We have recently decided to create a little series on budget servers for homelab environments. In this article, we took a look at configuring Hyper-V on the HP EliteDesk that we purchased a while back. Windows Hyper-V, which is a virtual environment built-in to Windows Server and Windows 10 Pro, Enterprise and Education. It is

When it comes to learning or building out components for a homelab, the trash heap of tech known as eBay or NewEgg refurbs is a thing of greatness. Last year, we put together a VMware server setup article, for which we acquired an HP EliteDesk 800 G1 SFF. It had an SSD and a supported

We recently posted a video on the Lenovo ThinkEdge SE50 on our TikTok account that went over swimmingly well. We received numerous comments revolving around using the SE50 as a pfSense router. The notion is widely unpractical, given the cost of the SE50 (it starts around $2500 US). But the system does have a lot

Samsung Magician is the company’s free SSD management software that offers a range of useful drive information and optimization features to help you get the most out of your SSD. We last looked at the software back in January 2020 (version 6) and found it to be very user-friendly while consisting of a comprehensive and

Synology has announced the launch of C2 Backup For Individuals and C2 Backup For Businesses, the latest addition to the company’s C2 cloud application portfolio. C2 Backup offers users comprehensive and efficient data protection for Windows devices, both at home or distributed across multiple offices. It also allows users to securely back up everything on

With the latest Game Ready Driver, NVIDIA has enabled GPU Passthrough beta support for Windows virtual machines on GeForce GPUs. Prior to driver 465.89, only Quadro NVIDIA cards supported GPU passthrough. For Linux users, this technology will allow playing Windows-only games in your VM; or, if you’re a developer, you can more easily test both

Thin Clients aren’t known for their gaming performance, at least when running a game locally, but compared to the classic consoles such as the Atari, SNES, DOS, N64, etc. Lakka makes hosting a retro-gaming console easy with out-of-the-box support for joypads, LAN multiplayer, and an original PlayStation-Esque GUI. Lakka is a Linux distro built on

Intel consistently releases firmware updates to their SSDs to correct issues that may arise with operation, and perhaps more importantly for consumers, to occasionally deliver even greater performance and reliability to their SSDs. Intel has an advantage in the space by engineering some of their components in-house such as their NAND and controllers, and when

Several years back (and an update just over four years ago) we went through Samsung’s data migration software and Magician, and gave an in-depth overview of how to use it and its features. Over the years Samsung has made several upgrades and changes to Magician and we will go over them here. We’re going to