My small homelab that’s been running for about 2 years now and is in absolute dire need of an upgrade/overhaul

Bottom left is my Dell Precision T5810 that’s actually my main desktop PC, some sort of 12 core Xeon, 32gb RAM and a few SSD’s for storage, nothing fancy, I think the GPU is a GTX 970 but I don’t game on it so that’s a bit overkill

Bottom right is a custom built pc that I built circa 2013 and was my main desktop pc until a couple years ago when it swapped to NAS / Server duties, running Plex server (on Windows 11 currently 😅) i7 3770, 16gb RAM, 2 2tb Seagate Drives for my Plex library, 2 1tb WD laptop drives in a RAID 1 for anything I care a little more about like my photo library (I’m aware this isn’t great, it will be getting improved drastically soon) and a 750gb laptop drive as a “scratch disk” this has got some Plex stuff on it now though and in total I have about 30gb free across all the drives (excluding the boot SSD) 

The Sangoma PBX is running Home Assistant OS, honestly no idea on the specs it’s been so long since I checked but I think it’s a quad core atom with 4gb RAM and a 128gb SATA SSD

The Dell Optiplex 7010 is running Debian and AMP game server mostly as a Minecraft server, again i7 3770 with 16gb and a 128gb boot SSD

The Dell Precision T1650 is running Windows Xp SP3 with a SCSI card to interface with my legacy devices, once again an i7 3770, 4gb RAM (although I think it may actually still have 16gb installed) and a 128gb boot SSD, I know Windows Xp isn’t a great idea on an SSD but I’ve got a bucketload of 128gb SSD’s and there is nothing stored on it bar the OS and programs

On top from left to right:

Nikon LS-2000 35mm film scanner (SCSI) (to scan negatives and slides)

Canon CanoScan 2700F film scanner (SCSI) (mostly just to scan APS film)

Panasonic LF-D201 DVD-RAM drive in an external enclosure (SCSI) 

On top of the DVD-RAM is a cheap PNY USB 3.0 card reader (connected to the T5810) 

Netgear FS108 “Fast Ethernet” switch, this is just for the Windows Xp machine and the Home Assistant Server

Tp-Link TL-SG105 Gigabit Ethernet switch, this connects everything else

Behind them is an EE WiFi Extender being used as a bridge (yes I know WiFi isn’t great, I’m going to run Ethernet one day)

Novatech USB 3.0 HDD toaster connected to the T5810 

Behind that is my Metcal Soldering iron

Cable management is awful and the entire setup isn’t great but I do have big plans and am getting the bits together to try and make those dreams a reality, slowly but surely I think it will get there but I thought I’d share so people can see some more low budget homelab setups not just the rack porn we all dream of

Future plans include

Dell MD1000 SAS storage array full of 3TB disks (already own)  
Transfer the T5810 to NAS duties running Truenas with a SAS card (already own)  
Build a custom server running proxmoxx for my Plex, Immich and any other self hosting needs  
Get a larger rack mountable 10Gbe switch and make nearly everything 10Gbe  
Get a rack mountable 10/100 switch (I’ve more legacy stuff to add)  
Get a rack and then mount my UPS and finally have the thing looking presentable

Amongst many many other plans

My Screwy Homelab Setup