Photos of the build

Inside the home server: labelled blue SATA cables, a low-profile CPU cooler, and a Corsair CX650M power supply
Top-down view of the Fractal case, with a white 500W power supply, labelled cables, and a white exhaust fan

Serving the Linux home server

Over the years I've built a lot of computer and accumulated a decent number of spare parts, with those parts I put together a home server.

Based on an engineering sample of an Intel i9 12900HK on a custom 'No name' motherboard, it has 16gb of DDR4 and has an Intel 'Iris Xe' GPU

The drives, eight drives in total from 1TB to 10TB. The array is 36TB, with a 10TB parity disk. I'm using a 500GB m.2 NVMe as a cache pool for faster writes and app data.

The insane price of storage over the last few years has slowed my upgrades, but I hope to eventually replace all of the drives with 10TB ones.

OS
Unraid
CPU
Intel Core i9-12900HK (engineering sample)
Board
Custom motherboard
Memory
16GB DDR4
Array
46TB
Parity disk
10TB
Cache pool
500GB m.2 NVMe
Drives
8 total

More photos of the build

Close-up of Fractal drive trays with white-sleeved power cables, labelled blue SATA cables, and a Thermalright CPU cooler
Inside the home server, with stacked drive cages, a 2.5-inch HGST drive, and an NZXT fan