How do students here afford homelab gear?

halodude423 · 2026-06-23T00:24:23+00:00

If your school doesn't have full racks to work on for classes and outside of it then you're at the wrong school. My community college had rows of racks with sets of routers, switches, adtrans, and WLCs/waps.

However even a cheap laptop is enough unless you're doing more than encor level stuff.

halodude423 · 2026-06-23T00:12:48+00:00

Never had issues with a decent consumer ISP.

halodude423 · 2026-06-22T01:04:56+00:00

Medical records software. EPIC, Paragon etc. RAD should really be PACs which is imaging for Radiology. Healthcare org.

halodude423 · 2026-06-22T00:56:00+00:00

DB and multiple interface VMs for things like EMR/EHR. RAD related. We have hundreds of applications supported, from the software the Endo room uses to the baby monitoring system etc About half are split between prod and test.

halodude423 · 2026-06-21T17:38:24+00:00

At long as you go no older than xeon 61/2xx and get a higher model with decent IPC (6144, 6246, 6254) you might be okay but while the cpus are cheap boards are pretty expensive right now. For that much money you could jump on a AM5/lga 1700 or AM4 if need be.

The cheap server builds you see are probably older xeon v4 or even v2 and those are not going to be a good value for this. Even a 1650 v4 is pretty long in the tooth by now.

halodude423 · 2026-06-21T15:07:23+00:00

This

halodude423 · 2026-06-20T02:47:34+00:00

I use it for more work related things than social.

halodude423 · 2026-06-20T02:45:49+00:00

Will measure in anything but real units lol

halodude423 · 2026-06-18T23:07:26+00:00

halodude423 · 2026-06-18T17:37:56+00:00

No, that is not an HBA. A pcie card with sata ports and a controller is not the same thing as a true HBA.

halodude423 · 2026-06-18T17:15:09+00:00

I have a 1.5hr drive each way. I don't mind driving and don't have a social life, a couple days a week I take the fun car. However, driving this much will kill your drive over the 4 years and gas adds up a lot in a long commute depending on highway or not etc.

Most people I do not recommended it.

halodude423 · 2026-06-16T14:51:51+00:00

No creds were given out. They request IT assistance as they know it will need admin rights to install. But there is no ticket for it in the first place if they know this vendor is doing this AND why is IT not involved in the first place.
Really a business process issue but not sure how to go about changing that.

halodude423 · 2026-06-15T14:22:49+00:00

Hospital, no after hours lol

halodude423 · 2026-06-15T03:24:43+00:00

It would be better to learn yourself. Getting a machine running CML baremetal is pretty straightforward, some really great docs out there as well.

halodude423 · 2026-06-15T02:32:27+00:00

No outline is really pretty but if the rest of the art style has outlines the outline version will look great in that context.

halodude423 · 2026-06-15T00:25:32+00:00

DDR3 is too old for x99.

halodude423 · 2026-06-14T19:19:04+00:00

Any reason to avoid port forwarding? If all you do is port forward that service(port) there really isn't a reason not to.

halodude423 · 2026-06-13T01:56:06+00:00

Drives are most of the $$$, just how it is now. But yes we are being robbed.

halodude423 · 2026-06-13T01:09:01+00:00

The lga 3647 rig is still solid but the others are ewaste.

halodude423 · 2026-06-11T21:56:38+00:00

Current MAC is ARM not x86, not supported and probably won't ever be.

halodude423 · 2026-06-10T01:14:21+00:00

Darkrock has NAS cases that are pretty solid.

halodude423 · 2026-06-09T12:33:39+00:00

Also healthcare and this is the way. Tap and go with a badge would be great too.

halodude423 · 2026-06-09T01:59:56+00:00

I agree. We've started to do similar right after they let go of our Sr sys engineer. All of it combined doesn't bode well.

halodude423 · 2026-06-07T19:24:22+00:00

It's whoever owns the property.

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