This has a beautiful and nostalgic scrapyard wars vibe but its about homelabs instead of Gaming PCs. I love it, please make it a series.

I can't believe my 2 favourite home labbers collabbed

love the concept. BTW, that netgear nas has an Atom D525 in it, so you CAN install any OS you want. You also said that it has 2x 1TB drives, but the listing stated 2x 2TB WD Red for 4TB total.... that's worth the price you paid by itself, and if the NAS works, you can install proxmox on it and have a pfsense VM as it has 2 rj45 ports.

"Facebook is good for two things..." Fine, have my "subscribe."

3.... 🥁 2...... 🥁 AAAAANNNNDDDD!! 3! That got my dying 😂

Just watched Colton's video. Had to immediately come over here! This is a genius idea with a scrapyard wars vibe. Love this series already! Lol

Imagine the two of them meeting each other on Facebook Marketplace

The collab I didn’t know I needed. Great video as always!

Great video! Can't wait to see the outcome! I feel like I am constantly doing this in my every day hunt for computers anyways lol.

Dude I've watch a bunch of your videos over the past two years, but it's been mostly hardware reviews / tutorials. Getting to see your personality in this video was awesome. The comment you made - the two good things about facebook had me cracking up.

Just watched yours after I watch Colton’s video and I’m stoked to see what you both are doing on the part 2!

I actually made a homelab with a ~200$ budget not too long ago and I followed a very similar process. Really cool to see it done properly and in a gamified manner. Also you can never have too much scrapyard wars. Subbed and can't wait for part 2!

This is a collab I love

Great idea and super fun to watch. Well done guys!

The UPS was a waste of money. You really don't need one for a home lab, especially in this challenge, there is nothing "mission critical".

Brett, that was the coolest thing I've ever seen!

I'm really digging this challenge you guys have going. i'd like to see you guys make this something somewhat regular, like every 6 months, do a challenge with a different goal. Looks like you've got you're work cut out for you... Good Luck.

11:40 lol the guy is living in the GTA San Andreas neighborhood joking aside, just stumbled on your channel and so far i'm loving it!

My homelab cost me $85 and works fine for what I do with it! Just some small Docker containers and my Unifi portal is all I need for now

Man, this video was fun! A lot of fun, especially when the wheel choice was the off-the-shelf NAS.

I did enjoy that paper to parts transition!

That was the second coolest thing I have ever seen. The first coolest thing I have ever seen is a $75M+ buyout for my team to suck 😭

Have a good vacation sir, can't wait for part 2

I'm running ZFS on one SSD in porxmox it's FINE, everything is FINE! Just no protection, so I backup frequently to a NAS with ZFS.

finding the challenge is interesting, looking to start building a home lab setup so I'm finding this series good for research building one on a tight budget.

It's wild to me that a UPS is a core home lab item for you. I guess it's because of how reliable your grid is and/or past experiences with it? I've been home-labbing for about 2 decades now and I think I had 2 power outages in that time, with only one being longer than a few seconds. Never had a UPS and still don't think I need one.

Now this sounds fun!

Love this challenge video!

Ive bought a old chenbro server with a 1220 V2 8gb ram. Then bought 5 old 2tb sas drives and 2 60gb SSD in z1 for boot drives and made a nas using freenas all costing a lil over $200. Still works after 3 years.

Brett, that was THE coolest thing I've ever seen!

you kill me with the ending

This challenge has massive potential!

interesting. I'm basically doing the same for my parents. I don't know raspberry pis are to blame, but it time to upgrade their NAS from an external hdd

You could have just connected the NAS to the pc using usb or Direct using a LAN cable.

