Exploring, deploying, and testing hardware, software, and other technologies. Some say, you will learn what not to do here.
Custom System Builds
Explore some of my work with building custom computer systems. See everything from servers, to mineral oil submerged media centers, to gaming rigs, and sometimes customizing pre-built systems.
Projects
Our most popular and sought after source for leveraging hardware and software to achieve various goals. Here is where we test, experiment, and explore all technologies.
Testimonials
“Stefano’s installation skills & no-nonsense presentation got our attention, which started our wheels spinning for future projects.”
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August 2023
- Aug 21, 2023 ER8411 Poor Upload and Download Perfomance Fix Aug 21, 2023
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July 2023
- Jul 7, 2023 Factory Reset FS IP PoE Camera IPC-304-8M-B if the Access Hatch is Damaged Jul 7, 2023
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June 2023
- Jun 14, 2023 TP-Link Omada EAP655 and EAP615 WiFi Comparison Jun 14, 2023
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January 2023
- Jan 11, 2023 Self Hosted Wiki for your Homelab using WikiJS, Docker, and Unraid Jan 11, 2023
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December 2022
- Dec 7, 2022 Red Hat 8.6 Allow Users to Execute coredumpctl Dec 7, 2022
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October 2022
- Oct 19, 2022 TP-Link Omada Wireless Access Point Size Comparisons Oct 19, 2022
- Oct 13, 2022 Red Hat 8.6 NVIDIA Optimus and 12th Gen Intel Alder Lake Driver Installation Oct 13, 2022
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August 2022
- Aug 15, 2022 Red Hat 8.6 FAPolicy Preventing Podman Containers from Running Aug 15, 2022
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March 2022
- Mar 31, 2022 Red Hat 8 fapolicyd Adding Exceptions or Adding Trusted Applications Mar 31, 2022
- Mar 17, 2022 Red Hat 8 Example Kickstart Configuration to Deploy to NVMe Drives Mar 17, 2022
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January 2022
- Jan 19, 2022 Host a Dedicated Project Zomboid Server with Unraid Jan 19, 2022
- Jan 3, 2022 Backup your Unraid Server with LuckyBackup Jan 3, 2022
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November 2021
- Nov 3, 2021 What Hard Drive is in the Western Digital 14TB Easystore? Nov 3, 2021
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October 2021
- Oct 15, 2021 SK Hynix HFS001TD9TNI-L2A0A FC PC611 NVMe 1TB OEM Benchmark Oct 15, 2021
- Oct 7, 2021 How to Install NVIDIA Drivers with Kickstart on Red Hat 8.3 Oct 7, 2021
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May 2021
- May 30, 2021 SK Hynix Gold P31 Benchmark and use as a Cache Drive May 30, 2021
- May 30, 2021 Micron 2300 MTFDHBA1T0TDV NVMe 1024GB SSD OEM Benchmarks May 30, 2021
- May 27, 2021 Using Unraid to Host Dedicated Game Servers May 27, 2021
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March 2021
- Mar 21, 2021 Unraid Valheim Dedicated Server Mar 21, 2021
- Mar 20, 2021 Unraid 6.9 OBS Capture, Encoding, and Twitch or YouTube Streaming Server Mar 20, 2021
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February 2021
- Feb 25, 2021 Unraid Ryzen Server Build 2021 Feb 25, 2021
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January 2021
- Jan 10, 2021 Cooling my Home Server Closet with the AC Infinity Airframe T7 Jan 10, 2021
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December 2020
- Dec 30, 2020 Workaround for DNS Rebinding Protection on the UDM Pro and Unraid SSL Provisioning Dec 30, 2020
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November 2020
- Nov 27, 2020 SSD Parity vs HDD Parity vs SSD Array in Unraid Nov 27, 2020
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October 2020
- Oct 8, 2020 What Hard Drive is in the Western Digital 12TB Easystore? Oct 8, 2020
- Oct 2, 2020 Unraid to Remote Unraid Backup Server with Wireguard and RSYNC Oct 2, 2020
