Hello friends, I am slowly getting into selfhosting and trying to convert my old Lenovo X230 laptop into a homeserver that I will use for backups, cloud storage and a few services for my friends.

What’s is your setup? What are you doing with it or what are you planning to do with it?

P.S.: The laptop screen is usually turned off of course :)

  • Transient Punk@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    My picture won’t load, but I bought an ASRock motherboard with IPMI and onboard video so I could use my old desktop CPU as my homelab.

    It now has my old 3800x, 64gb of RAM, a couple of sata SSDs, and a 40tb HDD array. I really want to buy a whole new setup and redo things in a more sensible way.

    Currently I am using Ubuntu server LTS as the host OS. It’s running KVM, and all my services are virtualized there, including a virtualized NAS.

    Ideally, I would like to build a new NAS on top of TrueNAS Scale, then have a separate machine as a virtualization host