Hi guys,

Just picked myself up an EliteDesk 800 G6 SFF:

Current specs:

  • CPU: i5-10500
  • RAM: 8 GB
  • NVMe SSD: 256 GB

My plan is to beef this up with:

  • RAM: Crucial Pro DDR4 RAM 64GB Kit (2x32GB) 3200MHz

  • HDD: 4TB ironwolf NAS drives * 2

  • NVME SSD: Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1 TB PCIe NVMe M.2

How I’m planning my setup:

The existing 256 GB NVMe will host Proxmox.

The new 1 TB NVMe will be for VM’s & LXC’s

The 4TB ironwolf NAS drives will be configured in a mirror and will be used as a NAS (Best way to do this?) as well as for bulk data from my services, like recordings from Frigate.

Services:

  • Home Assistant (Currently running on a pi4)

  • Frigate (Currently running on a pi4)

  • Pi hole (Maybe, already running on an OG pi)

  • Next cloud (Calendar, photos)

  • TailsScale

  • Vaultwarden

  • Windows 11

My follow on projects will be:

Setup PBS to back up my Host(proxmox-backup-client), VMS & LXC’s

I have a Raspberry Pi 4 that I was thinking to use for PBS in the short term, but will eventually move it to something like an n100 mini PC.

I will also setup a second NAS(TrueNAS most likely, bare metal) to back up the 4TB ironwolf NAS.

This is my first proper homeLab, having mostly tinkered with Raspberry Pi’s and Arduino’s up to this point, any advice on my setup would be really appreciated.

  • Ryan@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    i have the same hardware (24gb ram) and it works a treat. I run quite a number of services on it. Only pihole i moved to a dedicated raspi. that way i don’t need to restart thw dns when i restart the other server.

    • pirate-dad@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      Yeah I might leave the pi-hole as is, really was just thinking to move it for backup convenience, but it’s probably more of a headache (for the reason you mentioned) than it’s worth.

      It’s been running on a first edition raspberry pi for years without a hiccup.

  • archomrade [he/him]@midwest.socialEnglish
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    21 hours ago

    I’m curious what you’re doing with frigate/ how you’re doing it without a graphics card?

    I’ve been using it for object detection, but i had to install it on my workhorse because my server doesn’t have a graphics card. I suppose it doesn’t need one if you’re not doing ml processing, but I’m still curious

    • pirate-dad@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      Frigate is currently running on a raspberry pi 4 with a USB coral tpu, it runs great, I only have 2 cameras currently though…

      If the raspberry pi can handle it, I’ve no doubt this server will be more than capable.

    • non_burglar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      8 hours ago

      It’s well worth it to get a $50 coral tpu for object detection. Fast inference speed and nearly zero CPU usage.

      • archomrade [he/him]@midwest.socialEnglish
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        6 hours ago

        I thought about it, but I have a couple other services that could benefit from getting dedicated gpu anyway. Might as well just save for a proper PCIE card.

      • Daughter3546@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        8 hours ago

        I have a similar setup and it’s been a huge pain when I when I have to do the OS updates.

        The Coral needs a dkms module, but the sources and Google’s own documentation for it are out of date. I would highly recommend using the iGPU for inference.

  • SpikesOtherDog@ani.socialEnglish
    2·
    24 hours ago

    Hardware wise, are the drives SATA? I couldn’t get an answer at a glance. If you are running them mirrored, you can back off on the cost.

    The three drives may ramp up the fan on that. Check to see if there are additional fan headers and add some intake fans.

    • pirate-dad@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      Yes the mirrored drives will be SATA, what do you mean by back off on the cost though?

      I read somewhere on a reddit post that someone added an extra fan, I think it might have been a G4, but I think the same mod would be applicable for a G6, I’ll definitely keep it in mind, thanks.