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Have you ever committed mistakes while setting up your homelab? (self.homelab)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by tired_n_bored to c/[email protected]

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I will start first

I didn't notice my diy NAS motherboard had Pci-E Gen 2.0 (old gen) before buying it. It's not a great limitation (still 500MB/s) for the two spinning disks I have on it, but it'd be if I will decide to switch to SSDs
I cheaped out on the PSU. I bought another one without waiting for that crap to burn down so I eventually spent more
I often break the software. Sometimes I kill the OS or mess with some BTRFS pools

Sometimes I just feel not adequate for it. Does this kind of things happen to you too?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Cheaped out on UPS, now I have three basic small ones I have no use for (they work except the battery isn't good anymore). Would have been better spend a bit more right from the start.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What type/brand do you have now?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I ended up with a second hand APC 1500. Contrary to some other models you can just monitor it with a standard USB cable, just the power cables with these inverted plugs are a bit hard to get these days.