That is a very stylish rack. Nice setup overall.
Edit: ouch, nice and pricey.
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Needs a painting or a rug to really pull the room together.
A painting of a rug would be perfect
I would say your music could benefit a lot from a rug that diffuses some sound waves.
(Also a short stand for speakers)
Nice job on cables though!
what's with all these speaker jokes?
Homelab being finished? That's heresy!
A homelab is never finished.
Oh, it's never finished. There is always just one more thing.
Also specs?
Top (my desktop)
- AMD Ryzen 5 8500G (no dGPU, because I do 90% of my work in the terminal)
- 1 TB NVME
- 32 GB DDR5
- NixOS
Bottom (server)
- AMD Ryzen 5 5600G
- 8 GB RAM DDR4
- in total 4 TB NVME
- NixOS
(nvme and noctua only)
Nice and clean. Amazing cable management.
I have to ask, why the giant 4u cases if you have such a minimal set up inside (no dgpu, 4 nvme drives, no hdds)? Did you get a smoking deal on them (I got one that looks to be the same for $50 😎), or just to future proof in case you want to throw 40 hdds in them some day?
It's nice not to have to fit everything into 1U or 2U enclosures, and yes, also a bit of future-proofing.
Plus, space for big Noctuas to minimize noise? (That the way I went.)
Yes
That’s fair. Must be nice and cool in there for all your components haha.
Finished...for now.
Where subwoofers
That’s a legitimately beautiful setup.
The cable sleeve joining the cables from the keyboard and mouse and then going around the monitor stand looks soo smooth.
A second monitor is what's missing.
'if you go fuck a dude and he has 2 monitor's and a light up keyboard, just go home'
Luckily I have 3!
Add a plant
You forgot to plug everything in.
Isn't that way too noisy right next to your work desk? Especially if you do audio recordings there?
Looks amazing! Those speakers would sound 10x better if they were closer to ear-level. It made a big difference in my setup.
Get some angled wedges!
May I ask. What is it you do on these systems, as in why do you need something like this?
To securely, privately, rapidly download and store a variety of of Linux distributions. Almost all homelab is about downloading and storing Linux distributions.
Out of curiosity to think about what to do with my life, what do you do for a living? Software engineer?
I am currently completing my bachelor's degree in computer science. Once this is finished, I will begin a master's program. I assume this information is not really helpful to you, sorry.
I guess you migrated to homeserver then.
What's in there?
Clearly you don't data hoard. Us Data hoarders are never finished.
I data hoard and my storage fits in one of those Rosewill chassis. They can fit a lot of drives.
Those speakers look nice. If I weren't addicted to having 3 monitors I'd aim for something like this
Very nice and clean!
how many watts does it chug on average? Sweet setup.
It's not complete until there is a cat napping on the keyboard.
Where did you get that table top for the rack? Is that a DIY?
Monitor/speaker-arms maybe?
How loud is it?
Considering the hardware listed in this thread: likely nearly inaudible.
Well, let's put it this way: I sleep in the same room :)
I take it you need whitenoise to sleep then
That is until you run out of space to store linux iso's.
Missing anime posters or, alternatively, random and poorly painted landscape art.
Get those speakers decoupled from the table and pointing at your ear holes!
Those are called headphones
what desk is that, and would you recommend it?