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I have been using proxmox for years. Before that I ran stuff like virtualbox headless, vmware ESX/ESXi, etc. I have never ran a synology though.

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>When I first started using a Synology NAS all those years ago, it was a place to store image files after creating them for work and media files for Plex use. It was never intended to be a home lab, but that's what it morphed into over the years until it tried to run too many things at once and failed at all of them. Building my own server was always part of my road map for home lab experimentation, and it's time. Now the NAS will do what it's supposed to do, store archival files, and the new server will handle the heavy lifting. The only thing slightly surprising to me is that it took so long to realize that my needs had changed and something had to be done about it.

I have been using proxmox for years. Before that I ran stuff like virtualbox headless, vmware ESX/ESXi, etc. I have never ran a synology though. Archive: https://archive.today/bWuZF From the post: >>When I first started using a Synology NAS all those years ago, it was a place to store image files after creating them for work and media files for Plex use. It was never intended to be a home lab, but that's what it morphed into over the years until it tried to run too many things at once and failed at all of them. Building my own server was always part of my road map for home lab experimentation, and it's time. Now the NAS will do what it's supposed to do, store archival files, and the new server will handle the heavy lifting. The only thing slightly surprising to me is that it took so long to realize that my needs had changed and something had to be done about it.
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Using a thread ripper for a NAS is kinda over kill.

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Yeah, they clearly intend to do PCI passthrough for AI workloads though. Otherwise, why have a $500 graphics card? Plus, its not just for NAS, proxmox is a full virtual environment "enterprise" level. You can do a lot with it.

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When I had to spin up multiple machines for workloads, dev and testing in the enterprise virtualization made sense, all done from your desk. But with a home, they make the gear just big enough to not be easy to hide so you need a closet for the shit. I’d put a 15” flat panel in there and just work there for hardware spin ups.

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I have a 3 node proxmox cluster that uses a TrueNAS server as the backend storage (the nodes have local storage if I have to take down the TrueNAS server though). It lets all of my stuff be HA since I have Home Automation, local DNS, Local PiHole, etc...

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Not if you’re running kiked up data stealing dockers and other virtual boxes. Which is what most do. But to me it’s a single point of failure.

Personally I’d rather run real hardware, virtualization nothing. I use some old cheap as fuck Lenovo i5’s and i7’s tiny form factor, then run Linux on them and just install what I want, group like services, keep about 50% headroom in everything so if one shits the bed I can offload, but it’s easier to just throw another $50 box at it. I have a pile of them, but them in lots on gay bay, and throw ram and ssd at them. Redundant disk? Fuck no waste of time. Just backup to the nas (which is a simple fucking disk store) and restore on another box if needed.

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wAAAAAAaaaahH, i TRIED to USE MY network attached storage AS A general purpose computer AND IT DIDN'T WORK