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Shrinking My Homelab: Migrating to the DeskPi RackMate
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Why Downsize?
If you run a homelab, you know the struggle—space, heat, noise, electrical and just the sheer sprawl of hardware. I’ve transitioned my Homelab from multiple old laptops, various cloud platforms, full rack servers, to raspberry pi farms. I have been running an enclosed 19" 24U rack for a couple years now, and the current hardware is detailed below. After seeing Project Mini Rack by Jeff Geerling, I started reconsidering the setup. My original plan was an 8U and a 4U DeskPi RackMate (T0/T1) for a combined 12U, but the 8U sold out as I was ordering so I pivoted and picked up three 4U units instead.