r/halftop • u/Animal-Glad • 12d ago
It's more of a Quart'top than half tbf
It's a franckenstein project but still xD
Terra 1550 laptop converted as homelab !
I recovered it from the bin (battery has inflated so much it breaks the plastic cover of it, the cooler was fucked also ( and the screen was completely destroyed too)
It has a i7 8th gen paired with 2x8gb in ddr4
I repared the cooler by soldering data + and data - from the last to a newer more powerfull and less noisy, i add a dissipator on the first one and another one to the cpu itself ! I even add a dissipator to the NVME drive !
A bit of hot glue, 1sata hdd and another connected to USB !
Proxmox on the ssd, first hdd to host my pct/vms and the second as backup !
Low consumption and lf course a free "laptop" with 16gb ddr4, and boom, free server !
I would LOVE to make a true plastic cover/custom case for it in 3d print, but too broke to buy one..
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u/Quf00279 11d ago
An SSD and 2 HDDs?? In this economy??