Welcome to the Hardware section of TDSheridan Lab, a specialized subcategory under our ‘Home Lab’ category. This space is dedicated to exploring the diverse and crucial world of hardware components essential for building and enhancing your home lab setup. Our focus is on delivering expert insights and detailed reviews about the latest hardware tools and technologies that can revolutionize your personal lab experience.
In this category, we delve into various types of equipment, from servers and storage solutions to networking devices and peripherals. We understand that the right hardware selection is key to a successful and efficient home lab, and our content is crafted to help you make informed choices. Whether you are setting up a new lab or upgrading an existing one, our comprehensive guides and comparative analyses provide valuable information tailored to your needs.
The world of Hardware is ever-evolving, and staying updated with the latest advancements is crucial. We bring you the newest developments in home lab hardware, covering emerging technologies and innovative products that can add significant value to your setup. Our articles and reviews are designed to keep you ahead of the curve in this dynamic field.
Moreover, this subcategory offers practical tips and DIY solutions for optimizing your home lab. We discuss cost-effective approaches, performance enhancement techniques, and customization options that cater to a wide range of budgets and technical skill levels.
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Introduction Welcome to the latest installment on TDSheridan Lab, where we dive into the exciting world of graphics cards with our new video featuring the installation and XFX AMD RX850 GTS video card benchmark. This powerhouse of a card has been making waves in the gaming and graphics community, and we’re here to put it…
Introduction Updating intel server firmware is crucial for performance and security. In this guide, we’ll walk you through the process step-by-step, ensuring your FreeNAS server is up-to-date and running efficiently. I technically updated the intel server firmware as the first step when I first received the server, but from a logical layout of the project…
Gigabyte in their infinite wisdom decided to re-engineer something that didn’t need to be.
Introduction Earlier this week I got my hands on an Ubiquiti Unifi USW Flex Mini Switch…. and I love it. If you’ve read any of my other Ubiquiti posts you know i’ve been pretty harsh or realistic from a business prospective on the Unifi products. And those critiques still stand, but hopefully this product bugs…
I Created an video for Unboxing an Unifi Switch 8 PoE switch.
Introduction We have finally made it. We’ve made it to the last section of this project. Now that we’ve set up the main services on the NAS and moved our files to it. Let back it up just in case the whole thing implodes (*knocks on wood). There is a lot of options between Cloud…
Introduction As some of you know, Veeam the leader in virtualization backup released backup solutions for bare metal machines last year. The Veeam Agent for Windows or Linux is a simple standalone program that runs on a physical server or workstation and can back up to external hard drive, Veeam Backup and Replication Repository, or…
Introduction Cloud Storage is great! it allows you to have flexibility of where some (or all) of your data is and can be accessed from almost anywhere. The down side is that the only thing that is really protecting that data is a password. Side note whenever possible enable 2 factor authentication for everything. While…
Introduction We are moving right along through this multi-post Synology NAS series and now we’re starting to get to a very important topic, Backup. At home I have both windows and mac computers, public cloud storage, and virtual machines that need to be backed up. In the next couple of posts we’ll be going over…
Introduction We’ve finally gotten to the fun part of the Synology NAS Project. Synology NAS Plex Media Server! As many of you know Plex is the leading home media server application. It takes all of your Movies, TV Shows, Home Videos and Music and makes it available to almost any device through the Plex App….