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Ain’t the fastest or prettiest, but it’s still been fun

A hobbyist detailed a three-node home AI lab built around Ryzen CPUs, an RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, and a Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB, running ComfyUI, Open WebUI, ollama, and Home Assistant, with plans to expand NAS storage and rack-mount the setup.

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homeai-desktop (Node-1) Ryzen 9 5900XT

32GB RAM

1TB NVME Storage

RTX 5060 Ti 16GB

B550M

ComfyUI, Open WebUI, TTS and STT (CPU)

homeai-offload (Node-2)

Ryzen 9 3900X

1TB NVME Storage

B550M

Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB

32GB RAM

ollama, grafana, nginx, ansible - open-tofu (Rocky Linux), semaphore, homepage, portainer, vaultwarden, uptime-kuma, wiki.js, Home Assistant.

homeai-immich (Node-3) Ryzen 5 5500, A320M

RTX 3050 6GB

16GB RAM

Immich

TrueNAS

Poweredge T330

Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1230 v6 32GB RAM

test_pool ~3.5T (2 out of the 8 drives populated, more drives incoming)

NVidia Jetson Nano Super

playing around with Nemo Switchyard

OPNsense (Firewall, IDS, NUT, CrowdSEC, Unbound, Routing)

Protectli Vault V1410

Things to do:

populate NAS with drives for family deployment.

better network infrastructure

move everything into a rack

More work and more hardware

source & further reading
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