We love building home servers, and apparently so do you.
They're great, but what are you supposed to do with them?
Okay, you might need the odd virtual machine or storage vault or media streamer,
and that would explain, you know, something like this,
but what is this and this and this?
Y'all clearly either got too much money or you just love your day job managing IT
so huggy muggy much that you just can't wait
to do it some more when you get home. I mean, that's clearly the vibe with our first setup here.
This looks incredible. You just spent some time on this.
Got a little bit of consumer level gear down there, an old nook and what seems to be just like an office UPS,
but like, what does he need a Fortinet firewall for at home?
You're like my mate Kevin, shout out Kevin. He loves his Fortinet.
Comes with back doors pre-baked in baby. This dude is a total, total dark.
Like in a good way though. This is his toys. This is his outside.
You don't touch grass, you touch cables. Seems like you're doing good work.
He's doing interesting stuff. And I'm doing an interesting segway to our sponsor.
This is the back of it. Do we have a front picture? Yeah, do we?
Wait, this is kind of what? Is this even plugged in? This is all zip ties though.
Oh no. How do you have this many zip ties for cable management
and still end up with it looking like this?
Oh man. You need so many tips.
Tech tips even. Don't put your access point on a metal surface.
Yep. I mean, this looks like a cobble together rack for learning, which is totally respectable.
If they're doing it for learning, maybe learn how to not use zip ties. You can even see that the problem has already propagated
because these were the first two cables he had and then he had to add a third.
So he just zip tied over the existing two plus the third.
Oh no. Is this in a shipping container?
Yeah, a steel box. Whoa, buddy.
Dude. Dude, I love it.
That is awesome. Look at the surface just sitting on the side there
on the back shelf. This is sick.
Yo. We've got a little workstation too. Start doing this.
This is the dream. Dude, this is like so clean.
Yeah, look, it's got the tool organizers, everything's in like nice little buckets.
Wait, wait, wait. I wish our server closet could look like. I buried a hundred meters of fiber up the driveway.
Oh, that's awesome. Yeah, that's the coolest one by far so far.
You win.
Wait, is it before and after? I thought this was a shelf. Sorry, I thought you were getting to the post.
No, this is the shelf. No, this is the post. Oh, this is the whole thing.
This is respectable. He's running Proxmox, a lot of Proxmox out here.
What is your setup dude? What is he doing? Before and after.
Oh, it's just before or after. I mean, it's not much better.
Is this like a Faraday cage he's built?
Oh, oh, these might be like small cells.
They are. He works in the cellular space and does a lot of testing. If you're not familiar,
it's basically like your own mini cell tower. Which is extremely illegal.
Well, unless you have a Faraday that. Yeah.
I mean, I don't think that's how that works, but. I don't know.
That is sick. That is so cool.
This is really sick. I'm gonna write this one down. But why do you have two,
what appear to be identically configured switches up here?
I think they're the same. They're just different labels of different generations. Yeah. Is this like a fully redundant,
like high availability setup at home? So what do you do with all this networking?
There is no servers in here. Is there not?
There's none. R slash home lab. It's not like R slash battle station
where you just, you know what they're doing with it. There's a VR headset. They're, you know, doing some stuff.
This is like, look at all the stuff I have.
Guess, bitch.
Wow. That's a lot of storage. It's a lot of two and a half inch Bay storage.
Wow. These are like sass drives.
Yeah. The, the frequency in there keeps teenagers away.
Yeah. This one's really clean. It is.
Show me, show me your back fat. So I like, Jesus.
Okay. He's got a lock. It's where he keeps the drugs, I guess.
So he keeps the receipts from his wife. Yeah. It cost me 12 bucks.
You, you spent, well, I probably did.
Why is it Christmas lab? Ah, with better cable management than most of the things
that we've seen so far. And you notice like the lack of zip ties.
It's a Christmas tree. It's a Christmas tree. I mean, that's more use than some of the people
who are doing for their home Labs, it seems like. I almost wish it was AI,
because somehow it's more painful for me that the human effort, rather than the electricity,
was wasted building this. This is why your support tickets aren't being answered.
This is your home lab?
This is nicer than our infra. They'll technically a home lab,
but I think home data center is more appropriate. Why are you making me feel inadequate like this?
Oh, okay. Yeah, I'm a...
Danny, let's go to the bathroom for a minute. I just need everybody to leave.
Wow. Wow. What?
What do you have plugged into this? What is all this stuff?
So in the comments, Jeff, who's the OP is the CTO of SureScripts.
Oh, okay. What are you doing in your house?
Dude.
Cool. Okay. Oh, I love it.
Very DIY, very functional.
At least the small out of the way. Yeah. Oh, look it.
See, look, he's got a diagram. Wow.
Now we can see exactly what's going on. I saw repository. I saw repository.
Yeah. Sure. Very modest, very functional.
Yeah. Full view of the home lab.
Oh, I like this guy's got captions. Wow. Oh, it's in a built-in.
No way. Oh, that's sick. Custom soundproofing for silence
and integration with home automation and energy management.
That's kind of cool. That's pretty cool. How do you have that much networking in your home?
Really? You're gonna ask that question?
Hey, look. This has to be a whole house control or something.
Yeah, like he's got a smart house. It's all like control four. That's why there's so many Ethernet cables.
He's built it dedicated new. When they built the house, they put the closet in.
This is... You knew what you're about,
and I respect that greatly. Apparently the servers are inaudible.
Stable 30 degrees Celsius. Two and a half gig to all rooms.
Yeah, that's what you need. A leak sensor above the rack to shut off the AC.
Starts out as I want an S. This is how we started.
I think this is called gateway drug. Bruh.
