New homelab hardware
February 25, 2026
I have purchased some more hardware to upgrade my homelab. Three Dell R730XD’s to replace my previous ceph cluster of three
R720xd’s and a refurbished APC SRT3000XMLI ups to replace my old APC ups.
The three servers came specced as:
- CPUs: 2x Intel E5-2680v3.
- RAM: No RAM.
- Disks: None but all have 12 lff cages.
Fortunately i have enough spare DDR4 ECC RAM to give each server 64GBs of RAM and they came with relativly new firmware, so it was easy to update to the latest firmware.
The new APC ups supports an output wattage of 2700w versus my old ups with only 2100w.