I think we need a different word for collecting a lot of old, underpowered computers and tinkering endlessly.
I understand the attraction of playing with old, cheap hardware. However, hardware has come so far that it’s easy to build a 16-core server with a lightly used AMD consumer chip and 64-128GB of RAM for under $1000. It will have more power and use far less energy than these clusters of old machines that I see people assembling.
> Noisy fans take the "home" out of the homelab;
Again, a completely unnecessary thing to suffer. If the goal is a homelab. It’s really easy to make a near-silent PC with modern parts and cooling that will outperform an entire rack of 20 year old PCs. Even 10G switches that are quiet or fan less are common.
I get it. It can be fun. But I don’t think this is homelabbing.
I understand the attraction of playing with old, cheap hardware. However, hardware has come so far that it’s easy to build a 16-core server with a lightly used AMD consumer chip and 64-128GB of RAM for under $1000. It will have more power and use far less energy than these clusters of old machines that I see people assembling.
> Noisy fans take the "home" out of the homelab;
Again, a completely unnecessary thing to suffer. If the goal is a homelab. It’s really easy to make a near-silent PC with modern parts and cooling that will outperform an entire rack of 20 year old PCs. Even 10G switches that are quiet or fan less are common.
I get it. It can be fun. But I don’t think this is homelabbing.