home lab
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How to upgrade the Minisforum MS-01 BIOS
If you are running the Minisforum MS-01 in your home lab as a home server, if you are like me, you may have bought one of the first ones that came out right around the first of this year in…
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Minisforum MS-A1 Giveaway! Comment and Subscribe to win
Recently, I posted a post about the perfect home lab environment. Also, in conjunction with this post, the latest video for my channel focuses on this configuration and also I partnered with Minisforum for a Minisforum MS-A1 giveaway. Mini PCs…
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Perfect Home Lab 2024: MS-01s, NVMe Memory Tiering, and NVMe NAS
I think I may have found my perfect solution for home lab at least at this time. I now have two MS-01s in a cluster configuration, with NVMe memory tiering enabled and an NVMe NAS. Let me give you guys…
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Top 10 Home Lab Tools I Use in 2024
When it comes to running my home lab, there are a few tools that span across hardware and software that I use. When I sat down to think about exactly what I use the most, I narrowed this list down…
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I am Creating a Disaster Recovery Site for My Home Lab
Most will say home labs are generally over the top, with server-grade hardware in server racks. And I think I agree for the most part. However, most of us do what we do because we love tinkering around with technology…
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Running Dissimilar VMware Cluster on Mini PCs
As I have written about quite a bit lately, I have been pairing down the home lab environment from my older Supermicro servers to mini PCs that I have been testing on the past few months. One of the main…
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Shut Down Server Due to Heat: Consolidating My Home Lab
Here in the northern hemisphere, we are approaching the summer with rising temperatures and heat. In replying to a comment on a blog post for the Minisforum MS-01 and talking about summer temps and moving workloads to mini PCs, I…
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Best Server for Home Lab is Changing in 2024
Things are changing if you look around at what everyone is looking at for running home labs and a dedicated server. There are several reasons for this. It is a combination of what people want to run and the hardware…
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Home Server Build or Buy?
Many are looking at possibly spinning up a home lab in 2024. There is a lot of benefits to doing that for learning, labbing, and just having fun. It is not only a great hobby, but it also lends itself…
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Home Lab Nested Virtualization E-book Download
Nested virtualization is one of the most underutilized tools in home labs in my honest opinion. It is a tool and technology that allows you to have what you need to “rinse and repeat” steps in a home lab. Or,…