{"id":374,"date":"2026-04-07T20:36:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tiaportfolio\/?p=374"},"modified":"2026-04-07T20:41:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:41:30","slug":"test-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tiaportfolio\/2026\/04\/07\/test-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Details About The Homelab Hardware So Far"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The PC, Networking Devices, and the Drive Bay<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In the interest of saving my wallet and the planet, I decided to get a used Dell Optiplex 3050. It has an i5-7500 CPU @ 3.40 GHz (1 socket), 16 GB DDR4 RAM, and a 256 GB SSD. I figured that 16GB of RAM would be a good starting point for the homelab, and I&#8217;m glad that I did, as it&#8217;s frequently pushing the limit due to my Debain VM running Docker. Once the &#8220;RAMmageddon&#8221; calms down, I might upgrade to 32 GB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tiaportfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37859\/2026\/04\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"738\" height=\"366\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tiaportfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37859\/2026\/04\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tiaportfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37859\/2026\/04\/image.png 738w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tiaportfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37859\/2026\/04\/image-300x149.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 738px) 100vw, 738px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">My poor baby!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My Proxmox is connected via USB to my Orico 5-bay hard drive enclosure, which currently has four 2 TB HDDs in it in a ZFS striped mirror configuration (RAID 10). I&#8217;ll detail the zpool and zfs commands that I used to make and maintain it in another post. I&#8217;ve definitely had to deal with errors due to sudden power loss!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tiaportfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37859\/2026\/04\/image-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"363\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tiaportfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37859\/2026\/04\/image-1-1024x363.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tiaportfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37859\/2026\/04\/image-1-1024x363.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tiaportfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37859\/2026\/04\/image-1-300x106.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tiaportfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37859\/2026\/04\/image-1-768x272.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tiaportfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37859\/2026\/04\/image-1-1536x544.png 1536w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tiaportfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37859\/2026\/04\/image-1.png 1707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, the most recent additions to the homelab would be my networking equipment! I have recently purchased a Ubiquiti UniFi USG-PRO-4 managed switch and a Linksys MX5300 Velop Mesh to use with a repurposed Mac Mini running OPNsense in a VM as my router, switch, and access point combo! The Linksys router has already been flashed with Openwrt. They will be connected with Cat 6 Ethernet cables.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PC, Networking Devices, and the Drive Bay In the interest of saving my wallet and the planet, I decided to get a used Dell Optiplex 3050. It has an <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tiaportfolio\/2026\/04\/07\/test-post\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":3},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tiaportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tiaportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tiaportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tiaportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tiaportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tiaportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tiaportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tiaportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tiaportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tiaportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}