In my experience using cheaper to better UPS's for the home, to include at work, and such, the cheaper UPS's aren't worth the money; the cheaper units that retail for a new price under $100 to 150 - can do more damage than good; generally one should want the pure sine wave or simulated sine wave output, but those tend to be pricier. A good UPS however, can reduce the number of issues that one has with their electronics, especially computers and server equipment. Been there, done that. More prevalent in areas with huge growth, like many homes being built; in areas with frequent power outages, or in areas with large numbers of apartments, etc. With any UPS, if you received it in any condition but new, you probably should pull the battery and make sure it's not swollen, split open, leaking, bulging, or obviously damaged. I've seen examples of each since I started using UPS's for personal computers since about 1993 or so. The worst was a commercial UPS that where the inverter itself was a 5 foot cube, with four 5 foot cubes as distinct battery banks, and one swollen battery inside blew up; other batteries inside showed signs of bulging/swelling. Was inside the server room when the battery blew. The battery that blew up was literally the size of a truck battery inside an enclosure. It went with an audible bang, a spark show visible against the wall, and a good puff of smoke.. The entire UPS system was 25 foot long, by 5 foot high by 5 foot wide. The last two smaller UPS's I repaired ( 120v consumer type models ) - one had swollen batteries, and one had both batteries split open with zero acid left inside. Both would have been a fire risk to use as is. Pop open any used UPS and check the batteries first before using them. Again, even if the unit works, check the batteries. Swollen batteries and split batteries are actually VERY common as UPS's age.. Heat eventually destroys the electronics. If it stops working, check the batteries. In the smaller server room UPS's, 1500 to 3000 VA, which are quite expensive, we had about a 50/50 chance of fixing the UPS by replacing batteries, the first time, usually because the inverter or charging side has gone bad. This is typically after 2 to 4 years. By the time that a second set of batteries was needed, chances are that the electronics have failed. These units new range in price of $1K to 3K each. The smaller the UPS, the less chance to fix the UPS by replacing batteries. With new UPS's, at times, all that was needed was to pull the batteries out, and charge with a vehicle type charger.. The average (ANY) UPS, including consumer models, is good typically for 2 to maybe 4 years tops, before the batteries or UPS need replaced. If lucky, a new set of batteries is all it needs for another 2 to 3 years. Personally, I would not bother with replacing batteries on anything smaller than 900 VA. VA is short for Volt Amps, and is a rating on the "apparent power" of the UPS. The good news is- as more and more homes get solar or wind power with battery backups, well, you'll have the good inverters coming with it. R.O. spent $32 on a gamble that the UPS was good; new, on Amazon, it'd be $68; new 350VA UPS's from other brands can be had for $50 or so. Tripplite is a really good brand however; so probably more worth the risk than most cheaper brands. As the protected side does not work, it's likely the inverter does not work, or perhaps a fuse has blown inside the unit. APC and Tripplite are my preferred brands. As far as condition is concerned, there is new, refurbished (aka renewed ) and used. New is always the best; sometimes renewed means something, sometimes it does not. Used usually means - it's on e-bay because, often, the owner had a problem with it, despite what the owner denotes elsewhere. Ask how old the unit is; if you hear anything older than 2 years, it's probably got bad batteries or bad electronics.

Love the challenge. But charging this old UPS while you're on vacation is kind of a fire hazard...

5:30 I died 😂😂😂

I gotta ask - what U desk is this? I need to upgrade and that setup is perfect!

Okay, I wouldn't leave that battery thing unattended. Fire safety reasons and such.

Your local PC prices are incredible, most people near me want $100 for a workstation with no RAM or hard drives That being said, I've gotten UPS deals out the wazoo. I've picked up APC 550, 600, 650, and 800 models, each for less than $10, then put a $20 battery in each one and they work perfectly

Brett, that was the coolest thing I've ever seen

You can run zfs on one drive. Still have some benefits for doing that.

Well I've watched just now on hardware haven Btw is the judge gonna be mryeester

so i just picked up a brand new acer Aspire XC-1660G-UW92 at walmart for 99 bucks on clearance. i got it to build a nextcloud server. im thinking 10th gen i3-10105 with 64g of ram should do fine for a homelab

20:41 I'm french....and NO, not french at all... or i don't understand the joke here 🙂

Lol "cool transition in 3. 2....and 3"

i wouldnt be able to convert my personal home server ot full SSD for under 200 as 2tb drives are still not cheap

Instead of a server+UPS, I think I would've gone for a used laptop.

How does that "no more than one computer Allowed" works? Does it means you'll only be allowed to use the nas as your homelab?

HAHA !! Epic

Brett I loved the transition... just don't do it ever again

Has anyone ever told you that your voice is a cross between Paul's Hardware and Norm Mcdonald?

Marketplace and racism 😂

Helllo, I'm in México and I have DDR3 ECC unbuffered memory available, also have an off the shelf NAS I don't use, its is kind of shitty, but hey, rule is that you should include it, not run entirely on it.

I am probably ignorant, what is a home lab?

MikroTik and a raspberry pi. I win

Faceoff with your community in round 2

ZFS + SSD only = the ultimate disaster, it's genuinely sad to see people going for SSD-only homelab, and throw ZFS onto it and end up with terrible performance and 40x faster SSD wear just because some dumbass thought ZFS is a good option for homelab beginners -_-

I think youre cool, but leaving an unknown UPS plugged in while your out of the country? Yikes!

why a ups... waste of money with 200$ budget

Winnner has to go up against @CraftComputing!

Brett, that was the coolest thing I’ve ever seen