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I bit the bullet and finally bought a mini PC for my home lab. This lets me decommission the (10y) old Intel i7-3540 laptop, and double the total capacity of the lab. Proxmox-driven k3s cluster will be the 1st use case.

24/11/24, 2:31 pm0 reposts0 likes

Milan Aleksić

@aleksic.dev

12 Jan 2025

Well, this didn't work out in the end - some motherboard issue, first SSD was disappearing and then the ethernet port could not get up. I sent it back. I am assuming I had some bad luck & will try another minisforum machine before changing brands or just building the machine myself

Milan Aleksić

@aleksic.dev

24 Nov 2024

The home lab backbone remains, though, Ansible+Nomad (for the foreseeable future) because I made it work so well over the years. The mini PC I chose is minisforum UM870 (Ryzen 7 8745H, 64GB DDR5, 1TB 990 Pro) & pretty happy so far

Milan Aleksić

@aleksic.dev

24 Nov 2024

It is also unbelievable how some tech like Synology DS413j just... still works (with changed drives and unsupported DSM OS version though) after more than a decade.