I killed mine several years ago in favor of an HP Microserver. There was a guy who made & sold cables to plug into the motherboard header but the supply was always limited as he did it for fun.It was good kit once upon a time, but it was designed to run windows home media server & was very tightly specced for that. In their desire to make it "easy" and not intimidating for end users HP sort of crippled them for homelab people.
These things were kinda beloved by their owners in their day, but the gymnastics you had to do for a clean OS install got kinda excessive. It was neat at the time but the market went elsewhere. It could stream movies and if you installed an agent on your laptop it would do baremetal level backups of the OS for you & store them on the server. As a media device it was actually kinda cool. You were never supposed to actually hook a keyboard to one, it was all controlled via a web browser or RDP if you were fancy. r/HomeNetworking - Simpler networking advice.īefore streaming took off there was a brief moment when microsoft tried to get into the buisness of selling home media devices. r/pfsense - for all things pfsense ('nix firewall) Might be able to find things useful for a lab. r/hardwareswap - Used hardware, swap hardware. r/buildapcsales - For sales on building a PC r/linux - All flavors of Linux discussion & news - not for the faint of heart! Try to be specific with your questions if possible. r/linux4noobs - Newbie friendly place to learn Linux! All experience levels. r/datacenter - Talk of anything to do with the datacenter here We have an official, partnered Discord server which is great for all kinds of discussions and questions, invite link is clickable button at the top of the sidebar or right here.Keep piracy discussion off of this subreddit.Īll sales posts and online offers should be posted in /r/homelabsales.īefore posting please read the wiki, there is always content being added and it could save you a lot of time and hassle.įeel like helping out your fellow labber? Contribute to the wiki! It's a great help for everybody, just remember to keep the formatting please. Report any posts that you feel should be brought to our attention. I think, cause i purchased a cable to hook up VGA to my EX470.
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