Ripley

CPU and RAM installed on a motherboard

Ripley is the heart of my homelab.

It’s built using a mix of new components and decommissioned server parts from eBay.

Operating FreeBSD, Ripley provides local and network storage using ZFS. Virtualization using jails and bhyve allowed me to consolidate multiple production and development systems down to this single machine.

Parts list

SuperMicro X9SRL-F-B LGA2011
Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2 (10 core, 20 thread)
128 GB ECC RAM
2x 8 TB WD Red Plus WD80EFZZ SATA
2x StarTech M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD Adapter PEX4M2E1
2x 2 TB Samsung 990 PRO NVMe SSD
Mellanox ConnectX-3 10GbE PCI-E w/ Juniper SFP+ SR optical transciever