My Minifridge Homelab

This is the post where I talk about my nice homelab.

I bought this mini rack from KENUCO back in the fall of 2022, and what a great purchase it was.

The good

• So small and compact.

The bad

• The included fan sucks. At least when I bought it. I was able to use a Noctua 120mm fan , which improved the experience greatly. It sucks that the original fan kind of just became e-waste, but it’s really not useful for anything. Undervolting the fan using the included cable makes makes the fan noise totally doable.

What’s in the boxxxxxx

From top to bottom:

• Motorola MB8611 modem¹
• Ubiquiti Edgerouter X
• Netgear switch , 8-port, gigabit, unmanaged
• Home Assistant Box: Raspberry Pi 5 , Argon NEO 5 NVME case, 8GB RAM
• Main homelab box: Lenovo ThinkCentre M90q Tiny Gen 3 , i7-12700T, 64GB RAM, NixOS

There’s all sorts of other goodies in there like my temperature sensor.