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  1. nickscott18

    Low Voltage DC power distribution in home labs

    Been putting a bit of thought into this lately, and was wondering what other people do about low voltage distribution in their home labs. Reason I ask is at the moment, I've 6 wallwarts (4x 12v, 4x USB) in my lab, and a larger 12V power supply supplying power for the IP cameras, and I figure...
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    Homelab refresh

    So - after moving to a new (to us) house, I figured it was a good time to have a bit of a re-jig of my home lab. Mostly software changes this time round, but also moved to a new main work station. A lot smaller than most people here run, but very functional for me, and decent power...
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    Blade systems at home

    Does anyone on here have any experience in using Blade systems at home? On my local auction site, have just seen HP PROLIANT c3000 Blade Enclosure | Trade Me - which for NZ is a very good price (and where it's located, it should go for close to reserve - - AKA $200NZD). Everything in my head...
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    Trying out Proxmox VE in a home lab

    I've finally decided to try something other than VMWare ESXI (encouraged along by a drive failure) in my home lab, and figured Proxmox seemed like a pretty decent candidate - supports containers and VM's (ideal for my mix of Windows and Linux VM's at the moment), seems to be quite flexible in...
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    Forum traffic query

    Been browsing the forums for a while (more lurking than posting), and the posts per day appear to have increased over the last few months. @Patrick - you wouldn't happen to have any rough stats about this would you (that could be shared - understand if they cant be).
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    Interesting PfSense platform

    Browsing through my news feed today and saw this - the board in there looks pretty interesting Seems like a fairly ideal system for using with pfsense in home / small office scenarios - providing it is reliable, and compatible enough. $200usd for a complete box, with a pair of gigabit network...
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    New home server build

    Hi, long time lurker here, first time poster. I've been running an based server for a few years, and am now looking at upgrading it, and am just wanting some input on part choices - as I have not built a new machine for a few years now. Last server was a D525 atom based server, with 4GB ram...