Specs

Pi Lab is my homelab that consists primarily of Raspberry Pis. This blog is hosted on the Raspberry Pi cluster that started it all.

Pi Lab (Primary Nodes):

Load Balancer Node

• 1 Raspberry Pi 4 2GB Model B
  • Samsung EVO Plus 32GB microSDHC Card
  • Nginx
  • SSL - Let's Encrypt
  • Metrics Dashboard Node 0 (pi0)

Development/Production Node

• 1 Raspberry Pi 4 2GB Model B
  • Samsung EVO Plus 32GB microSDHC Card
  • Metrics Dashboard Node 1 (pi1)

Production Nodes

• 4 Raspberry Pi 4 2GB Model Bs
  • Samsung EVO Plus 32GB microSDHC Cards
  • Metrics Dashboards:
    • Node 2 (pi2)
    • Node 3 (pi3)
    • Node 4 (pi4)
    • Node 5 (pi5)

Common to all Nodes

• Operating System: Raspberry Pi OS
• Node Exporter - Expose Linux metrics
• RPi Exporter - Expose Raspberry Pi metrics
• CMS: Bludit - v3.13.1 PRO
• Theme: Blekathlon - Customized
• Plugins: Pi Lab Plugins
• Power: Anker 60W 10-Port USB Wall Charger
• Cooling: C4Labs Zebra Bramble Case
• More Details

Pi Lab (Non-Pi Servers):

Plex Node

• Aspire TC-1750-UR11
  • Intel® Core™ i5-12400 up to 4.4GHz
  • 32GB Corsair VENGEANCE LPX DDR4 3200MHz
  • Operating System: Ubuntu Server 22.04.3 LTS
  • WD Blue SN570 NVMe 1TB Solid State Drive (OS)
    • xTeVe (Docker)
    • Plex Media Server
    • Jellyfin (Backup Media Server) (Docker)
    • Tautulli (Docker)
    • Jellystat (Docker)
    • Overseerr (Docker)
    • ErsatzTV (Docker)
    • xTeVe (Docker)
    • Radarr (Docker)
    • Sonarr (Docker)
    • Lidarr (Docker)
    • LidaTube (Docker)
    • Prowlarr (Docker)
    • FlareSolverr (Docker)
    • qBittorrent (Docker)
    • Gluetn (Docker)
    • SABnzbd (Docker)
    • Unpackerr (Docker)
    • Posterr (Docker)
    • PlexTraktSync (Docker)
    • JellyPlex-Watched (Docker)
    • Plex Exporter (Docker)
    • plex-nowplaying (Bash)
    • Jellyfin-NowPlaying (Bash)
    • Exportarr (Docker)
    • Portainer (Docker)
    • Dozzle (Docker)
    • Scrutiny (Docker)
    • yt-dlp
    • abcde
  • Syba 8 Bay Hard Drive Enclosure
  • WD_Black 12TB P10-Game Drive - Shucked (WD Ultrastar DC HC520) (Movies)
  • WD Elements 14TB - Shucked (WD140EDGZ) (Movies)
  • WD easystore 14TB - Shucked (WD140EDGZ) (TV)
  • WD easystore 16TB - Shucked (WD160EDGZ) (TV 2)
  • Seagate 2TB Internal Drive - Renewed (ST2000DM008-2FR102) (Music)
  • SABRENT NVMe M.2 SSD to PCIe
    • WD Blue SN570 NVMe 1TB Solid State Drive (Cache - Downloads/Transcodes/Usenet)

Monitoring/Backup Node

• Dell OptiPlex 3060 Small Form Factor
  • Intel Core i3-8100 CPU @ 3.60GHz
  • Operating System: Ubuntu Server 22.04.3 LTS
  • 24GB DDR4 SDRAM 2133 MT/s
  • SABRENT NVMe M.2 SSD to PCIe
    • WD Blue SN580 NVMe 1TB Solid State Drive (OS)
      • Portainer (Docker)
      • Dozzle (Docker)
      • Scrutiny (Docker)
      • Watchtower (Docker)
  • Seagate BarraCuda 4TB Internal Hard Drive (Backups)

TrueNAS Node

• Dell Precision 5820
  • Intel(R) Xeon(R) W-2135 CPU @ 3.70GHz
  • Operating System: TrueNAS Scale
  • 128GB DDR4 ECC SDRAM
  • Sedna PCI Express (PCIe) SATA III (6G) SSD Adapter
  • Crucial 500GB SSD (OS)
  • Apps
    • Tailscale
    • Syncthing
  • VMs
    • Ubuntu 22.04 Server
      • Paperless-ngx (Docker)
      • Portainer (Docker)
      • Dozzle (Docker)
      • Nextcloud (Docker)
      • Hoarder (Docker)
      • Watchtower (Docker)
    • Proxmox Backup Server
• Raidz2
  • Seagate IronWolf 4TB NAS Internal Hard Drive
  • Seagate 4TB Internal Drive
  • HGST Ultrastar 4TB Internal Drive x 2
  • 3.5” HDD Hard Drive to 5.25” Cage
    • Seagate IronWolf 4TB NAS Internal Hard Drive
• Graphics Card
  • NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3]
• Power: 950W PSU

Proxmox Node

• Minisforum MS-A1
  • AMD Ryzen™ 7 8700G
  • Operating System: Proxmox
    • VMs
      • Ubuntu 22.04 Server
        • Nginx Proxy Manager (Docker)
        • Homarr (Docker)
        • Uptime Kuma (Docker) with Pushover
        • Speedtest Tracker (Docker)
        • OpenSpeedTest (Docker)
        • Prometheus (Docker)
        • Portainer (Docker)
        • Dozzle (Docker)
        • Watchtower (Docker)
        • Restreamer (Docker)
    • LXCs
      • Pi-hole
      • Grafana
      • Node-RED
      • Vaultwarden
      • Whoogle
      • Tandoor
  • 64GB DDR5 RAM
  • 512GB NVMe SSD (OS)
  • 2 x 1TB NVMe SSD Mirrored (VM Storage)
  • WD Blue SN580 NVMe 1TB Solid State Drive (VM Backups)

Networking & Power

• AT&T 1 GIG Fiber
• AT&T BGW-320 (Passthrough Mode)
• Google Nest WiFi Pro (4-pack)
• TP-Link 16 Port Gigabit Ethernet Network Switch
• NETGEAR 5-Port Gigabit Ethernet Unmanaged Switch
• CyberPower UPS x 2