Edit: so it turns out that every hobby can be expensive if you do it long enough.

Also I love how you talk about your hobby as some addicts.

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    Literally any hobby I have seriously messed with.

    Although- racecars was never cheap.

    My homelab started off pretty cheap. But, at this point, I am quite certain I have a few thousand bucks worth of hardware. Shit- I have two thousand bucks in just HDDs, SSDs/NVMes…

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      Homelab for me too. Started off with a repurposed gaming PC and exploded into multiple hosts, tons of drives, and an itch to keep expanding

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        Yea…

        I’m up to over 140T of storage,

        I have a FULLY loaded r730XD, 256G of ram, all drive bays filled. All PCIe LANES used. (ie, lots of bifurcation).

        I have a proxmox cluster consisting of it, a few SFFs, and a couple MFFs. 10G connectivity for everything but the micros.

        Have a ceph cluster. Have a kubernetes cluster. Have iBGP routing in place, multiple firewalls.

        I have a bit of everything here. Its a fun hobby.

        Oh, and don’t forget, a 20kwh entire home UPS / battery backup, with another 2.4kwh dedicated to the server rack.