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How to rack-mount anything.

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

A Hot-Swappable Raspberry Pi Cluster: Vertical Sleds, K3s, and Spares

A node in a Raspberry Pi cluster eventually needs to come out — a corrupted SD card, a board that's overheating, a...

Read guide → Oct 1, 2026

Once a Raspberry Pi project grows past a single board, there are two fundamentally different ways to rack the boards that follow,...

Read guide → Sep 30, 2026

The Raspberry Pi rack mount problem usually starts small: one board running Pi-hole, or Home Assistant, or a single Kubernetes node someone...

Read guide → Sep 29, 2026

The UM790 Pro and the UM890 Pro occupy a specific slot in the homelab hierarchy: the machine you buy when a Raspberry...

Read guide → Sep 25, 2026

Most homelab build guides quietly assume you own the walls. They tell you to find a stud, sink four lag bolts, and...

Read guide → Sep 23, 2026

The HP Mini is the most common thing I see people rack that was never meant to be racked. It is cheap...

Read guide → Sep 22, 2026

The Netgear GS308 is probably the most-deployed eight-port switch in home networking, and almost nobody who owns one can tell you which...

Read guide → Sep 18, 2026

The Beelink SER8 is the machine people buy when they have decided a Raspberry Pi is not enough and a used tower...

Read guide → Sep 17, 2026

The first UniFi rack is almost always overbuilt. Someone decides they want their network off the floor, and forty minutes later they...

Read guide → Sep 15, 2026

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