Home Lab CHALLENGE ft. Raid Owl - Part 1

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Contest Rules:

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Music (in order):
"Town Groove" - Me
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Curious About the equipment I use to make my videos?
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:42 Sponsor: UGreen
1:53 Contest Rules
3:10 Wheel Spin 1
5:45 Day 1
9:23 Day 3
12:08 Day 4
17:08 Wheel Spin 2
22:12 Day 6 & 7
22:57 Day 8
23:55 Day 11

[mlvlle]

This has a beautiful and nostalgic scrapyard wars vibe but its about homelabs instead of Gaming PCs. I love it, please make it a series.

[InboundG]

It’s the scrapyard wars of home labing 😂

[Yaktany]

110% would choose the one week crunch ^^"
it's hard to build something if not all rules are known and some are so alternating the system.
Like the 75W it made the whole 1st week effort "worthless" for the final system.
So like you did week 1-3 flipping stuff to increase the budget and week 4 for the final system :D

[danielwhitney]

This reminds me a lot of scrap yard wars. Good job!

[lucaspagote]

Please, make this a recurring thing, I'd love to see one of these at least once every 4 months

[ChristopherBletzinger]

I got SO excited when you showed that WD NAS listing. That was what I got for my first homelab experiments a year ago and I was looking forward to watching you go through the same struggles that I did! WOULD NOT RECOMMEND

[airman_uk]

In bios the CPU actually runs at full clock speed that's why it draws more power than in proxmox

[AmericanBeanz_]

Your Channel is seriously underrated, You produce very professional, fun and engaging content. Would love to see more challenges like this in the future, as a fellow tinkerer I love the junkyard aspect to this.

[fierce]

The pain for both guys on Spin #2 was absolutely hilarious! Loving the first part of this, and looking forward to Part 2

[ElementalITcc]

Love this series. Very interested to see what you come up with.

[KrzysztofLetki]

Scrapyard wars but for homelab junkies, I'm in ❤

[JeffGeerling]

Oh no you two parted it! Now I can't know until the next video is out, can't wait 😅

[boostaddict_]

I got a TP-Link Archer AX10 for $15 yesterday. It's the new access point for my $30 HP mini pc OPNsense router. Gigabit ethernet, 1.5Gb Wifi 6. Have another HP mini pc with better specs running Truenas Scale and Plex, that was $60. Running a D-Link 5 port switch for now, DIY rack made of lego technic since I have a bunch. I think I'm doing pretty well on the budget front lol. Wouldn't fit your rules but it's been serving me extremely well.

[hachikiina]

i really like this concept. sucks that you got the 75w penalty! may the best second hand hardware juggler win

[sedrosken]

I was running a modded DX4000 myself as my combination NAS/home server up until about 6 months ago when I finally got the spare parts together to build something much beefier and more capable of running as a general-purpose virtualization host. The CPU and relative lack of RAM really do hold it back, but as an option that I got for literally free (albeit with 2TB less storage than you were looking at) it was not a bad deal. Having to solder the leads for the TTL serial connection was annoying, and mine had a bug with the UEFI where it would keep trying to boot a copy of Windows that didn't exist, so I had to hack mine with an autoexec.nsh dropped in the EFI system partition for when it'd inevitably drop to the UEFI shell so it could then chainload GRUB.

[darkpalidin]

This is an awesome series. Definitely want to see more. I agree with some of the other comments saying to have a set of rules to start, then different ones to spin after that initial week. Maybe spin twice for that first setup, and one spin per week after?

[NicolasAgostini-Nico]

Cool video. Learned a lot of things.
Quick tip: turn your 270° monitor to 90° instead (flip it around). In my experience we have better contrast when looking a monitor from up or head on, instead of from the bottom like your current setup.

Keep pushing awesome content like this one.

[AdroSlice]

I love the wheel idea, but I really think the spins should be frontloaded, and it should be possible to win without completing these objectives. They should be seen as bonus targets, not requirements.

[Hazmatguy]

So glad worlds are colliding, you always put out some solid DIY stuff that is genuinely entertaining. Hope your channel keeps growing!

[terrorpup]

Damn, I wish I could have gotten into it. I do a lot of e-recycle, I love that my half rack of gear is 100% recycle. My second homelas is 90% SBC and that should make the under 75W. I am running a good bit.

Love to see this over the next couple of the weeks.