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#hardware

The Home Lab Revisited My homelab has changed quite a bit since the last update, moving from consumer routers to OPNsense and eventually UniFi, while adding a dual-Xeon ThinkStation P710 with 192 GB of RAM for virtualization, containers, and more tinkering.

2024-11-28

Homelab Update An update to my homelab with a larger network rack, rack-mounted Raspberry Pis, PoE networking, an OPNsense firewall, a dedicated VPN router, and a Dell T5600 running my containerized media services.

2023-01-21

Raspberry Pi 4 USB Boot How to update the Raspberry Pi 4's EEPROM bootloader, change its boot order, and move from an SD card to USB storage using an M.2 SSD for a cleaner and more reliable setup.

2022-09-30

Raspberry Pi Cluster Upgrading my four-node Raspberry Pi Kubernetes cluster with PoE HATs and a PoE switch, replacing separate power supplies with a cleaner single-cable setup for both power and networking.

2022-05-01

The Mac Pro is Back After years with the compact and limited 2013 Mac Pro, moving to the 2019 model feels like a return to what made the original Mac Pro great: a proper tower with accessible, upgradeable hardware.

2022-01-21

Dell T620 Adding my first real enterprise server to the homelab: a used Dell PowerEdge T620 with dual Xeons, RAID storage, and 192 GB of RAM for experimenting with virtualization and server infrastructure.

2022-01-20

How to Install Arch Linux on RPi4 with USB Boot A step-by-step guide to installing Arch Linux ARM on a Raspberry Pi 4 and configuring it to boot from an SSD over USB instead of relying on an SD card.

2022-01-18

What's a Raspberry Pi? An introduction to the Raspberry Pi, the inexpensive ARM-powered computer that became a favorite among developers and makers, along with some of the projects and experiments you can build with one.

2022-01-16

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