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September 2020
- Sep 19, 2020 NVMe Parity vs HDD Parity in Unraid Sep 19, 2020
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July 2020
- Jul 3, 2020 All NVMe SSD Array in Unraid Jul 3, 2020
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June 2020
- Jun 12, 2020 AT&T Fiber and Ubiquiti UniFi Jun 12, 2020
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May 2020
- May 22, 2020 Unraid OBS Capture, Encoding, and Streaming Server May 22, 2020
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April 2020
- Apr 26, 2020 Asus X370 Crosshair VI Hero and 128GBs of RAM Apr 26, 2020
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March 2020
- Mar 21, 2020 Unraid Multi-Streaming Server Mar 21, 2020
- Mar 16, 2020 Unraid Ryzen Server Build 2020 Mar 16, 2020
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February 2020
- Feb 9, 2020 Streamlabs OBS and OBS Project fail to go live with Aqtion AQN 107 Feb 9, 2020
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January 2020
- Jan 13, 2020 Google Fiber Gigabit Internet and Ubiquiti UniFi Jan 13, 2020
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October 2019
- Oct 13, 2019 The Dell T30 Remote VPN and Remote Backup Server Oct 13, 2019
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August 2019
- Aug 13, 2019 10Gb Networking, Unraid, and Improved Workflow Aug 13, 2019
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May 2019
- May 27, 2019 ASUS Hyper M.2 NVME PCI-E Expansion Card and Unraid May 27, 2019
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March 2019
- Mar 16, 2019 Silence Your Dell PowerEdge Server Mar 16, 2019
- Mar 16, 2019 LITEON CX2-GB1024-Q11 NVMe Benchmark Mar 16, 2019
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February 2019
- Feb 12, 2019 Block Ads at Home Feb 12, 2019
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January 2019
- Jan 25, 2019 Media Encoding Server Jan 25, 2019
- Jan 6, 2019 What was on the Toys R Us Servers Jan 6, 2019
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December 2018
- Dec 18, 2018 Unraid Server Build 2018 Dec 18, 2018
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November 2018
- Nov 28, 2018 What Hard Drive is in a Western Digital 10TB EasyStore Nov 28, 2018
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August 2018
- Aug 23, 2018 Management Workstation for my Home Lab Aug 23, 2018
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July 2018
- Jul 25, 2018 What Hard Drive is in a Western Digital 8TB EasyStore Jul 25, 2018
- Jul 13, 2018 Eaton 5PX 1500RT Jul 13, 2018
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June 2018
- Jun 18, 2018 Toys R Us Store Closing Dell R330 Hunt Jun 18, 2018
- Jun 15, 2018 Move Existing unRAID disks to a New Server Jun 15, 2018
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May 2018
- May 30, 2018 Hard Drives Randomly becoming Disabled in unRAID May 30, 2018
- May 8, 2018 unRAID 6.5 Hackintosh VM High Sierra 10.13 Guide May 8, 2018
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April 2018
- Apr 20, 2018 Update to the Rackmounted Server Apr 20, 2018
- Apr 4, 2018 State of the Homelab Apr 4, 2018
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December 2017
- Dec 29, 2017 Toshiba THNSN51T02DUK Benchmark Dec 29, 2017
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November 2017
- Nov 17, 2017 Virtualizing Bitcoin Full Nodes Nov 17, 2017
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October 2017
- Oct 31, 2017 Cheap Server Rack For Home Oct 31, 2017
- Oct 17, 2017 Rackmount Server Chassis that Supports Water Cooling Oct 17, 2017
- Oct 10, 2017 How to Change LAN Subnets on the USG Oct 10, 2017
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August 2015
- Aug 14, 2015 Bitcoin Experience Update Aug 14, 2015
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July 2014
- Jul 14, 2014 My Bitcoin Experience Jul 14, 2014