OptiPlex 5050 - Home Server

📅 Date Added: 2023-07-01

My unRAID based home server / NAS solution.

This server comes in handy for accessing my data within and outside of my network. It was just set up a month or so ago as of writing this, and I hope to find even more uses for it as time passes! It is powerful enough to host a game server for friends, run VMs as a hypervisor, or simply run Docker containers. It was quite a task to manage to fit all of these drives inside this mini tower case..

Hardware Configuration:

• Model: Dell OptiPlex 5050 MT
• CPU: Intel Core i5-7500 3.40GHz
• RAM: 32GB TEAMGROUP DDR4-3200 + 8GB SKhynix DDR4-2666
• UPS: APC Back-UPS BN450M (monitored via USB)

Storage Configuration:

• USB Boot Drive: 64GB SanDisk Cruzer Ultra Flair USB 3.0
• Parity HDD: 4TB Western Digital Red Plus
• Primary Storage: 4TB Seagate Barracuda Compute
• Secondary Storage: 1TB Seagate Barracuda
• Cache SSD: 256GB Samsung PM830 2.5"

Software Configuration:

• OS: unRAID
• Homebridge Server (for HomeKit integration)
• Tailscale for secure LAN access
• Nextcloud for easy photo backup