Personally, I’m a staunch member of the Proxmox faction and wouldn’t trade it for anything else. But after falling down the ...

But after grabbing more workstation nodes, I began eyeing 10 gigabit hardware. And before I knew it, I’d already ordered a ...

[Mods - feel free to move if needed. This straddles multiple areas, this seemed like the best fit to me but I'm happy to have it moved if anyone feels there's a better subfora for it) Building a new ...

When I was a kid, my home lab consisted of test tubes and beakers, sodium bicarbonate (baking soda), acetic acid (vinegar), and the occasional boom, followed closely by the sound of my mom in the ...

Have you ever poured hours into building a home lab, only to find yourself tangled in a web of mislabeled cables, unexpected shutdowns, or worse, data loss? For tech enthusiasts, a home lab is more ...

Right now I'm running Windows Server 2008 on my old 2Ghz, A7N8X & 768MB. But I'm ready to upgrade that this month.<BR><BR>As I will be running R2 as the OS, I'll need to have a 64bit system. I'm ...

For a family member, Tom sets up the Terramaster and tests it for suitability as a NAS for his own home VMware lab. Last year I set up and reviewed a QNAP TS-431K after having a catastrophic failure ...

Earlier this year, I wrote that I was going to start a next-generation home lab. Alas, I haven't made any significant progress on the topic. But I did have a power outage that made me realize that my ...

Have you ever looked at an old, unused laptop gathering dust on a shelf and wondered if it could still serve a purpose? What if that aging device could be transformed into a cost-effective, ...