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Yes, it's excellent. Plenty of interchangeable parts, no stupid vendor lockin crap.

I wish someone would build a chassis with flex-hose that can go from a 120mm bracket out the back, and also flex hose between two 120mm brackets (for dual socket). Also a GPU shroud would be nice because almost everybody makes GPUs that just dump heat everywhere.

Also I wish someone would make a chassis with a HEPA air filter integrated in the front panel so it doesn't get dusty and it cleans the room.

@cjd @xaetacore The only thing tower "servers" are useful for are when you don't have a rack, or when you have a regular gpu for the sever and don't want to buy a new gpu.

A tower and a 4U are the same thing, so if you have a rack then just put it sideways. But I don't have enough compute horsepower to require a rack at home...

@cjd @xaetacore You can get a rack for your networking, which can then be also a rack to your server.

In my networking cabinet, everything is a different size, so there's just no rack that really makes sense here.

The stuff on the left is a 12v power supply with relays so I can programmatically power cycle embedded devices (modems) that are under test.

@dcc@annihilation.social @cjd@pkteerium.xyz it's perfect if you don't have a garage or a room to dedicate for servers or if you live in an apartment like me, how to reduce the noise a lot.

But yeah if I had a dedicated room for garage that could muffle noise I will definitely go for racks

@dcc@annihilation.social @cjd@pkteerium.xyz networking equipment is one of those things I prefer to put in rack, mainly because of your consumer or Prosumer you're not often going to hit the load where they start making a lot of noise

@cjd@pkteerium.xyz very organised nice solution!

But the question is what are you putting in the rack?

I've had 1Us, they're a pain in the butt. Everything is proprietary dell crap, there's only one PCIe port, you can't just grab a random ATX PSU off aliexpress.

Even if I had a rack, I'd just do the same build as a 4U and put that in the rack, and then for my needs 36 cores, 256G of ram, 6T of SSD and 6x 12T of rust is everything I need. So what? A rack for 1 server?

@cjd @xaetacore Its called 2u, my dell r720xd is a great example of a server that was only 300-400$ with 256gb of ram 20 cpu cores and has 12 disk shelfs.

How much ram? Because ram really kind of decides how many VMs you can comfortable run...

@cjd @xaetacore I just said 256 gb

Ok, I thought you meant disk. So I spent about 400 on the same thing (minus SSDs and disks), but my setup has no proprietary interfaces at all. The only downside is that I had to build it.

@cjd @xaetacore You mean you have no idrac lol.

Yeah, and I had that on the dell and it did nothing for me.

But I don't just mean that, I mean Dell power supply, Dell SAS backplane, Dell weirdo PCIe port that only can fit Dell ethernet card...

I buy a motherboard from China I get 4 PCIe 16x which will fit anything, 10 SATA ports, any PSU I want, and the whole thing costs 150€...

@cjd @dcc @xaetacore Poast hardware is all on ASRockRack* -- off the shelf boards with server support -- in 1Us with ikvm. Web server is running Genoa EPYC and the database server is running I think Milan EPYC. Might be Rome.

Speaking of ASRock, the fact that they did an EPYC in ITX form factor is the goofiest thing ever, and I kind of want one.

@dcc@annihilation.social @cjd@pkteerium.xyz Idrac and Ilo is nice if your gear is in a DC or you are not able to access it, at home its nice if you are at the office and ur shit eats shit but if you had to pick between more performance or idrac and you homelab, then ditch idrac

@graf@poa.st @cjd@pkteerium.xyz @dcc@annihilation.social Ours is on a cheeky supermicro board, pic earlier our HV, Trying to squeeze every bit of capacity out it but soon ill upgrade my desktop to a new CPU so that means i got a spare board for a new HV tho it will not run critical shit due to no ECC

Cant wait ​​

@cjd@pkteerium.xyz Good things often come in small packages tho i prefer E-ATX