Home Lab Enthusiast Struggles to Put Idle EMC Avamar Nodes and NVR Chassis to Use

A DEV Community article examines an over-engineered home lab with redundant networking, Proxmox clusters, and a TrueNAS storage server. Two components, EMC Gen4T M1200 Avamar nodes bought for $300 and a 2U NVR chassis, remain underused. The Avamar nodes are tied to proprietary backup software and lack standard PCIe slots, which blocks repurposing them for storage or networking roles. The NVR chassis sits inactive because high storage drive costs and incompatible non-IP cameras have delayed the surveillance project. The author argues that enthusiast preferences for enterprise hardware and reluctance to change working systems can lead to wasted resources.
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