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Question for IT/Security homelabs in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

so more cores it'd imagine?

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Question for IT/Security homelabs (alien.top)
 

For it/security related homelabs, do you often use many vms with little workloads or a few vms with heavy workloads. I'm currently trying to pick between a i5-8700 and i7-9700 cpu for a new homelab setup. Thank you.

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Planning on buying a new homelab pc for learning sysadmin related task. (alien.top)
 

Title. I'm going to be spinning up multiple vm's and was considering buying this dell optiplex 5060 sff. I do plan on eventually maxing out the ram and upgrading to a 1tb hard drive. Is it worth the buy?

Is this a good buy for a long-term homelab used primarily for virtualization. in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

would it be better to pass up on 6 cores for 4 cores on a non T cpu?

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Is this a good buy for a long-term homelab used primarily for virtualization. (alien.top)
 

For context, I'm a computer science student learning IT on the side and am currently on the search for a decent mini pc to get started with learning sysadmin related tasks. So spinning up vm's and learning active directory, networking, some cli and powershell scripting, etc, etc. Is this mini pc a good starting point in terms of it's CPU to which I can eventually upgrade the ram and hard disk space.

I'm also on the fence about selling my MBP and using those funds (about 1k usd) to buy a decent spec'd thinkpad or a dell latitude. Would this be a better idea or would I be utilizing a company laptop anyway? Any laptop suggestions will also be appreciated. Thank You.