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Recently, I’ve been busy working on setting up my home server. I had a old pc that my mother used to use, so I always wanted to turn it into something useful, like maybe running a game server on it when I make a multiplayer game. I’m actually planning to make one this year, so I might consider this as a first step or something.
This is the machine! Looks nothing too exciting, but that’s what I like about it. Currently, I have to leave it running in my room and I don’t want neon lights and firecrackers popping everywhere while it’s running 24/7.
The parts I reused are:
MSI H310 pro-vh
1 x SSD(unknown manufacturer)
2 x 16GB ram
Intel Celeron G4900
Here’s what’s left of it:
The old case didn’t even have a proper drive bay. It was designed so that users would screw drives to the bottom directly. So I ordered a new one and I quite like it for the reasons I mentioned earlier.
In addition to that, I bought two new seagate Ironwolf pro 4tb drives. For now only two of them because of the budget limit.
Next, I installed proxmox using a ventoy usb. Initially, I was thinking about using unraid, but while I was making the boot usb, I came across a proxmox video on youtube and thought that would be a better OS for running Unreal game servers on VM later on. So I installed Proxmox and set up a Unraid VM on it.
(I blurred out everything because I’m not sure of what data I should sensor or not yet.)
Speed is a bit underwhelming, 150mb/s-ish on both read and write speeds, but it gets the job done. I also set up some cron jobs to send me emails for when something goes wrong.
Overall, all this building and learning stuff took around 3~4 days, and it was a fun journey. I still feel like I have much to learn, so I hope I improve over time.