HP DL380 G5 – First Look
Hey, Krafting's here! Today, we'll take a tour of a somewhat old HP G5 server. This is an HP DL380 G5 is a 2U server from around 2005.
Krafting's Lab
A guy blogging about homelabbing
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Fixing the cable-mess of my Homelab Rack – Part 1
Hey, Krafting’s here! I wish you all a happy new year and a lot of good things in 2025! Today, I wanted to start 2025 by fixing one of the most annoying things in the world: Cables! The Context Last year I purchased a 25U rack, and it has been serving me really well since [ ]
Entreprise SSDs are something else
Hey, Krafting s here! Today on my blog we ll talk about SSDs. You might say that there isn t much to talk about here, but if you ve never seen entreprise SSDs, you might get very surprised. We will also compare them to a standard and recent cheap-ish SSD. And I m talking purely about hardware, we won t talk [ ]
IBM xSeries eServer 346 #1 – First Look
Hey! Krafting here. Today I ll write about another really old server that I got for free. It s a IBM eServer 346. This server is heavy, loud old and dirty. I ll make a few blog posts about this guy, as it caused me a lot of trouble, but when it finally worked, this was really satisfying. [ ]
Random Rail Story #1
Welcome everyone, today this blog post will be way shorter than usual. I m going to talk about some rails I got for free with a rackable 1U server case. I ll focus on the rails today. I ll talk a bit about the server but not too much. You might be wondering: But why? And this is [ ]