A GTR, an intense homelab with multiple racks, designs own hardware and PCBs, billet blocks, built his own house, etc etc. Really a man after my own heart, I hope to accomplish the things you have one day.

Absolutely agree with the point that a CTO should understand and actually be able to work with the technologies they are responsible for. More companies leaders should adapt that mindset.

Finally, a tech guy that does KZfaq instead of a KZfaqr that does tech stuff.

Homelab endgame is having it big enough you get to test out different massive power, cooling, and cabling solutions!

When Nerd passion and a healthy bank balance combine. Good on you for building it.

I understood nothing of what he was saying but I still kept watching. There's just something so impressive when someone talks about what they're passionate about.

It's difficult to convey to non-homelab folk the satisfaction I get when i learn how to build and deploy a service for the first time, and then keeping it up. Always great to see how others scratch the homelab itch

The r/homelab legend in the flesh

"The Greatest Homelab That's Ever Lived". Thank you for taking the time to make this video, and especially for sharing your advice regarding the drive to learn new things. Super informative and interesting, I'm sure your setup is now the end-goal of tons of people that have seen these videos. As someone that owns a small computer repair business, it's awesome (and very humbling) getting a peek into this corner of the industry and the mentality that drives a successful CTO (and business)!

Very professional ! I bet this the dream of every IT guy. thank you Jeff for sharing.

Your videos are great. I appreciate these videos. Pls keep it up. Even if your are uploading a 10 to 20 minutes video every month or two. You and your projects are very inspiring. Greetings from Germany

As a chief arch and CTO myself, its so cool to see someone else doing a lot of the same things I'm doing for my home lab, power management, etc. Couldn't agree with you more on the need for a tech leader to know the tech they are approving or recommending. This channel as well as Dave Plummer are new channels I've found that go into this.

This is fascinating. I got started with my own homelab journey last year with small mini PCs and 3 HDDs with similar motivations (having an environment to learn and tinker without having to pay $$ for cloud instances). Thanks for the tour and these insights!

Your homelab - more like a datacenter tbh - is beyond awesome and this video explains a lot. Nice! But I'm more curious about the GTR now LMAO

Hey there! Just wanted to drop by and say how blown away I am by your homelab setup. Seriously, it's like walking into a tech wonderland. The way you've organized everything and the sheer amount of gear you've got running smoothly is truly impressive. You've created a tech sanctuary that's both envy-inducing and inspiring. Keep up the amazing work!👍👍😃

For many years I worked as a rack Builder. It was my hobby and job. Hundreds of cabinets, millions of meters of cables, cable markers, cage nuts, a lot of expensive equipment, some worth as much as a small house.

Do you give guided tours? I completely agree with your views about how CTOs should know the tech - It's called mechanical sympathy. In my experience, CTOs have been bureaucrats that know very little and are not interested/passionate about the tech. As a result, they make terrible decisions and they really undervalue their top level engineers who do make the effort to learn in their own time. Respect from Australia.

So happy you posted again and loved the full explanation and tour. As someone starting out, I would love to hear what you'd do if you were in a position to begin from scratch (what you'd start with, what has been your favourite and most interesting parts, etc...)

Amazing lab and I love your why.

Very cool. Thanks for the follow-on video and details. Homelabs are one of the best ways to learn safely, to work though a problem, to test things, before applying what has been learnt to production environments. Most companies seem to lack corporate test labs.

Appreciate the explanation, learning and experimenting and move up next level. It keeps me mentally fit after my retirement. Greetings from Holland.

I cannot second enough what you mention about understanding how the technology works from a base level up to, well, endless levels really, because technology is about always continuing to learn and improve. Doing things, building things, experimenting with things, and breaking things is how a true understanding can be achieved at every level, in my opinion as well, because of the inherent interaction that’s had at every level in the process. Understanding gives the freedom to redesign, modify, and configure things to the limit of your creativity, really, and I believe that is a true “expert” in a certain technology. I do not, and have never memorized anything about the technology I interact with, I get my hands on it, disassemble it, and do research to the end of understanding it. I’ve found that the brain, when it consciously understands how something functions at all levels, does not struggle to remember everything necessary to interact with it. And allows true creative interaction with it. It gives the freedom to see what things could possibly be, and is conducive to the creative implementation of something that is believed could possibly be. But it can all only possibly be from a deeply rooted understanding throughout every level up to the level that you are continuing to creatively learn to do, and make new things, and often times to make existing things work unconventionally in a way that makes something new. That is how all new things come to be a reality. By building upon the layers of understanding of the existing, and understanding is the only basis that allows that to be done. For me, at least. I hate memorizing steps and anything I don’t need to, because I can grow and create faster and worlds more efficiently if I just understand what I’m doing, and what I would like to do with it. Awesome home lab! I’d like to understand and do enough projects and learn enough to have my own version of something like that eventually. I’ll just keep doing things, and learning how things work. Cheers

Hey Jeff, You sound like a great boss! Really enjoyed this Homelab tour. Have a great day, Tom

What’s nice about the homelab is the freedom to store, organize and edit as many of your KZfaq videos as you want without worrying about storage space.

