Builds

Supermicro chassis are often used by firewall and network appliance companies. Some chassis may need slight/moderate modification, but I’ve done my best to find ones that don’t need much work. If anything, you just nee…

[NAS KILLER 5.0 BUILD GUIDE] [JOIN THE DISCORD] 1. Objective Update the NAS Killer line of builds to iteration 5.0. Moving on to socket 1150, we should be able to see better performance and power usage, with only a sli…

[JOIN THE DISCORD] OTiS - Off The Shelf All of the components in this guide are readily available from your favorite retailer(s)! serverbuilds legend says this is the last thing you see before you die. Overview S…

Introduction The purpose of this guide is to give an overview of hardware transcoding with Plex. The guide will also provide recommendations for adding hardware transcoding to your existing setup. Ultimately, the recomm…

Hey everyone, found some really good deals on ebay and thought I would throw something together for ya’ll. This guide will outline the deals that I found. For the rest of the parts and information, please refer to the m…

[JOIN THE DISCORD] Special thank-you to all of the moderators, trustworthy, and Patreon supporters who provide valuable feedback and put up with me on a daily basis. Objective & Overview Create the end-all guide f…

[NAS KILLER 4.0 BUILD GUIDE] [JOIN THE DISCORD] Objective Update the NAS Killer line of builds to iteration 4.0. Moving on to socket 1155, we should be able to see much better performance and power usage, while mainta…

0. Overview We will be using a combination of hardware and software to remote-ize your gaming setup! You’ll be able to access your gaming “rig” anywhere, on a variety of devices. Since we’re all social distancing, why…

Join the Discord! Overview This guide is an extension of the OTiS build guide. Basically, it’s an off-the-shelf NAS using (mostly) brand new parts, with the latest technology like Intel QuickSync and native NVMe s…