Best Home Lab Server Pics and gear in 2024

Description:
Meet my 7-year-old Dell gaming PC that has been a reliable home lab for both personal and development projects. While it’s been a solid companion, it’s definitely struggling to keep up with the latest tech and resource-heavy applications I need for my work.

Lab Use: I’m running a mix of VMs, Docker containers, and development environments on this machine, but the demands of modern software, cloud simulations, and high-performance workflows are pushing it to its limits. This setup just doesn’t have the horsepower needed for today’s workloads.

I’m definitely due for an upgrade, and that mini PC would be a game-changer for my projects! Looking forward to seeing everyone’s setups and hopefully stepping up my lab with some fresh hardware.

Hi Brandon,

I really enjoy your videos, thanks!

Here is my confined homelab, just a minipc running Proxmox inside my closet:

Specs:

• One single Topton N100 from aliexpress as a Proxmox host
  • 4x Intel N100 cores (single socket)
  • 4x Intel I226-V 2.5Gbps ethernet ports
  • 32GB DDR5
  • 1TB NVMe for storage

Basically running a single VM (OpenBSD) as a firewall and some LXC containers as DNS servers, S3 bucket (minio) and Wireguard tunnels.

Thanks for the giveaway!

All the best!!

Hi Brandon, 

I only have a very simple lab and using it for home, work and study purposes.

Lists of gears:

Fortigate 50E

Fortiswitch 108D

Synology DS1520+ and DS218+

Cisco SG250-24 and 350-10

Thanks and hopefully get picked for the giveaway. Cheers - Glen

This might be embarrassing but here goes

I have just started learning about the homelab space a few months ago and would love to move to a more reliable setup but it is fascinating what is out there and what can be done on old cheap hardware as well!! this is running proxmox and has a 4 x Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3470 CPU @ 3.20GHz (1 Socket) 16gb of ddr3 ram with a 1tb sata drive ssd love the content keep it coming!!

Description:
Meet my 7-year-old Dell gaming PC that has been a reliable home lab for both personal and development projects. While it’s been a solid companion, it’s definitely struggling to keep up with the latest tech and resource-heavy applications I need for my work.

Lab Use: I’m running a mix of VMs, Docker containers, and development environments on this machine, but the demands of modern software, cloud simulations, and high-performance workflows are pushing it to its limits. This setup just doesn’t have the horsepower needed for today’s workloads.

I’m definitely due for an upgrade, and that mini PC would be a game-changer for my projects! Looking forward to seeing everyone’s setups and hopefully stepping up my lab with some fresh hardware.