I hope to have a homelab like this some day. Your setup is a bucket list goal.

I love the home lab and home setup. I too have a home server room but not as futuristic as yours. I constantly get asked why I have this in my home as well and to answer everyone I say it is a amazing way to learn and experiment and cope with my day to day Hunger for knowledge. the closest thing I can use as an example would be a person that really loves cars. They may own multiple or just one but on any given day that car is always takes care of and is something they take great pride in. Its even better when you enjoy something so much it lives with you even after you come home from the same type of work. At the end of the day when you work in the crazy tech industry its nice to come home to something you built yourself and you know works, No politics involved in home labs! keep up the great work.

Amazing homelab setup and much more feasible when doing new construction but not impossible to retrofit if you are determined. Keep in mind that Jeff more than likely had several homelabs over the years that culminated to this state so don't get down on yourself (myself included!) if your homelab doesn't resemble his end product. Jeff - incredible work and thank you for showing us your setup, truly appreciate it!

Nice followup and deep dive of the whole shebang. Very informational and inspirational.

Agreed with the comments, very neat and elaborate setup. More videos please :)

Your setup makes me wish I was a kid again so I could say "When I grow up I want a setup just like that!". I really liked the part about always learning and being capable in the things you are overseeing.

Awesome! Thank you for sharing, please keep uploading!! :)

Love it. Thanks for the extra details!

You are my new role model. Amazing.

Ok, not only does he have inspiring technical know how and a brilliant approach to being a CTO, he applies those to improve healthcare globally with surescript. Legendary hero.

Hats down Sir. This is remarkable indeed!

holy cow... a whole datacenter just to "learn" ^^ and here i am... needed 1,5 years of saving money to be able to afford a 4060. so jealous. reminds me of my project, many many years ago, to build my own touchscreen-wireless-device to control my own programed videoplayer. one of my first things i build on my own and i was so proud... many years later, less currency, all gone :x im happy for people who can do what they dream of without thinking about currency. well done sir, well done.

You are an inspiration and amazing. Tahnk you for sharing your experience.

I'm happy that KZfaq recommended me your homelab video and I checked out this one! Yours is basically my dream homelab!

Ultimate badass. You inspired me to build up my home lab. Give us more, please!

Thanks for this amazing video

I agree so much on all these "I need to understand what manages" and "Continue learning" parts, I have the exact same mindset so it's quite inspiring to see the success it seems to have had for you brought, I hope to follow a similar path to you Have fun with that modest "keep it simple" homelab ;)

My jaw dropped when I saw your tour of your "homelab"...very impressive stuff sir. I dream of being this knowledgeable when I am your age

Fair enough. Incredible setup man.

love the power setup thats really nicely done

I would love to see more of this kind of videos !

Love the shirt! And the homelab.

Nice insight. Thanks for sharing

Jeff, just discovered your content. Super impressed, keep it up. This is awesome.

You have created something amazing :) I will be happy to hear more about your homelab or other interesting solutions you have implemented.

Jeff, what a fascinating and unique homelab you’ve built. If you’re willing to, I’d love hear more about the power and cooling setup you put in place and any of the interesting challenges you had to tackle. Whatever you choose to talk about next, I’ve subscribed and look forward to watching.

OK...that explains the mini Data Center you build.... Great work! Would like to see the stuff you doing with Video and AI... Then there's also a lot of other things...so please keep sharing.

Jeff this is so cool man . I have a crap education stopped at 6 grade and fell into electrical work as a career . I’ve worked oilfield for 10 years and got thrown into controls . I would stress out on basic motor controls and compressor systems for process controls on call . So I took home bad or replacement parts and built em at home to learn and understand low voltage controls . Now I want to get certs or somehow get more understanding of automation . That’s my next goal . Anyway thanks for your video !

I am working in tech for quite some time and people like Jeff are an inspiration! Love the content :)

You are very cool and an inspiration!

youre a genius... the things youre saying the terms.. im googling everything.. so cool.

glad you’re uploading again. I was here originally for the billet subi build but this is also interesting.

