home lab
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home lab
Share your Home Lab 2024 and Win a $799 Mini PC
In an effort to motivate ones to share their home labs with the community, I will be giving away a Beelink SEi14 Mini PC to a random winner who shares pics and specs of their home lab. Let me share…
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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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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
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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VMware
VDBench to Benchmark your VMware Datastore
If you have built a VMware ESXi server or cluster with a datastore or multiple datastores, you may want to see if the IOPs with the datastore are what they are supposed to be, or you may not know what…
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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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Computers
Proxmox Mini PC Monster Running 150 Virtual Machines!
Recently, I reviewed the Geekom AE7 Mini PC with the Ryzen 7840HS processor and 32 GB of memory. While I didn’t have the RAM modules I wanted to have to fully test this little mini PC, I got my 96…
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Mini PC & Server
Upgrading Minisforum MS-01 RAM to 96 GB
The Minisforum MS-01 is a fantastic home lab server that I think fits the bill for most to run or start running their own home lab virtualization environment. It has the hardware features and capabilities that I think most will…
