black mac mini
Even though its not a mac mini and will be running a linux os Unraid, the name was inspired by a video I saw about how to cluster mac minis to beef up your local LLM capabilities. After a bit more research, I came to the realization that I could just get an M4 Pro Mac Mini and use that as a node that I can access from my Macbook. Looking at the pricetag... woof! $1500. So I set out on trying to build my own from parts that I either already had, got for free from work, or bought used on ebay. Here is a list of stuff so far:
| Processor | ryzen 9 processor | facebook marketplace | $200 | ||
| DDR5 RAM | ebay | ||||
| GPU | amazon | ||||
| PCIe SATAIII card | ebay | ||||
| cables | amazon | ||||
| 6 drive ssd bay | amazon | ||||
| 6 ssd hard drives | |||||
| various power cables | free from work | $0 | |||
| NVME ssd | amazon | ||||
| PCIe NVME ssd card | aliexpress | ||||
| Power supply | free from work | $0 | |||
| Case | free from work | $0 | |||
| Fans | free from work | $0 | |||
| Motherboard | ebay | ||||
| CPU Heatsink | free from work | $0 | |||
| Unraid Licnese | $119 | ||||
| Unraid USB Stick | |||||
| 12TB RAID Drives (3x) | amazon |
how am i going to retro fit the front?