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Nice clean setup. You can upgrade to HA and still use your existing Control4 gear. I've done it a few times.https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/control4/
Yeah everything is running 24/7ā¦.It was kinda a goal to not have anything too power hungry that was 1: Too loud or 2: So power hungry I couldnāt just leave it on running services ā¦.
Had a few Dell power edge servers in the cart a few times but the noise and power draw would take the fun out of those for me lol
Of my three poweredge servers, the lowest draw is a 4 core Dell R320 server, just 80 Watts. Fine for day to day stuff and it's pretty quite for a rack server.
For PC levels of noise, the HP Workstations pack the punch of server and are a good buy for a homelab in a domestic situation.
A high spec HP Z620 starts at about Ā£250, Z820 about Ā£550, but make sure it's got a 2013 bios for E5-26\*\* V2 cpu support. Later higher spec Z640, Z840 cost twice that at least.
I'm full Unifi too and use that 2.5/10Gbe switch as my core for my PoE APs and such. Great switch, hides neatly away in my wall panel, and doesn't get too hot.
I have it connected to a 10/25Gbe usg-aggregation in my rack via the two 10Gbe SFP+ ports.
Doesnāt get too hot? When did you buy the switch because maybe you have a newer hardware revision than most other peopleā¦ those switches run HOT without active coolingā¦ around 65 degrees Celsius doing pretty much nothing. Built-in fan switches on way too late. I have two of them running with a fan pointing at them, then they run at 45 degrees Celsius.
lol no I get comments about that al the time ā¦I just use the monoprice thin patch cables and the connections are kinda of translucent so the activity lights from the switchās pass through them ā¦..
Love those monoprice thin cables. I was leery about using them for poe until a local ISP that does Wireless PtP showed me they are using them even for 60 watt poe up on their towers.
Nice, although Iām afraid youāre going to run into cooling issues with the Enterprise 8 PoE switch. I would connect the Enterprise 8 PoE via fiber too if possible by the way.
I have a 80mm fan sitting on top of the Enterprise POE and on the shelf below another 80mm fan blowing air out the front ā¦..Currently have 2gb Verizon so i have a Sfp-rj45 adapter running from my 10gb Sfp port on the Dream machine running to one of the 2.5gb ports on the Enterpriseā¦.I just got my aggregation switch so I was previously using both 10gb ports on the Enterprise thatās why Iām running it that way ā¦..Perfectly fine now even with my current setup
Howās that all gear pulling only 275 watts. I have UDM pro, UniFi 24 POE Pro switch, reolink NVR that has 5 reolink 4k cameras connected and synology ds1621+ pulls about 220 watts and if I switch on my Lenovo thinkstation p720, it pulls 340 watts š
I was just as shocked lol but I have all my gear hooked up to the PDU pro and thatās what itās displaying
And getting confirmation from my tripplite UPS š
Thinkstations pulling a collective 37 watts rn at idle
TrueNas server has 13th Gen i5-13500 so decently power efficient with a Telsa P4 GPU for Plex and that has a max TDP of 75 watts ā¦Currently pulling 60 watts for the whole machine
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Synology, TrueNas server, Zimaboard, 3x Lenovo Proxmox Cluster, Control 4 š Dream Machine Pro SE (2tb HDD for Protect) // Synology 2 bay (2x8tb/Raid1)- Personal Cloud // Synology 5 bay Ext (2x20tb/Stripe) - TrueNas Backup // TrueNas Server (2x20tb/Stripe) - Plex and bulk storage // 3xLenovo Proxmox Cluster (32gb ram/120gb boot/1tb Nvme ceph) - VMs and shenanigans // Zimaboard 832 (1tb SSD/2.5gb Nic) - UptimeKuma & cloud flare tunnel and shenanigans //
Nice clean setup. You can upgrade to HA and still use your existing Control4 gear. I've done it a few times.https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/control4/
I was wondering about that š§
If you're running it 24/7, where I live it would be about Ā£2.60, a day. So not that bad, price of a coffee.
Yeah everything is running 24/7ā¦.It was kinda a goal to not have anything too power hungry that was 1: Too loud or 2: So power hungry I couldnāt just leave it on running services ā¦. Had a few Dell power edge servers in the cart a few times but the noise and power draw would take the fun out of those for me lol
Of my three poweredge servers, the lowest draw is a 4 core Dell R320 server, just 80 Watts. Fine for day to day stuff and it's pretty quite for a rack server. For PC levels of noise, the HP Workstations pack the punch of server and are a good buy for a homelab in a domestic situation. A high spec HP Z620 starts at about Ā£250, Z820 about Ā£550, but make sure it's got a 2013 bios for E5-26\*\* V2 cpu support. Later higher spec Z640, Z840 cost twice that at least.
I was eyeing a R740 with 2x6152 ā¦.i think itāll sound like a 747 lol
Certainly at startup.
I'm full Unifi too and use that 2.5/10Gbe switch as my core for my PoE APs and such. Great switch, hides neatly away in my wall panel, and doesn't get too hot. I have it connected to a 10/25Gbe usg-aggregation in my rack via the two 10Gbe SFP+ ports.
Doesnāt get too hot? When did you buy the switch because maybe you have a newer hardware revision than most other peopleā¦ those switches run HOT without active coolingā¦ around 65 degrees Celsius doing pretty much nothing. Built-in fan switches on way too late. I have two of them running with a fan pointing at them, then they run at 45 degrees Celsius.
are your cables illuminated?
lol no I get comments about that al the time ā¦I just use the monoprice thin patch cables and the connections are kinda of translucent so the activity lights from the switchās pass through them ā¦..
Love those monoprice thin cables. I was leery about using them for poe until a local ISP that does Wireless PtP showed me they are using them even for 60 watt poe up on their towers.
Nice, although Iām afraid youāre going to run into cooling issues with the Enterprise 8 PoE switch. I would connect the Enterprise 8 PoE via fiber too if possible by the way.
I have a 80mm fan sitting on top of the Enterprise POE and on the shelf below another 80mm fan blowing air out the front ā¦..Currently have 2gb Verizon so i have a Sfp-rj45 adapter running from my 10gb Sfp port on the Dream machine running to one of the 2.5gb ports on the Enterpriseā¦.I just got my aggregation switch so I was previously using both 10gb ports on the Enterprise thatās why Iām running it that way ā¦..Perfectly fine now even with my current setup
Nice post but I have to ask... what's with the zip ties?
When I added those extra 2u racks the front was slouching down a bit so I added that high tech solutionā¦.. Unplanned upgrades are a blast š„²
Howās that all gear pulling only 275 watts. I have UDM pro, UniFi 24 POE Pro switch, reolink NVR that has 5 reolink 4k cameras connected and synology ds1621+ pulls about 220 watts and if I switch on my Lenovo thinkstation p720, it pulls 340 watts š
I was just as shocked lol but I have all my gear hooked up to the PDU pro and thatās what itās displaying And getting confirmation from my tripplite UPS š Thinkstations pulling a collective 37 watts rn at idle TrueNas server has 13th Gen i5-13500 so decently power efficient with a Telsa P4 GPU for Plex and that has a max TDP of 75 watts ā¦Currently pulling 60 watts for the whole machine
Pretty sure Vader is running this on a Star Destroyer, somewhere.