Best Home Lab Server Pics and gear in 2024

Hi Brandon,

I'm a long-time follower of your channel, I have a fairly decent setup here and almost pushing the limits of my current core i3 NUC mini PC so an upgrade/replacement is very well overdue. I use unifi products for my network and they've been rock-solid for the last 2 yrs. I've not yet been able to play with proxmox, because I don't have capable hardware to do that; so for now all my work-loads are dockerized and have run quite well and efficiently over the years, and have allowed for trouble-free upgrades and additions to my stack.

I run Plex, traefik, authentik, lldap, homeassistant, tailscale, cloudflared among others shown in attached screenshots. I would really love to win the Beelink mini PC. 

Thanks

Network:

1x Unifi UDM Pro: 4TB HDD for Protect, with 4 VLANs Including iOT and extensive firewall rules

2x Unifi 24 Port PoE Switch

1x Unifi 8 Port 150W PoE Switch

1x Unifi Flex Switch

4x Unifi Flex-Mini Switches

2x Unifi AP 6 Pro

1x Unfi Beacon HD

1x Unifi 6 Lite

3x Unifi G3 Flex Cameras

2x Unifi G3 Instant Cameras

1x Unifi G4 Bullet Camera

Barracuda WF-210:

Runs pfSense, with 4GB RAM, 2x 32GB SATA SSDs in RAID1, acts as a content filter for my kids LAN using pfBlockerNG, and also runs tailscale package to let me connect from home to multiple remote subnets including an azure vm. Setup static routes on the UDMP to route specific traffic out through the tailscale node to aforementioned external/remote tailscale subnets.

Datto -1000 Mini PC

AMD GX-415GA @ 1.50 GHz 1 Processor, 4 Cores

8GB RAM

256GB SATA SSD

Runs Debian 12, and acts as a Docker Host with the following containers (screenshot)

Intel® NUC Kit NUC7i3BNH:

Intel® Core™ i3-7100U Processor (3M Cache, 2.40 GHz)

512GB NVME SSD

1.92TB SATA Enterprise SSD (for Plex Media Storage)

16GB RAM

Runs Debian 12, and acts as a Docker Host and currently has 51 active containers running (some of which are captured in the screenshots)

Simple as it can be

• Asus AX92 Router/switch
• APC UPS
• Miniforum UM790 Pro (AMD 9 7940HS, 32GB RAM)is running Proxmox VE

Hi Brando,  here is my current homelab setup:

• Unifi Dream Router
• Synology DS1019+ 32TB
• Western Digital External 14TB HD for Synology Backup
• APC UPS

• Proxmox Hosts:
• 2x ASRock DESKMINI A300W AMD 64GB Ram Each

Thank you for all the content you put out.

I don't have the biggest or best home server rack, but it fits most of my needs.

Equipment

UDM Pro
16 and 24 port POE switches
UNIFI Aggregation switch
Unifi 10 GB 16 port 
Synology DS1815+ and DS1621+ and a Ugreen DXG6400 Pro
MS-01 Proxmox 
CyberPower UPS

 Thanks for doing the Mini PC Giveway

Main storage:

Synology DS716+II with 2GB RAM and 2x2TB WD Red Drive. It's been running 24x7 for about 8 years now and still going strong with no issue.

Homelab:

Recent addition for getting into homelabs

GMKtec NucBox G3 with Intel N100 CPU, 8GB RAM and 256GB NVME storage.

Running Debian 12 with docker containers: WireGuard, Portainer, Heimdall, Plex, Filebrowser, Code-server, aria2, Chromium, Glances and Scrutiny. Just getting started and exploring more stuff to host.