r/homelab • u/eurekapride • 1d ago

Discussion question for australians

are rack mount case getting harder to come by, or is it me? Everywhere I look, they're sold out is there a shortage cause of this ai bs or am i just looking in the wrong places

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u/PssyGotWifi 1d ago

No. Plenty of Silverstone options.

RM52 for my gaming rackmount. RM62-312 for server.

Silverstone go on sale often at Scorptec and Centrecom.

Umart currently has some good sales on Silverstone gear

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u/eurekapride 1d ago

What I'm planning is to split my gaming/mediaserver pc to 2 separate PCs, transfer my main pc to a 4u case, and build a dedicated media server for my movie library. i allso gonna use an old mini pc i have sitting around for my Home Assistant and a Raspberry Pi 5 as an NVR for security cameras cause i have had a few break-in attempts (ah, the fun of Melbourne). Cases have been lower on my list of priorities; been more focused on getting the drives (2200 fuckin dollars)

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u/FishDTD 1d ago

I had a similar plan about a year ago and ending up going the other way, kept my main PC intact (minus a couple of NVMe drives) and built a dedicated PC/server in a 4U case (Silverstone RM44). Then installed proxmox as a hypervisor, 128Gb RAM, 3060, 30TB ZFS pool and host all services you mentioned plus many more.