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Servers & Home Labs

A home lab should be stable, documented and quiet enough to live with. We plan hardware, storage redundancy, networking and power protection so the lab works for you instead of becoming a second job.

Servers & Home Labs

What's included

  • NAS and RAID / ZFS planning
  • Virtualization host sizing
  • Firewall and VLAN design
  • Rack layout and cable management
  • UPS sizing and graceful shutdown
  • Backup strategy (3-2-1)
  • Documentation and labeling

At a glance

Rack sizes
6U – 42U
Storage
8 – 200+ TB
Budget range
$1,500 – $20,000
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