OptiPlex 5050 - Home Server
My unRAID based home server / NAS solution.
This server comes in handy for accessing my data within and outside of my network. It was just set up a month or so ago as of writing this, and I hope to find even more uses for it as time passes! It is powerful enough to host a game server for friends, run VMs as a hypervisor, or simply run Docker containers. It was quite a task to manage to fit all of these drives inside this mini tower case..
Hardware Configuration:
- Model: Dell OptiPlex 5050 MT
- CPU: Intel Core i5-7500 3.40GHz
- RAM: 32GB TEAMGROUP DDR4-3200 + 8GB SKhynix DDR4-2666
- UPS: APC Back-UPS BE600M1 (monitored via USB)
- GPU: Palit GeForce GT 730
Storage Configuration:
- USB Boot Drive: 64GB SanDisk Cruzer Ultra Flair USB 3.0
- Parity HDD: 6TB HGST UltraStar 7200RPM
- Disk 1: 4TB Seagate Barracuda Compute
- Disk 2: 6TB HGST UltraStar 7200RPM
- Disk 3: 6TB HGST UltraStar 7200RPM
- Total: 16TB usable space
- Cache SSD 1: 256GB Samsung PM981 NVMe SSD
- Cache SSD 2: 256GB Western Digital SN740 NVMe SSD
Software Configuration:
- OS: unRAID
- Homebridge Server (for HomeKit integration)
- Tailscale for secure LAN access
- Nextcloud for easy photo backup
- Zipline for photo, file, and link sharing
- Gatus for service status monitoring
- Homepage for a sleek, clean homepage for the browser
- Vaultwarden for secure password management
- Jellyfin for media management
- qui for... well.. if you know you know
- Beszel for system resource monitoring
- CloudBeaver for database management