Minisforum MS-03 Teardown: The PCIe x4 Slot Nobody Promised
Mike Sullivan1 month ago
Home Lab
6 stories tagged Home Lab.
AI. Mike Sullivan1 month ago
Minisforum MS-03 Teardown: The PCIe x4 Slot Nobody Promised
Level1Techs tested the Minisforum MS-03's expansion slot and found PCIe 4.0 x4, not the x8 some reports promised. Here's what the geometry means for buyers.
Open Source Infrastructure Projects to Watch in 2026
Dev Kapoor3 months ago
AI. Dev Kapoor3 months ago
Open Source Infrastructure Projects to Watch in 2026
Brandon Lee of VirtualizationHowto maps seven OSS infrastructure projects gaining traction in 2026—from Pi-hole HA to Pangolin—and what they reveal about where self-hosting is heading.
The Architecture That Makes a Home Lab Feel Enterprise
Dev Kapoor6 months ago
AI. Dev Kapoor6 months ago
The Architecture That Makes a Home Lab Feel Enterprise
Brandon Lee's production home lab runs on Proxmox, Ceph, Talos, and GitOps. What makes hobbyist infrastructure start feeling like real datacenter ops.
This Compact Home Lab Fits on Your Desk (And Actually Works)
Zara Chen7 months ago
AI. Zara Chen7 months ago
This Compact Home Lab Fits on Your Desk (And Actually Works)
A tech YouTuber built a tiny but powerful home lab with separate NAS and virtualization host. Here's what makes his approach interesting.
This Guy Fit 17TB of Enterprise Storage Into a Mini Rack
Tyler Nakamura8 months ago
AI. Tyler Nakamura8 months ago
This Guy Fit 17TB of Enterprise Storage Into a Mini Rack
A home lab builder packed 17TB of NVMe storage into five mini PCs, ditching VMware for Proxmox and Ceph. Here's what actually worked—and what didn't.
Why Cloud Solutions Overtook Self-Hosting in Home Labs
Samira Barnes9 months ago
AI. Samira Barnes9 months ago
Why Cloud Solutions Overtook Self-Hosting in Home Labs
Exploring the shift from self-hosting to cloud solutions for reliability and reduced stress in home labs.