Intel NUC in a Rack: NUC8 Through NUC15 and the ASUS Era
The Intel NUC has been through eight-plus generations, one corporate handoff, and a small army of imitators, and through all of it...
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The ER605 Omada Build: A Complete Budget Rack Around TP-Link's $60 Router
The ER605 is a strange product. It is a gigabit router with a managed-network control plane, VLAN support, IPsec and OpenVPN termination,...
A Three-Node Proxmox HA Cluster on ThinkCentre Tiny: Layout, Power, and Racking
Three ThinkCentre Tiny boxes is the canonical homelab Proxmox cluster, and it got that way for unglamorous reasons: the machines are cheap...
Racking the Apple and AV Corner: Mac Mini M4, Apple TV 4K, and WiiM
Somewhere between the switch stack and the patch panel, most homelab racks grow an AV corner. A Mac Mini running Plex or...
Minisforum MS-A1, MS-A2, and MS-01: Which One Belongs in Your Rack
Minisforum has spent the last few years quietly building the machines that homelab people actually wanted: small boxes with real network interfaces,...
From Shelf to Rack: A Migration Guide
Most homelabs start on a shelf. A gateway, a switch, an ISP modem, maybe a mini PC, all stacked on a wire...
1U vs 2U: Choosing Rack Height for a Given Device
Most small network gear does not come with a height. A mini PC, a fiber ONT, a gateway, a smart home hub...
10-Inch vs 19-Inch Rack: An Honest Decision Tree
The 10-inch rack question gets argued badly. One side says it is a toy, the other says 19 inches is enterprise cosplay...
Rack-Mount Patch Panels with Keystone Breakouts (Homelab)
A keystone patch panel is the one patch-panel-shaped object a homelab actually benefits from owning. The fixed punch-down panel — twenty-four ports...
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