[TEST] Five Lessons from Building Our First 10-inch Homelab Rack
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Last month one of our engineers finally moved a small pile of Raspberry Pi boards from a desk drawer into a proper RackMate T1 10-inch rack. The build itself took an afternoon; the planning took longer, and that is exactly the point of this post. Here are the five lessons that saved us the most time — plus the two mistakes we made anyway.
