FOSS geek, privacy advocate, digital archivist, mental illness advocate, gamer

Homelab

Desktop / Gaming

Component Description
Machine System76 Thelio Major (r4)
CPU AMD Ryzen 7 7700X (8 cores, 16 threads) @ 5.6 GHz
GPU NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 (discrete), 24 GB with 16384 CUDA Cores
RAM 64 GB Dual Channel DDR5 (4x16 GB), 4800 MHz
HDD 0 1 TB PCIe Gen4, Read: 7000 MB/s, Write: 5100 MB/s
HDD 1 2 TB PCIe Gen4, Read: 7000 MB/s, Write: 5100 MB/s
Networking 2.5 GB/s Ethernet, Built-in Intel WiFi 6E + Bluetooth 5.3
OS CachyOS with GNOME

Laptop

Component Description
Machine Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon (10th gen)
CPU 12th Gen Intel Core i7-1260Pz (8 cores, 16 threads) @ 4.70 GHz
GPU Intel Iris Xe Graphics @ 1.40 GHz (integrated)
RAM 16 GB LPDDR5 6000 MHz
HDD 476.9 GB NVMe
Networking Built-in Intel WiFi 6E + Bluetooth 5.3
OS CachyOS with GNOME

NAS

Component Description
Machine System76 Meerkat (meer9)
CPU Intel Core Ultra 7 155H, (16 cores, 22 threads) @ 4.8 GHz
GPU Intel Arc Graphics @ 2.25 GHz (integrated)
RAM 64 GB Dual Channel DDR5 5600 MHz
HDD 500 GB M.2 PCIe Gen4 NVMe
Networking 2.5 GB/s Ethernet, Built-in Intel WiFi 6E + Bluetooth 5.3
OS Debian 13

Notes

In addition to the internal hard drive, I have a NAS enclosure that contains 8x22 TB Enterprise HDDs. The NAS enclosure I use is Syba 8-Bay, Hot Swappable 2.5” 3.5” SATA Non RAID External USB 3.0 Enclosure.

I use the NAS for digital archiving. It runs the following services:

  • ArchiveBox
  • Jellyfin
  • qbittorrent-protonvpn-docker container
  • tailscale serve to serve my digital archive collection on the public internet through Tailscale.

For all the machines from which I want to backup data, each machine runs borgmatic to backup data to borgbackup repositories located on the NAS.

The 8x22 TB Enterprise HDDs comprise a 176 TB ZFS pool. I have separate ZFS datasets for various categories of data.

Auxiliary NAS

Component Description
Machine Orange Pi 5+
CPU RK3588 (8 cores) @ 2.40 GHz: A76 (4 cores), A55 (4 cores)
GPU ARM Mali-G610
RAM 16 GB LPDDR4
HDD 256 GB eMMC module
Networking 2xPCIe 2.5 GB LAN (RTL8125BG)
OS Armbian

Notes

This machine serves as an auxiliary NAS and homelab monitoring station. A 5 TB external HDD is attached to it via USB 3.0, which consists of a ZFS pool for replicating critical datasets from my primary NAS.

Runs the following services:

  • Docker
  • Grafana
  • Prometheus
  • qBittorrent Prometheus exporter
  • Tapo TP-Link P110 Prometheus exporter

Phone

Component Description
Machine Motorola Edge 2025
CPU Octa-core (4x2.6 GHz Cortex-A78 4x2.0 GHz Cortex-A55)
GPU Mali-G615 MC2
RAM 8 GB
HDD 256 GB
Networking GSM / HSPA / LTE / 5G
OS stock Android 15 (for now, until a ROM for Murena /e/OS becomes available)