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 In Part 5 we created a “Scans” share for our Multi-function Printer to scan documents to. Now I could take the lazy route and just run everything under the admin account. That would be simpler but less secure. In this case if someone were to hack into our printer, then they could access everything…
Introduction We are on part 5 of this multi-part Synology NAS series. Now we are on the first of 2 parts that are main reason of buying a NAS. Creating file shares and creating users to access those shares. You can technically can do Part 5 and 6 in any order. So lets get started…
Introduction Now lets finally set up the whole point of buying a NAS. Storage! A Synology NAS is just a box that has a bunch of hard drives in it. The role of NAS devices has grown over the years. Besides just holding files these NAS devices are doing more light weight server roles like,…
Introduction We’re at the Synology NAS basic configuration part of the process. In this step we’ll be setting up the administrator account, Assigning a static IP Address to the NAS and then add a little extra to Synology NAS. We’ll be configuring LACP Link aggregation on the Synology NAS and the our managed switch to…
Introduction A Synology NAS is useless without Memory and Storage. In Part 2 of this series we’re going over the process of installing both Memory and Storage Hard drives in a Synology NAS. Then we’re going to discus why there are some memory limits on Synology NAS devices. At the end we’ll wrap everything up…
Introduction Over the last year I’ve been working on a lot of new projects at work. Because of that it’s required me to work a lot extra hours. In my off hours my wife and I have been focusing on landscaping or just not IT related things. During that same time I had to 2…
Back around the 4th of July Best Buy had a sale on 8TB Western Digital EasyStore external hard drives. So I thought about it and decided it was time to shrink the burstcoin rig and just make it simpler. Around the beginning on the year I had got a Lenovo Thinkcentre M93p (AKA Lenovo Tiny)…
Introduction About a year and half ago, I needed a distraction from some of chaos in my personal life and decided to build a FreeNAS NAS storage server to act as an iSCSI target. I started detailing out the build in a couple of posts but then life got in the way and I never…
Happy New Year to all of you! And with a new year comes a new server. On New Year’s Eve I was doing some Hard drive shopping and found a seller on Amazon clearance out 2TB Seagate SAS2 Drives for $47 each… So I bought 8 for this build.
Introduction Every year multiple bloggers and tech journalists put out a FreeNAS Storage Server build log of building a home/small NAS. Most of the time the goal of these builds is to be as low power and cheap has possible. To be fair for an average consumer that needs a place to store family photos…