home server
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home lab
NetBox Docker Compose Install Example
The NetBox solution is a great tool that can allow you to document and have a single source of truth for your network and infrastructure. Network and infrastructure engineers can use it as the starting point for driving automation and…
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home lab
Enable CPU C States for Massive Power Savings for your Home Server
I have been deep-diving lately into helpful suggestions, configurations, and settings that help to lower the power bill in a home lab or edge environment with server hardware or even mini PCs running as servers. I want to shed light…
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Proxmox
Low Power Server with Powertop & Proxmox
If you are like me and using mini PCs for home lab servers as your main workload servers, you are likely doing this for power efficiency reasons. I have gone from true enterprise servers in the home lab down to…
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Storage
How to Update TerraMaster NAS TOS 6 Operating System
If you are running a TerraMaster TOS-powered NAS device (I am now running the TerraMaster F8 SSD Plus unit), you will likely need to update the TOS operating system on your Terramaster when updates come along. I wanted to show…
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Mini PC & Server
Beelink Sei14 Mini PC Review as a Home Lab Server with Intel Arc
Beelink kindly sent over a Beelink Sei14 Mini PC for me to review. Of course I do reviews a little bit differently than most when it comes to Mini PCs. The first thing I do is take out the NVMe…
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home lab
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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home lab
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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home lab
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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Mini PC & Server
Minisforum MS-A1 Review as Home Server
When I saw the announcement of the Minisforum MS-A1 AMD Ryzen-based mini workstation that looked like the exact hardware and case of the MS-01, I was excited. I really like the uniform Ryzen processors over the Intel hybrid core processors…
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Mini PC & Server
Mini PC Server Rack Mount Options
Since I am getting more and more mini PCs in the home lab data center and since I have a traditional server rack that makes housing everything much easier, I have been thinking more about mini PC server rack options…
