And before getting into the server upgrade details, I started to consolidate and optimize the space usage of my home lab; all the devices I had in the rack were short-deep appliances, between 9" deep and some of them even less. While researching, I found an interesting fact, pro audio equipment also uses the 1U …

Now its time to share the experiences I had while building my home lab. Keep in mind that I began this project back in March 2016. First, I set a group of criteria during the planing of the build of the equipment I wanted to use in the first iteration of my server. The main ones was: RAM Capacity: Because the primary …