Also looking forward to the build. And also, your Ansible k3s playbooks is a MASSIVE contribution to the open source community, and for that, I’m very thankful. Still using it and it works flawlessly on my cluster.
TechnoTim, I build one after seeing Jeff video, and it worked great, I was able to take to the Southeast Linux Fest. I am using now, since it 90+ outside in Atlanta, with all my bare metal off. I love it.
No rush Tim. You see, Brad confessed that he is bragging about. Just poking. But you will keep the balance in your life! Don't be his 10 inch ... case! We will wait patiently. :)
It's not my mother tongue, so I watched it with cold straight face. Ohkay, a little smirk I had at the after moments. ;) ...'But first!' (A quote from not anywhere but from Idiocracy)
I've been very tempted to pull the trigger on a purchase of one of this racks since I saw it on Geerling's video. It looks tidy and perfect for setting up in my RV... great video! Cheers!
@@52Pi_Maker_Education Yup - the biggest problem is power supply. I'm currently researching which UPS to go with. A POE switch simplifies things somewhat but choosing the right UPS is critical.
Googled power bottom as instructed. Found a lot of useful demonstrations. After about 45 minutes I remembered this was supposed to be about computer stuff.
Outstanding! I must wait for my Social Security check to be deposited on the 18th to order the items. 😂 To be honest, I need this ‘cause I do not have the space for a full rack (at this time), and most of my “home lab” comprises Raspberry Pis and a few mini PCs. So, that rack size is perfect. Thanks again, bro, you nailed it. Stay safe 🙏.
Been dying to build a mini rack. BUT, the only thing that stops my build. Is the lack of a disk shelf. How awesome would it be if you can squeeze in a disk shelf link it up to the mini itx board and you're off to the races! A disk shelf for six 3.5" drives 🤤It would be like squeezing a Jonsbo N3 case into the rack.
10" racks are common run Europe, mainly due to racking low powered devices as electricity is expensive. I have had one for the past 9 years they are great to keep everything uncluttered. Glad to see it is catching on in North America. @raidowl there is a 10" mini its case from myelectronics that fits your 1080.
I'm looking forward to more content on this set up. I actually got a 10" rack a couple of years ago (after seeing a video on it by @NovaspiritTech some three years ago) and it has been sitting my storage just waiting for me to justify buying it . . . This just might get me going on the thing!
It's finally available in Germany as well (don't know how long it's been available for, tbh) and I'm gonna shell out and buy at least one of them. Maybe a second one for my mom and her setup, too. I just love this small thing for small builds and stuff. Good way of starting out your homelab! Throw in some 3D Printing, and I guess you can create really, really cool stuff with it!
🤔Tim got the backwards cap. He can cut through the air and it keeps him planted like a wing. B went full Buddha though with the Mr. Clean hairdo. That jawn aerodynamic AF. This is gonna be a fierce battle!!!
I live near Boston, which is not Texas,. Summer here tries its best to fake it. Room temps in the 80s with effective temps pushing 100 degrees at times. Without AC is very cruel to traditional Mini PCs. I can see such a rack as a center for my Raspberry Pis wearing only good active cooling. I see my Pi 4s as servers with Pi5 as a master node. Now the Pis are in individual cases. A proper rack would help organize them for 24/7 use. Mirrored drives would give me better data protection and central data storage service. I would also like to monitor my systems from a Pi node so I could shut stuff down before heat freezes it. Thanks for the video.
That 10" rack kills me LOL We have a running joke where I work about "standard" 19 inch racks that never seem to fit anything that is a standard 19" form factor.
Hello there, Mr. Owl. I have been researching NAS builds and came across this. Why would a photographer and video maker need a server like this. Thanks for the video. Hopefully you are enjoying your server.
It's actually very simple to drill, and tap your own mounting points on metal like that. If it was me, I would feel way more comfortable with that than some sticky tac.
i was going to say build your own but for 100 bucks not too bad - your setup looks good - nice use of parts and appreciate the bargain vibe - the clock should have seconds (to make sure everything is synced)
Would love to build one myself. I would cluster up some mini PCs, probably four BeeLink EQ12. Top mount a fanless firewall appliance as a router. Similar network switch, maybe something managed. A digiconnect USB over IP hub. A Minisform BD770i build serving namely as the multi-media rig. I know that's overkill, but I want it. Finally, add in a serious NAS solution... not sure if that's another device or something I already mentioned.
A word of caution on that PSU. I had the similar Apevia ITX-AP300W PSU, and it released the magic smoke. I don't recall how long it lasted before it did that, but it definitely wasn't long enough, and definitely should not have been overwhelmed by the system it was running.
with a 40 gig fiber connection, you can become your own Internet Service Provider and sell wi-fi to well known criminals for extra untaxed/unreported income!
Any guides or videos that you can recommend for a non-techy who would like to set-up a mini server rack? Love that you have list of hardware, which lessen the things I need to consider. Thanks,
Yes, i would definitely have this years ago if could. Now i have a full rack but got for 40 dollars at the time. I have too many servers i need to sell no longer need.
that power button is most interesting piece of the build, I checked the details and it's really pity it's not designed for a Mac, any idea if there's a way to power on Mac (Mini or Studio) with dedicated button like this? cheers
honestly ive been considering setting up some form of home server so i love the idea of this! youtube is definitely trying to push me to committing. im curious if you could just use the mini itx as your daily driver tower while running proxmox instead of parsec. i would assume so since you can use the 10" monitor to game, just replace it with larger monitors
If instead of a GTX GPU, you are doing something like this and all you have is an AMD GPU, I would STRONGLY recommend Moonlight and Sunshine, works REALLY well with my AND cards, can even go higher than Parsec's 50mbps bandwidth limit
There's a 3rd party PoE HATs for the Pi 5 by Waveshare. The one you showed doesn't fit the Pi 5 as the PoE power pins on the Pi 5 is different than on the Pi 4
I just watched this because I was like, That looks neat! I honestly have no idea what a lot of it does. I think I understand what a raspberry pi is, but I have no idea what they are actually doing. Help? I want to learn but don't know where to start.
Size of systems do not really impress me anymore as datacenter systems are massive. But these tiny, mini, micro systems you guys put together are honestly quite impressive.
Great video! I'm planning to build a cluster with three Lenovo ThinkCentre M72e, a Raspberry Pi 4 in a Rackmate T1 case, and an 8-port switch. Do you think this setup will work well for a small-scale project ?
