Or from your kids, cousins, etc… trying to keep it simple. What do you request as cheap homelab related items?
I just have those nice Monoprice Slimrun cables so far.
Cable organization things for racks?
Tools (usually pretty expensive)?
Gift cards?
Or just avoid it altogether?
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simple idea: Label maker
not so simple: Highpoint NVMe RAID AIC with 8 x 8TB m.2 to go with it
My wife was asking me for ideas and I asked for 7000kwh to power my lab for the next year :D
That’s almost exactly 800watts, all year long. That would be more than enough for me😂
Off the top of my head: Electric screwdriver, pcie NICs, media converters, maybe some hard drives, bulk USB drives for imaging PCs, patch cables, front bezels for my servers, patch panels, blank panels for the rack, a desk mat, an electric duster, magnetic screw bowl, maybe some certification study material. All of these can be under $100 and most are easy to pick out for friends and family that aren’t technically inclined.
Something Epyc
A raspberry pi 5 would be a neat little stocking stuffer.
I just ask for time with them.
18 TB easystores back at BestBuy (usa).
All I want for Christmas is 4 x 2 TB nvme’s and an Asus Hyper card - is that to much to ask Santa… is it!
I’m running a biofurification m.2. card that was $30 and it’s amazing, might want to try it if your motherboard supports it. Bifurcation is the ability for the motherboard to split individual pci-e lanes into multiple groups that can be used by many devices at once. The cost of m.2. pci-e cards plummets if it relies on the motherboard for that.
It’s from a company called Konyead, it’s their 4 slot m.2. ssd to pcie 4.0 x16 adaptor.
Microcenter or Newegg GC. eBay GC is also a good choice
A PC that can run proxmox that’s has at least 128GB RAM. Pushing that 32gb limit with the VMs I’m running. Also time with my daughter b4 she turns into an all-out teenager
A well paying job to feed my addiction for expensive tech.
I ask for maintenance windows.
You don’t need maintenance windows if your services are clustered and your devices are redundant.
Free electricity for everyone.
I don’t ask for anything. I buy what I want myself.
To get my first IT job that I applied for. Thankfully, I passed my first interview, and the recruiter was very happy with me.
Knock on wood / fingers crossed!!!
I went on a first interview after studding mechanical engineering for 9 years. I applied for IT job and I got it lol. We talked about my homelab setup and my hobbies and I guess they liked me even though I didn’t have previous IT experience. I’m now extremely happy I get paid for a job I love.
Thank you!