Xerxes Pi home lab blade network server!

Cheap home lab Pi server runs power over ethernet and M.2

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Cheap home lab Pi server runs power over ethernet and M.2

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Xerxes Pi is designed as a practical edge server rather than a hobby board. It prioritises reliability, storage, and real-world deployment, with support for ARM software, standard operating systems, and headless operation. This makes it suitable for research, small business, and field use where stability, compatibility, and extensibility matters. Run it with one of many Raspberry Pi Compute compatible boards and many compatible M.2 devices.

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I made the Xerxes Pi after my home garage server slowly turned into a techno-junk jungle. At one point I had three mismatched mini PCs, a retired laptop balancing on a paint tin, home automation bits that only spoke to *their own kind*, and enough cables to catch Spiderman. The fans sounded like a jet preparing for takeoff, the power bill was quietly judging me, and every “quick tweak” turned into an afternoon of unplugging the wrong thing and knocking something offline. I just wanted one quiet, tidy, low-power rack that behaved itself and ran the stuff I actually needed — so I built it, the Xerxes Pi! What do you guys think? Do you guys run your own home lab? Have you had these home lab blues? Would you try a Xerxes Pi yourself?

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9mo ago

NeuroBlock

@robnewport I love this, I just found you through your previous comment on my post. I’m wondering if this could help us with our local deployment approach.

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Meet Xerxes Pi, your inexpensive home lab blade server

Hi everyone, I m Rob, and I have a completely under-control, very reasonable addiction to small single board computers.

It all began in the 1990s when I worked as a student assistant in my university IT department. I didn t collect stamps or coins, I collected cables, mysterious adapters, and hard drives that clicked ominously but might still work. I d Frankenstein these parts together into creations best described as Franken-Seagate-RAID-esque, powered mostly by hope and zip ties. Despite my love of hardware chaos, I stayed loyal to software for a while.

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