Best First Rackmount Server for a Homelab: R730 vs R740 vs DL380 Gen9
The chassis is the cheap part. A used Dell R730 sells for a few hundred dollars, sometimes less…
The chassis is the cheap part. A used Dell R730 sells for a few hundred dollars, sometimes less…
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A Ceph cluster used to mean a rack, a 10GbE switch the size of a pizza box, and…
Most storage guides start with a single box. Ceph breaks that habit on the first page, because Ceph…
A NAS build is really one decision wearing a lot of disguises: how many drives do you need…
You want to run a stack of VMs and containers at home without renting a cloud, and a…
The Raspberry Pi 5 is still the easiest way to get a tiny Linux machine running, but it…
Before you buy a faster switch, the real question is how much of your homelab actually needs more…
You’re sizing a homelab box and the RAM question is the one that actually decides what you can…
A homelab UPS has one job your desk UPS does not: hold the load steady long enough for…
Building a NAS yourself comes down to two decisions: what box to put it on, and whether to…
Picking a NAS in 2026 is a different decision than it was even two years ago. The brand…