I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs
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I don't have the space for a "lab" anymore, but here is what mine looked like way back between 2003 to around 2008:
Full gallery: http://shuey.deviantart.com/gallery/454063/Home-NetworkA couple shots from the gallery:
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I wish that I had pictures of my old lab from the late 1990s. It was pretty crazy. Huge old metal table with a low of green screen CRT 386 and 486 Linux machines.
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@Shuey That is sweet! Thanks for sharing.
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@Shuey nice, I'm sure that you miss having room for that.
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@Reid-Cooper said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:
@Shuey nice, I'm sure that you miss having room for that.
I definitely do!
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@Shuey Oh to have space again.
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Network portion on the wall has been setup for a while now, but just installed the electric and ran a wire for the rack piece this weekend.
My rack is a full size rack, cut in half and welded back together with the help of a grinder, a welder, and a few drinks.
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@ChrisL said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:
Here's @Minion-Queen and I at the data center where the NTG Lab is running! Oh, Coly is there too, I guess.
IS that a window in the datacenter? tisk tisk.
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@Texkonc said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:
@ChrisL said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:
Here's @Minion-Queen and I at the data center where the NTG Lab is running! Oh, Coly is there too, I guess.
IS that a window in the datacenter? tisk tisk.
Not likely,.. maybe out in the office space maybe.
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@gjacobse said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:
@Texkonc said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:
@ChrisL said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:
Here's @Minion-Queen and I at the data center where the NTG Lab is running! Oh, Coly is there too, I guess.
IS that a window in the datacenter? tisk tisk.
Not likely,.. maybe out in the office space maybe.
If you look closely you see server racks, power euipment (maybe AC). So ya, that is a dataroom.
If it is just the internal office dataroom and not the colo, still......tisk tisk. -
@NashBrydges I am so jealous right now. if i even had a tenth of your storage space i'd be in heaven
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@fuznutz04 said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:
Network portion on the wall has been setup for a while now, but just installed the electric and ran a wire for the rack piece this weekend.
My rack is a full size rack, cut in half and welded back together with the help of a grinder, a welder, and a few drinks.
Can anyone recommend a rack that is similar to this that I can just buy instead of weld? lol. I need one for home.
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@travisdh1 said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:
@momurda said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:
Damn thats more impressive than what i have in production at work now
Well, most of it is equipment so old I wouldn't put in a production environment anymore. Still, great home/play setup.
Errr what does too old even mean? We have G2 HP Servers still chugging along here.
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@MilkySibb said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:
@travisdh1 said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:
@momurda said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:
Damn thats more impressive than what i have in production at work now
Well, most of it is equipment so old I wouldn't put in a production environment anymore. Still, great home/play setup.
Errr what does too old even mean? We have G2 HP Servers still chugging along here.
Chugging along and "worth the electric" are different things
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Don't these larger home labs send the electricity bill through the roof?
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@Tim_G Nah. I have a Dell PowerEdge R510 running 24/7 and I barely noticed an increase honestly. That's with a half rack with switches, ERX, UPS, etc.
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@wirestyle22 said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:
@Tim_G Nah. I have a Dell PowerEdge R510 running 24/7 and I barely noticed an increase honestly. That's with a half rack with switches, ERX, UPS, etc.
I'd notice the difference in running an extra 500w load constantly. If you've got a half-rack, a 500w load would be really low.
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@Tim_G I thought the same thing, but I didn't notice any increase at all. However, I only have a Dell PE R710, and some networking gear. With the R710, I have more than I will ever need for a physical home lab. The rest of my lab is "in the cloud".
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@MilkySibb The home lab has changed quite a bit since I posted this. I've replaced the 2 x R710s + MD1000 with 2 x R510 each with 12 x 6TB drives. Primary use is as a single VM fileserver. Two other Hyper-V hosts are now a R420 and R620 all running SSDs.
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@Tim_G According to my UPSs, I'm running my lab on about 1.2kw and yeah, I definitely notice the increase in power bill. It's costing me about $125 per month based on loca rates, delivery charges and taxes in.
