Homelab

July 30, 2020

This is a page where I maintain the status of the computers in my “Homelab” (basically the tech in our house).

Ryan (Me)

A wooden computer desk setup, with a monitor on a riser shelf, a macbook stand, and a chair — My Home Office

A wooden computer desk with wooden monitor shelf. — My Desk

A wide angle shot from the entrance of a home office, with a wooden desk in the center, wood+pipe shelf behind it, and cozy rug and armchair setup in the front. — Entrance to my home office

Linux Computers

The inside of a desktop tower, with noctua fans and a GPU visible — My workstation, Charmeleon

- Charmeleon (Linux Workstation/VM Host/Gaming Computer)

Ryzen 5 2600 [3.4 GHz (3.9GHz Turbo), 6 Cores, 12 Threads)
MSI B450 Tomahawk Motherboard
32 GB (2x16GB) DDR4-3200 Mhz RAM
Sapphire Radeon Pulse RX 580 8GB GPU
500 GB Samsung 970 EVO NVME SSD
500 GB Samsung 850 EVO SATA SSD
EVGA SuperNOVA G4 650w 80+ Gold, fully modular PSU
Fractal Design Meshify C Dark TG ATX Mid Tower Case
2 x Noctua NF-A14 PWM 140mm Fans
1 x Noctua NF-F12 PWM 120mm Fan
Fedora 32 (KDE Plasma)
*Connected to Periphery devices

- Kadabra (Linux Laptop)

T470 Thinkpad
Intel i5-7200u [2.5 GHz (3.1 GHz Turbo), 2 Cores, 4 Threads]
16 GB RAM
250 GB Samsung EVO SSD
14" 1920x1080 IPS Display
Fedora Silverblue 32
*Can Connect to Periphery devices via Thunderbolt 3 Dongle

Interface Devices

- Venusaur (Mac)

2019 16" Macbook Pro
Intel i7-9750H (2.6 GHz (4.5 GHz Turbo), 6 Cores, 12 Threads)
16 GB DDR4 2666 MHz RAM
512 GB SSD
Radeon Pro 5300M GPU
16" 3072x1920 500 nit IPS "Retina" Display
macOS Catalina
*Can Connect to Periphery devices via Thunderbolt 3 Dongle

- Ivysaur (Tablet)

10.5" iPad Pro
64 GB Storage
* Can be used as a secondary display for Venusaur

- Bulbasaur (Phone)

iPhone 11
64 GB Storage

Periphery Devices

Dell 27" 2560x1440 IPS Monitor (Dell u2717d)
Happy Hacking Keyboard Pro2
Audioengine A2+ Speakers & Stands
Audio Technica M50x Headphones
Blue Yeti Microphone - Backout Edition
Logitech HD Pro Webcam c920 Widescreen

Rebecca (Wife)

A simple small computer desk, with a docked laptop and a wall mounted monitor — Rebecca's Desk (yes, that is my laptop in the dock)

Even though this is my wife’s gear… I’m in charge of managing it all. So I decided to add it here.

- Weepinbell

Thinkpad T450s
Intel i5-5300u [2.3 GHz (2.90 GHz Turbo), 2 Cores, 4 Threads]
12 GB RAM
256 GB SSD
14" 1600x900 LED Display
6-Cell Battery
CloudReady (a chromiumos spin)

- Bellsprout

Macbook Air (2014)
Intel i5 (1.4 GHz (2.7 GHz Turbo), 3M Cache, 2 Cores, 2 Threads) ?
4 GB RAM
128 GB PCIe Flash HD
13.3” 1440x900 LED Display
2.96 Lbs and ~0.7” thick
Mac OS Catalina

- Periphery

Thinkpad Ultra Dock 40A2 (to connect to periphery devices below)
LG 32QK500W, 32" 2560x1440 IPS Monitor
Apple Air Pod Pros
Bose AE2 Headphones

Servers & Networking

- Ninetales (VM Host / Home Server)

HP Micro Server Gen 10
AMD Opteron X3421 APU (4) @ 2.100GHz
8 GB ECC RAM
250 GB Samsung EVO SSD (OS + LVM Virtual Disk Drive)
2 x 1TB WD 7200 RPM HDD (ZFS Mirror, for Backups) (Hotswap)
2 x 3TB TOSHIBA 7200 RPM HDD (ZFS Mirror, for Storage) (Hotswap)
Ubuntu Server 18.04

- Networking

Netgear Orbi RBK50 Router (In Bedroom)
Netgear Orbi RBK50 Satellite (In Office)

- UPS

CyberPower 1500VA/900W UPS

- Living Room “TV”

LG UD4379-b, 43" IPS UHD (3840x2160px) Monitor
4k Fire TV Stick
Nintendo Switch

Digital Ocean Droplets

Pidgey (Nextcloud/Test Cloud Server)

Digital Ocean KVM Droplet 1 Core 1 GB RAM 20 GB SSD Ubuntu 16.04 OS