Rack guides

How to rack-mount anything.

Fit guides, build notes and plain answers for homelab gear.

Rack-Mounting Audio Gear: Sonos Port and the JDS Labs OL Switcher

Most of what ends up in a homelab rack is networking and compute gear: a switch, a mini PC, maybe a firewall....

Read guide → Oct 28, 2026

The QNAP QSW-2104-2T-R2 is a small, fanless 2.5GbE switch that shows up in a lot of homelab racks because it sits right...

Read guide → Oct 27, 2026

A JetKVM is small enough to lose on a desk, which is exactly the problem once you have two or three of...

Read guide → Oct 22, 2026

Home Assistant Green and Home Assistant Yellow solve the same problem from opposite directions. Green is the appliance version: plug it in,...

Read guide → Oct 21, 2026

The Mac Studio was built to sit on a desk, not in a rack. It has no rack ears, no vented front...

Read guide → Oct 20, 2026

The UniFi Switch Pro XG 8 PoE fills a specific gap in UniFi's lineup: eight ports of 10G PoE++ in a compact...

Read guide → Oct 15, 2026

TP-Link's unmanaged and Easy Smart switch lineup covers more ground than the model numbers suggest. The TL-SG105 is a plain five-port unmanaged...

Read guide → Oct 14, 2026

Minisforum's AI X1 Pro is the company's answer to the current wave of NPU-equipped mini PCs, built around a Ryzen AI chip...

Read guide → Oct 13, 2026

The NVIDIA DGX Spark is the first box that makes "run the big model at home" a realistic homelab project instead of...

Read guide → Oct 8, 2026

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