the white box depicted is my home server, built from used parts except the 3x4TB WD Red HDDs inside. Very proud to see what this little mATX box can do, with only 16gigs of ram!
running truenas scale and a lot of k3s pods, it works like a charm 🫡
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hahah, here's the rest of us stacking random bits of reclaimed hardware in a cupboard....
A few of these servers were stacked on top of each other (and a monitor box to get the stack off the ground) in a basement for several years, it's a journey.
yeah. i tr5ied to neaten it up when we changed around some furntinure, but none of mine is rack mount