Wow. What a battle station.
Yeah. I've never understood monitor setups like this.
No, because it's too much. You can't, you cannot use that much monitor.
It's not even efficient. Like this actually makes you slower unless you're like a stock trader.
Aren't those for like doing car detailing? What? Oh, those light bars?
Yeah, they're like the heck light. This whole subreddit is just like wealth shaming.
Like it actually is. Four, four, four.
That looks awesome. Is this the same dude?
The CTO. The same guy? This is this freaking guy? I understand why this guy is so into it
because he's the CTO of another company. So at some point, I'm imagining he used to actually
get to do stuff and now he just tells people to do stuff.
This is like Linus who doesn't get to do things around the office because he has people for that now.
And this guy goes home and like, I remember when I started.
Huh? Seven terabytes of RAM. Huh?
What are you doing? When is too much? This.
$40,000 ago. This is a rhetorical question.
15,000 watts? What?
What are you even doing? I need to like check myself before I end up like this.
75 to 90% of it is off most of the time.
So he just, he just has it. Yeah, I have a whole lab.
But I don't use it, but I have it.
48 node cluster in the garage.
Whoa. On $20 shelves.
Yeah, with $2 power strips. Oh my goodness.
The shelves are not. How have they not melted? Now that looks like something that I would build.
Spoiler, it doesn't perform great.
Self-destruct after 20 to 24 nodes. I mean, this is a way of finding that out.
You use cheap old hardware, you try stuff, and hey, at least we know what this was actually for.
He actually did something with it. Yeah. I love it then.
Yep. Officially love it.
Whoa, designed my own storage chassis with 56 drive bays.
Okay, that's pretty cool. Nice. This is some Frankenstein level stuff.
I love it. That is pretty sleek for a custom case.
This is really sick though. I mean, I have had thoughts of doing something like this
so many times, and I've kind of been surprised that nobody else has done it.
The big thing is the connectivity, because you can make something
that's like mostly 3D printable. You can make a 3D printed drive enclosure,
but how do you connect them all? And this guy made some custom PCBs for it.
That's not something that you can 3D print. No, at least not in its entirety.
No need to pay for birth control anymore.
Oh my. Are you sure?
Are you sure? Because when she comes over and sees this, you might be like, wow, that's a big scope.
Siglint, we've got a digital storage oscilloscope.
We've got another oscilloscope. We've got a- There's another HP, like the vintage HP stuff.
This is a spectrum analyzer. That is like the best stuff.
National instruments as well. Oh my God.
Well, this is interesting. This looks like a toy.
That is super cool. Monty. 3D printed mini rack.
What am I even looking at? The power supply on the side there.
Yeah. A whole bunch of- Like that's pies?
Pie for view modules maybe? Yeah, server rack for pies.
That's so cool. And some Intel Nooks as well, seven inches wide.
So it's only about this big, which is a perfectly okay size.
I'm no hardware engineer, so this is likely a fire hazard.
I am feeling very inspired.
Right? Two stuff, what are you gonna do with the stuff though, Dan?
Well, I mean, one of them is a machine learning server,
and I use it to learn full stack dev and Broxmox and stuff like that.
And then of course- So what you're saying is- Piracy. Okay.
Everything always comes back to piracy. Oh my God.
Is this a little lightning grid? Is it a little lightning trusses interesting?
Whoa! That is hot. This is kind of up your alley too, eh?
Yeah, he's got the- Yeah, mm-hmm. The that.
I wanna do that. Truss. I've never even considered doing truss.
Yo! Whoa! What a f***ing nerd!
He's using the truss to mount his monitors. Oh!
That stuff's expensive. Yeah, it's pretty, yeah. Why, he's got road cases?
That's all audio equipment? Yo! This is what Dan wishes he was.
Oh, right. LTTstore.com.
The hat. And the shirt. It's just a blank black shirt, but it's nice.
It's a pie cluster! It's a Kubernetes pie cluster.
See, I love these things. They're so cute when people do pie clusters.
They're not cost effective in terms of the performance per dollar
in any way, shape, or form. Yeah, but they're performance per square foot.
Nope, still not that. Yeah, they're just cute.
Sharing the heat since between two machines each.
And it looks like they just took these- The heat pipes and just friggin' sent it on here.
100% unnecessary work. The best kind of work.
I could just put a fan on it.
But why? But why do that when I could- I have his heat sinks. Exactly, and these heat pipes.
And I've always wanted to learn how to bend heat pipes. Yeah. I'm in your head.
I get you, I see you. I have been you.
Home lab meets battle station. Aye! That's cute.
I love it. That's sweet. And the desk lighting.
Desk lighting matches the rack lighting. As long as this isn't too loud, I love this setup.
Wait, okay. Help me. Wait, is that an alienware?
You're a home labber. You bought an alienware desktop?
Mobile home lab. Okay, sick. That is a very rugged crate.
That looks military. That's pretty cool.
That's cool. A little for you or so? Yeah.
Working overseas for the next year and had a minute or tries most of my normal setup, so I can take it with me.
To do what with? To do what with?
It's like a laptop, but 100 pounds. Why?
What's a grandpa home lab? Whoa, that's ancient. Oh, that is a grandpa home lab.
Early 90s? 80s, mid 90s? Yeah, maybe late 80s even.
Are those five inch bays? The color's not right for late 80s.
It was EOL in 2007.
Yeah, this is ancient. It's probably older than me.
Is there a lab here somewhere? I think so.
There's a monitor, there's a switch. There's networking.
There's definitely some servers. Oh my God, this is me.
This is what I'm, I'm not this bad, but I'm close to this bad.
There is stuff actually running in here. Oh God. You know what I think can help you with this though?
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