The hardware and gear that powers my homelab and content creation
The backbone of my homelab setup
Dual Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (20 cores/40 threads total) • 128GB DDR3 ECC RAM • 4x 1TB SSD in RAID10 • Dual 750W PSU • iDRAC7 Enterprise
Running: Proxmox VE 8.x • 20+ VMs • Primary hypervisor node
Dual Intel Xeon E5-2680 (16 cores/32 threads total) • 96GB DDR3 ECC RAM • 3x 500GB SSD • Dual 750W PSU • iDRAC7 Enterprise
Running: Proxmox VE 8.x • Cluster node for HA • Development workloads
AMD Ryzen 5 5600 • 64GB DDR4 ECC RAM • 6x 8TB HDD + 2x 500GB NVMe • 650W PSU
Running: TrueNAS SCALE • ZFS with RAIDZ2 • NFS/SMB shares • 40TB usable
Enterprise-grade network equipment
Integrated Services Router • 4GB RAM • 8GB Flash • Dual Gigabit WAN • 3x GE/SFP LAN • Security License
Role: Primary router • Inter-VLAN routing • Firewall • VPN endpoint
48-Port Managed Switch • Layer 3 capabilities • 10Gb uplinks • PoE+ support • Stackable
Role: Core switch • VLAN trunking • PoE for APs • STP root bridge
Dual-band WiFi 5 • 802.11ac Wave 2 • PoE powered • Seamless roaming
Role: Wireless access points • Multiple SSIDs per VLAN • Guest network
5-Port Gigabit router • Hardware offloading • VLAN support
Role: Backup/failover router • Lab network segmentation
Infrastructure support and accessories
What's next for the homelab
Upgrade backbone to 10 Gigabit Ethernet with SFP+ switches and NICs for improved storage and VM migration performance
Adding enterprise SAS drives and expanding TrueNAS capacity to 80TB+ for media and backups
Building a 5-node Raspberry Pi or mini-PC cluster dedicated to Kubernetes learning and testing