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Building a homelab

Last year, I set up a Network Attached Storage (NAS) as central network storage:

  • Accessible across devices
  • Automatic backups
  • Personal cloud

Since then, the project has grown considerably:

  • It now also runs an ad blocker, a bookmark manager, a document management system, and photo library software.
  • Containers make it easy to deploy and experiment with more involved applications such as n8n and Flowise.

The next step is a dedicated, energy-efficient server that separates productive services from experimental ones and provides a practical setting for working with infrastructure and virtualization.

Hardware

  • Intel Core i5-14400 CPU
  • 64 GB DDR5 RAM
  • ASRock B760M Pro RS mainboard
  • Noctua NH-L9x65 CPU cooler
  • be quiet! Pure Power 550W PSU
  • 2 × Lexar NM790 2 TB NVMe SSD
  • be quiet! Silent Base 601

Homelab server build

I’ll be running Proxmox to manage virtual machines on the server.

My goal is to dig deeper into MLOps: from data acquisition and preprocessing through model training and deployment, all the way to monitoring and automated retraining.