My use case is a homelab kubernetes cluster, so I want multiple nodes for redundancy, but I don’t want to use too much electricity or generate too much heat. But for the sake of other readers, let’s keep it general:
What’s a nice little computer for a homelab, with its own power supply, ethernet, and room for 2 internal disks?
Is the two-disk requirement for capacity, redundancy, or keeping workloads separate? I’m exploring an N150 home-server concept and trying to understand where a compact box becomes too limiting. Storage seems like a decision worth getting right before choosing the enclosure.
Exactly. If you’re running kubernetes, you probably want etcd to have its own disk. And if you don’t have a NAS, then you’re looking at extra disk to hold your data. The data disk should probably be separate from the OS disk.
You can usually take the guts out and rehome them if necessary.