Hey folks, a newbie here. A friend of my works for a company that is giving him few enterprise servers, switches, etc for free!!! to avoid paying for e-wate. He asked me if I would like to have some. Please advise on if it is worth it to get them or not and why. I know they are power sucker, but the temptation is BIG lol.. Any advise would be appreciated. thanks Server: Dell T430 x 2 (proxmox and Truenas) Dell R630 x 1 (good to run PFSense?) Switches: Dell s4810 x 2 Dell N3048P-on x1 (good for POE cams and any other IOT) Extreme x460-48p x1

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Everyone @David Vincent had a great idea to create a repo for all the challenge docs, files, configs, code, etc. I have created an official "HomeLabExplorers" repo here: https://github.com/brandonleegit/homelabexplorers.git As David mentioned, this will also serve the purpose of ones getting familiar with Git as well, with their home lab projects. I have created the repo that contains a "challenges" folder. So you will just need to clone it down and create pull requests to have your code merged in. I think possibly a good idea would be to use your HomeLabExplorers name or any name for your subfolder underneath and maybe create folders for "challenge 1" challenge 2, etc. However, let me know your thoughts as this is a work in progress. Thanks Everyone!