home lab
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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 been buying off the shelf servers from Supermicro for home…
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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 most of the time. However, the GoldenMate 1000VA 800W UPS…
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5 Uses for NVMe Storage in your Home Lab Server
I really think storage is an often overlooked aspect of setting up and configuring a home lab server. Most know about CPUs and memory as super important when running virtual machines and containers. However, storage, is equally important. In my…
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AMD Strix Halo Coming for Home Lab Mini PCs
If you are like me, you are keen on following the trends and new hardware releases coming out that can potentially be beneficial to the home lab environment. With home labs, most look for efficient hardware that can be used…
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Home Lab Hardware I’m Most Excited About in 2025
As we are now near to the last month in the first quarter of 2025, there are many developments that I am excited about when it comes to home lab hardware. It seems like there are more powerful hardware options…
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Minisforum BD795i SE Motherboard Review for Home Lab
Minisforum is a name that is synonymous with home labs. They have one of the best mini PCs available for home lab use in the Minisforum MS-01 mini PC. I also predict we will be saying that about its successor,…
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Mini PCs with 128 GB RAM: New Home Lab Era!
I think we are seeing a new era evolve in front of our eyes with the introduction by Crucial of the new 128 GB RAM kit that is now out at most of the major retailers. Never before have we…
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AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX BIOS Settings: Power Consumption and Bifurcation
I have recently put together a Proxmox Home Lab Server build for 2025 and as the core of the build, I used the Minisforum BD795M motherboard. This motherboard has the AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX processor installed from Minisforum. You do…
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Should You Build or Buy a Home Server in 2025?
There are za lot of reasons to either build or buy a home server in 2025. In this post, I want to discuss the options, the pros and cons, and also which approach you might want to choose depending on…
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vCenter Server on Proxmox: So Wrong Yet So Fun!
I have been having so much fun playing around with Proxmox, migrating virtual machines, and running various tests and scenarios in the home lab. I have been doing lots of testing with Veeam Backup & Replication backing up VMware environments…
