current place is fibre - ONR -> splits to 3 one end's the other apartment with an AP and TV, one AP and TV on the second one, and my stuff on the third ...
I have no idwa big my home it. But I only use the kitchen to cook in, the living room only when I have guest etc. So I basically live in the same room as all my equipment
when we were running the dorm server room we got a full sized 19" rack (2m tall or something?) and filled it up... for home use now I can do with far less :P
building my stuff according to usage these days... everything I want to run 24/7 can be done off of a Raspberry Pi... if I need more power or access to the giant storage array, I send a WOL ping
There is absolutely no excuse for me to be wasting time doing meaningless things when I could be working on the same sorts of projects, learning JavaScript/PowerShell/Docker/LXD/ZFS/whatever while simultaneously meeting all of my personal and professional obligations.
went from RAID to ZFS btw, because rebuilding got to dangerously long times
basically the chance of a second drive failing during rebuild time became realistic, few reliable manufacturers left so the drives tend to be similar in brand, type and batch
gotta say the effort was quite doable, FreeNAS and ZFS are relatively straightforward, and the case I got was a dream to assemble the server in