Why running a Homelab? You need time, you need money and you need electrical power. But where else can you test new software or new features? The cloud could be a good way. But clouds are often expensive, and I wanted to have my lab on-premises. There are two ways to build a Homelab on your own. You can buy a big server and test the software in a nested kind of way, or you can buy two or more small form factor (SFF) servers to get the full “native” experience.

Memory in the homelab. A topic that probably hits everyone. Most of the time CPU resources are sufficient, but memory is usually a bottleneck. My colleague William Lam has tested the new 32GB DIMMs in his Intel NUCs. Link Unfortunately, William has no generation 7 NUCs. So I thought, take the 300 Euros and test it myself in my environment. I ordered the new DIMMs here. The installation was super easy and after 10 minutes the new memory was installed.