This post gave me a little boost of motivation to do some work on my hobby server rack. I work in tech, so this is pretty relevant to regular day work.
Awhile back I had the idea to repurpose old computer parts into a server rack. Anyway, I decided to build a shoddy wooden frame and threw a network device in it which sat alone collecting dust for a few months. I eventually got the items needed, put together the 4Userver and put it in the rack. It just sat there not even plugged in… Then over Thanksgiving, consumerism got the best of me and I bought a NAS to start moving memories out of someone else’s cloud.
Anyway, getting the NAS was the motivation I needed to pick the project back up and start cleaning up my dirty rack. It was the quintessential half-finished project with cords and things strewn about. I started by imaging two old hard drives while installing the 2 metal shelves. Then, I installed those old drives into the 4U server for extra space. I kept running into boot issues because I bumped the SATA cable on my preferred drive. Got it figured out and everything is working again with 2TB thiccer! I also noticed the DVD writer I had installed didn’t work, so I had to remove it.
On the 4U server, I’m running Proxmox with a few LXC containers and a Docker VM which hosts the services that are very easy to run with docker. The NAS has a Linux OS which allows me to install Docker and run other services too. I have a few future projects like upgrade the CPU on the server, getting a VPN setup with gluetun so I can torrent, setting up a DVD RW to archive old discs/data, archive and setup those Macbooks, adding more disk space to the NAS (which only has 2x 4TB NVME drives).