel I225-v3 2.5G NICs
For more information such as cpu info, pci, ... see the blog post:
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A few upsides:
- They are pretty cheap for the HW you get new
- Mix of SATA and NVMe storage options, for bulk storage and high speed storage
- x86 processor so it can run Linux based OSes well
- Intel I225 2.5Gbe NIC is considered 'good' compared to Realtek chipsets, and widely compatible across OSes such as Linux and BSD
A few downsides:
- The included software seems to want to install itself on your drive as the boot disk, but I was unable to get it to do so in a short amount of time so I gave up and installed Proxmox (which I was planning on doing anyway)
- The internal USB seems to perpetually change some BIOS/UEFI settings back to default, removing it fixed all of the issues I had getting it to boot Proxmox properly
- The second RAM stick is harder to get to, although I don't think you realistically need more than 12G of RAM to go with this much CPU power. Maybe it would matter more for the quad-core version
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Buy the Terramaster F2-223: amzn.to/3CgJwg4
You should also consider the quad-core versions if you want to do more virtualization, so you'd want a model with the -423 suffix (F2-423, F4-423, U4-423).
The RAM I bought: amzn.to/3VMx91T (Pair) or amzn.to/3ZabG60 (Single)
Try to find an HP Microserver like mine on eBay: ebay.us/10HV63
This video is part of my Ultimate Home Server Megaproject:
• Ultimate (Proxmox) Hom...
Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
01:50 - The Other Option
02:31 - Hardware Overview
04:34 - Teardown
08:24 - Hard Drive Trays
09:26 - Out of Box Software
12:50 - Getting Proxmox to Boot
14:08 - Proxmox Setup
14:55 - Power Consumption
15:37 - Mini Server Project
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#homelab #homeserver
16 авг 2024
