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The ultimate home lab server for 8-bay NAS and to host multiple VMs. | This is my ultimate DIY NAS build of 2025. It packs 8x hot-swap 3.5-inch disk bays, a decent Pentium Gold 8505, 64 GB of RAM, and enough NVMe ...
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The best 8-bay ITX case for DIY NAS projects. | I’ve built clunky NAS using tower cases in the past. However, for my NAS build this time around, I wanted something diminutive. Ideally, it would be something as ...
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Excellent motherboard choice for a NAS and home server. | The soul of any DIY NAS system has got to be its motherboard. After deciding to build a new NAS a few months ago, I spent some time to research the parts I ...
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The largely unplanned Wi-Fi, router, switch, PCs, NAS, and monitor upgrade. | We’re only two months into 2025, but I’ve already got quite a few home tech upgrades that I want to talk about. Many of them ...
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I really like tiny PCs. This GMKtec K8 Plus replaces my Intel NUC 11. | I’ve been intrigued by mini PCs every since I got the Intel NUC 11. I was disappointed when Intel gave up the NUC business to ASUS. When it ...
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A tiny powerful gaming-oriented PC for the minimalist desk setup. | I really like Intel’s tiny small-form-factor NUC PC. I use the NUC 11 Performance Kit myself. So while I was disappointed when Intel gave up ...
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How much power does a PC consume? | I built a PC-based NAS a couple of years ago. If you, like me, run a PC on a 24×7 basis, you might have a concern over its power consumption. How much power does the PC ...
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The Mac is still quite stagnant. | Apple’s latest Mac notebook, the Late 2019 16-inch MacBook Pro, seems to be doing many things right. It’s good enough to be even winning back some ex-Mac users who have ...
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RAM and NVMe flash prices have dropped much. | Good news for people who like to build their own PCs. You might have been horrified by the RAM prices in 2018. Large-sized SSDs weren’t cheap. Fortunately, the ...
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Switched, and sticking with Windows. | One year ago, I switched from Mac to Windows. It began as an experiment a few months earlier to see if Windows would work for me, and if it would serve my needs better than ...
