How it started:
I bought a MiniPC (Blackview MP-80) to run Home Assistant and some lights etc. to go with it.
It's now exactly one year later this is what my setup looks like now:
BMAX B2 Pro --> Home Assistant OS
Blackview MP-80 --> Proxmox --> Nextcloud-AIO & Immich
ODROID H4+ --> Proxmox --> TrueNAS
How it's going:
With the heatwave in Europe I've now installed cooling to keep my HDD's from heating up.
I know it's Janky as hell, but I love it. The plan going forward is to buy a 3D Printer so that I can 3D Print a custom 10" rack, and I'll build my own cooling and temperature monitoring system with ESP32 and create a dashboard for it in Home Assistant and sorting out networking.
It's a work in progress, having a lot of fun learning and adding new things.
@Ek-Hou-Van-Braai Why virtualise TrueNAS? IMO that's only really needed for single machine setups.
I was 50/50 between running it bare metal or in Proxmox, I decided to go with Proxmox as I felt it gave me some flexibility with also running other things on there if I really want and it makes backups of it easy (aka. I just do a proxmox backup, the same way I do all my services)
Yes, same - in cases of one server. Proxmox is just too nice for lazy ppl like me.
When you need a separate, dedicated NAS, then it's bears to the metals ofc.