I’m in the process of wiring a home before moving in and getting excited about running 10g from my server to the computer. Then I see 25g gear isn’t that much more expensive so I might was well run at least one fiber line. But what kind of three node ceph monster will it take to make use of any of this bandwidth (plus run all my Proxmox VMs and LXCs in HA) and how much heat will I have to deal with. What’s your experience with high speed homelab NAS builds and the electric bill shock that comes later? Epyc 7002 series looks perfect but seems to idle high.
From the wall I’m pulling 120w
Ryzen 5700G
128GB ram
2tb + 4tb NVMe drive
2 x 20tb HDDs
Unifi Enterprise 24 PoE
Mikrotik RB5009
2 access points
3 cameras
Fiber runs cooler than copper all of my SFP+ are fiber.
I feel almost obliged to ask: what are you running on this monster of a setup?
Mostly for PiHole.