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Category: home lab

Minisforum BD790i X3D Motherboard Review with AMD 7945HX3D and PCIe Gen 5
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Minisforum BD790i X3D Motherboard Review with AMD 7945HX3D and PCIe Gen 5

Minisforum sent over another very powerful motherboard they have just come out with, the Minisforum BD790i X3D. This board is really geared towards graphics performance and has the specs to…

by Brandon LeeMarch 28, 2025March 28, 2025
Big Spring Home Lab Sale: Beats Pro, Mini PCs, 10 gig Network Switches, NVMe, Monitors, and more!
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Big Spring Home Lab Sale: Beats Pro, Mini PCs, 10 gig Network Switches, NVMe, Monitors, and more!

In case you haven’t heard, Amazon is having their Big Spring Sale starting today that is seeing huge discounts across the board for many of the items that we are…

by Brandon LeeMarch 25, 2025March 25, 2025
How I Deployed a Self-Hosting Stack with Docker Swarm & MicroCeph
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How I Deployed a Self-Hosting Stack with Docker Swarm & MicroCeph

I have been on a journey to try out various self-hosting stacks in the home lab and one of the configurations that has been a great platform for learning and…

by Brandon LeeMarch 21, 2025March 21, 2025
Automating Your Home Lab with Ansible, Terraform, and CI/CD Pipelines
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Automating Your Home Lab with Ansible, Terraform, and CI/CD Pipelines

There has never been a better time to automate your home lab with tools like Ansible, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines. With the AI tools and help we have today and…

by Brandon LeeMarch 20, 2025March 20, 2025
Optimize SSD and NVMe Storage for Virtualization in Your Home Lab
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Optimize SSD and NVMe Storage for Virtualization in Your Home Lab

When building out your home lab, the storage layer is arguably one of the most important. Choosing the right storage solution is key to having a platform that can run…

by Brandon LeeMarch 19, 2025March 19, 2025
Add NVMe slots to your Proxmox Server with Hardware and Bifurcation Mods!
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Add NVMe slots to your Proxmox Server with Hardware and Bifurcation Mods!

So I have been doing all kinds of modding and strategizing on my Proxmox server and trying different things on my second Proxmox server build. Since I am using the…

by Brandon LeeMarch 13, 2025March 13, 2025
PCIE Bifurcation and Why You Need It in Your Home Server
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PCIE Bifurcation and Why You Need It in Your Home Server

Building and running your own home server is one of the best ways to learn and allows ones to experiment and learn technologies that they might not get to learn…

by Brandon LeeMarch 11, 2025March 11, 2025
Core Performance Boost Setting: Speed vs Power Consumption in Home Lab
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Core Performance Boost Setting: Speed vs Power Consumption in Home Lab

I have built up a couple of Ryzen 9 7945HX home server builds over the past few weeks and have experimented a bit with the BIOS settings and things that…

by Brandon LeeMarch 10, 2025March 10, 2025
Home Server Build 2025: Run Proxmox or VMware ESXi 16 Cores and 128GB RAM
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Home Server Build 2025: Run Proxmox or VMware ESXi 16 Cores and 128GB RAM

I have been having fun building Proxmox servers with motherboards from Minisforum. I hadn’t really considered getting back into building servers as for literally the past 10 years I have…

by Brandon LeeMarch 7, 2025March 14, 2025
GoldenMate 1000VA UPS Review with LiFePO4: Never Need to Replace Battery!
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GoldenMate 1000VA UPS Review with LiFePO4: Never Need to Replace Battery!

I don’t write a lot about UPS units that are out there. A UPS is not something that is usually that sexy to talk about or even gets people’s attention…

by Brandon LeeMarch 6, 2025March 6, 2025

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