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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Internet:

  • 1G fiber

Router:

  • N100 with dual 2.5G nics

Lab:

  • 3x N100 mini PCs as k8s control plane+ceph mon/mds/mgr
  • 4x Aoostar R7 "NAS" systems (5700u/32G ram/20T rust/2T sata SSD/4T nvme) as ceph OSDs/k8s workers

Network:

  • Hodge podge of switches I shouldn't trust nearly as much as I do
  • 3x 8 port 2.5G switches (1 with poe for APs)
  • 1x 24 port 1G switch
  • 2x omada APs

Software:

  • All the standard stuff for media archival purposes
  • Ceph for storage (using some manual tiering in cephfs)
  • K8s for container orchestration (deployed via k0sctl)
  • A handful of cloud-hypervisor VMs
  • Most of the lab managed by some tooling I've written in go
  • Alpine Linux for everything

All under 120w power usage

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How are you finding the AooStar R7? I have had my eye on it for a while but not much talk about it outside of YouTube reviews

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

They've been rock solid so far. Even through the initial sync from my old file server (pretty intensive network and disk usage for about 5 days straight). I've only been running them for about 3 months so far though, so time will tell. They are like most mini pc manufacturers with funny names though. I doubt I'll ever get any sort of bios/uefi update