I’m in the process of wiring a home before moving in and getting excited about running 10g from my server to the computer. Then I see 25g gear isn’t that much more expensive so I might was well run at least one fiber line. But what kind of three node ceph monster will it take to make use of any of this bandwidth (plus run all my Proxmox VMs and LXCs in HA) and how much heat will I have to deal with. What’s your experience with high speed homelab NAS builds and the electric bill shock that comes later? Epyc 7002 series looks perfect but seems to idle high.

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    7 months ago

    125W (Less than $15/month) or so for

    • Ryzen 9 3900X
    • 64GB RAM
    • 2x4TB NVMe (ZFS Mirror)
    • 5x14TB HDD (ZFS RAID-Z2)
    • 2.5GBe Network Card
    • 5-port 2.5GBe Network Switch
    • 5-port 1GBe POE Network Switch w/ one Reolink Camera attached

    I generally leave powerManagement.cpuFreqGovernor = "powersave" in my Nix config as well, which saves about 40W ($4/mo or so) for my typical load as best as I can tell, and I disable it if I’m doing bulk data processing on a time crunch.