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πŸ“‘ r/homelab by r/homelab Β· Apr 4, 2026

Don't be like me... 2 14TB drives that I bought less than a year ago are dying, and I'm pretty sure it's my fault.

I fucked up. I bought these drives recertified in July of last year from a reputable seller for about $230AUD each, to store my "Linux ISOs" and "DVD rips". They worked perfectly, …

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πŸ“‘ r/homelab by r/homelab Β· Apr 2, 2026

I'm not a religious man, but saints do exist! (CL seller gifted me a top of the line server circa ~2016)

tl;dr What would you do with it? 2x Xeon E5-2699A v4 (88 threads) and 16x32GB 2Rx4 ECC DDR4-2400 (512GB total) on a X10DAi mobo 16x 800GB SAS3 SSDs (~12TB) over an Areca ARC188…

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πŸ“‘ r/homelab by r/homelab Β· Apr 1, 2026

Average homelab runs 23 services. 3 get used per week. The more you run, the fewer you touch. Science confirmed it.

312 setups tracked for 6 months. The more services someone ran, the fewer any individual service got used. Most common never-touched: a Minecraft server for a child who "might wan…

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