Brilliant stuff. If i had the cash and the time I've love to build a lab similar to that. Whomever you work for is lucky to have someone like you, that's for sure.

Beautiful wiring work

Wonderfull job all the best man 🙌🙌🙌👍

You should have way more subscribers. The content you cover is amazing!

so cool. appreciate this video

A CTO that has technical chops, gosh that is refreshing!

Keep the videos coming, Jeff! Loving your content, major geek envy 🤣❤

Thanks for the follow up, I was wondering what all of those servers were doing. Linus Tech Tips needs to meet this guy!!

thanks for the follow-up video. I got an awesome homelab sir

I love this! My goal is to get to this level of home lab one of these days!

Very cool setup. Hoping to do something similar if I ever get my house built. Also will put a heat pump water heater in there to recover some of that excess heat, hehe. Your policy of dogfooding, even at home, is a great policy for a CTO.

you are a legend, hope i can get to the point one day where im able to do these sort of things for fun at this scale and afford it.

I asked that and THANK YOU for making a video about it!

ah, yes, a fellow Trekkie 🖖 - also, your lab is dope! and listening to you explain is awesome, too

My greatest respect for sharing the pov that CTO should actually be able to do the technology they are responsible for. This is a requirement for building a successful company

I have no idea what you just said, but I'm impressed

Holy shit You are an inspiration I'm just gonna leave it at that

Legit lab, and T-shirt. Good philosophy too, on the job.

Only problem, is I cannot thumbs up this twice. Thanks for sharing this. Amazing!

The 'gluon' lab, sounds like they do some pretty nuclear stuff! On a serious note; this must've taken a countless amount of time to construct in designing, planning, testing, and executing a set up where you can a huge array of investigations from mathematical/computational projects to AI stuff. Super interesting and inspiring, I aim to have a laboratory like this in my future

Great video, do more please!

Totally agree. I am currently the President and CTO of my organization. “You have to know how it works”…

This was inspirational, ordering a set of Raspberry Pi's to start my home lab.

This is a dream setup that i would love to make myself when i buy my own house

Jeff and I are a lot alike. He has 200 TB he won't delete and I have a tote of random cables I can't part with

I just want to say that you are such a cool guy, I am not even interested in homelabs, or at least not that data center you have, but you are really really cool guy doing what he loves without trying to be some "viral" youtube star, but just sharing some of your passions.

This is the kind of person I would want as a CTO.

8:45 - Hey fellow Portlander. Yeah, having that deep understanding is so critical when you gotta dive in and address something at the drop of a hat. It’s also great for just iteratively improving on stuff. And 💯% with you on just diving in and trying it out. Getting hands on is a fantastic way to not only learn but gain that deep understanding that’s so incredibly useful later on.

I saw ur homelab and thought u are 25-30 y but man u are a CTO. Ur energy is high

3kw continious load would set me back 766€ (820 USD) each month in electricity. Thats about as much as my homserver cost me to build. Your Homelab looks impressive!

I think you should post more videos showing off cool stuff you have like the vintage computers just seems like you have insane breadth of knowledge

I suddenly feel insanely inadequate!! 😵‍💫 Amazing videos!

This is epic, cant wait for more

I would love to learn these things too

Holy shit, this guy is smart. Not just smart, but he has a lot of "mental energy" to handle his day job, family, and "hobby".

Really an excellent video, I would love for more informative videos, breaking down more of your mentality around building the homelab. I am a CybSec student who would love to model a smaller version of your clearly professional configuration when I have the funds to do so.

im a big fan

I understood at least half of the words you used!

thats so sick man

Very nice setup ! I have a similar setup in my home . I get the same question ALL the time.. People look at me with like I have ten heads when they see I have a data center in my basement . My team built 18 data centers for a global telecom back in the early 2000 and so having my own DC makes me feel very comfortable.. I use my clusters for a lot of study and some docker applications that run some of my stuff .. my rack mount pi cluster is still in progress but very excited to have ..

Mister, I admire you, props to you for being this dedicated to your homelab. Absolutely amazing and astonishing

You mentioned that your homelab can be managed remotely, which I interpreted as meaning that it is exposed to the internet. I would love if you could go over how you went about ensuring security while being on the web, if this is the case. Thanks.

damn that's so cool!

First: Awesome Video. I really like the setup :D. What Came to mind was it would be awesome if batch jobs (for example your maths fun) runs if you have solar to prevent relying on the Grid. And it looks like your data pool is already there to have some fun with Carbon Aware Computing. Additionally: We still need a Video on the actual HW!!!! What CPUs, how did you spec?