01 / Infrastructure · Unraid

THE
HOMELAB.

Enterprise hardware. Home-sized ambitions.

A Dell PowerEdge, an Unraid array, enough containers to keep me entertained, and a list of things that still need fixing.

Under the hood ↓Storage

Actual Dell and Ubiquiti hardware in my homelab rack

The rack / my hardware

01 / Under the hood

THE HARDWARE.

Chassis

PowerEdge
R740xd

Dell rackmount server

Processors

2 × Xeon
Gold 6134

16 physical cores / 32 threads · 3.2 GHz base

Memory

128 GiB

DDR4 ECC · 126 GiB available to Unraid

Networking

10 GbE

Active-backup bond · Additional 1 GbE interfaces

02 / The array

46 TERABYTES.

Unraid manages the storage, with a separate parity disk and SSD cache.

Reported array capacity

45.9 TB

Five data disks: four 10 TB drives and one 6 TB drive. The 10 TB parity disk is separate from the data capacity.

10 TBDedicated parity

800 GBSSD cache pool

DATA DRIVES

Disk 110 TB

Disk 210 TB

Disk 310 TB

Disk 410 TB

Disk 56 TB

The bars show relative drive capacity, not utilization. Parity protects against a drive failure; it isn't a backup.

03 / What runs here

THE WORKLOADS.

01 / WORKLOAD

Media

Plex and Emby, with Sonarr, Radarr and Seerr helping organize the library.

02 / WORKLOAD

Monitoring

Prometheus, Grafana, cAdvisor and Node Exporter keep tabs on the host and containers.

03 / WORKLOAD

Networking

NGINX Proxy Manager handles reverse-proxy routing. I use Ubiquiti networking alongside the server.

04 / WORKLOAD

Development

MotoGarage runs in its own Ubuntu VM. IRON_GATE is another project living in the lab.

04 / How I use it

CONTAINERS & VMs.

Unraid host

Docker

The media stack, monitoring tools, reverse proxy, and other self-hosted services run as containers. Some monitoring components are grouped in a Docker Compose stack.

Media · Monitoring · Network

Ubuntu virtual machine

MotoGarage

My motorcycle maintenance app runs in a separate Ubuntu VM allocated four virtual CPUs and 4 GiB of RAM. That keeps application development separate from the host's other workloads.

FastAPI · PostgreSQL · Web frontend

05 / Around the rack