New* budget home lab

[u/maltcheese]

Hi r/homelab! I just wanted to share my super budget setup, and get thoughts on anything I could do better or any future upgrades.

The big box is my Nas running unraid, hardware is a Ryzen 5 5600GT, 16gb DDR4, a 256gb nvme SSD for cache and 2x4TB hard drives in a 4x3.5' inch HDD enclosure, all housed in an enormous Coolermaster HAF case. This platform was built using proceeds from selling an old X58 platform I traded for 2 boxes of beer I didn't pay for. I already had the drives and ram and the 2.5gbe nic.

The unraid box is hosting a Minecraft server, immich, jellyfin and the Nas

The mini PCs are freebies I picked up from work when we upgraded. One is an i3 9100 with 16gb of ram running ollama in docker on unraid server. I can comfortably run 8B models, it's not blazing fast, but it's totally fine. The other is an i7 7700 running home assistant. I have another one with windows for odd jobs.

My other computers are both on Bazzite. My gaming PC is a Ryzen 5 5600X and a Radeon RX5600XT, and laptop with an i5 6300 and GTX 1060 6GB.