Got Questions for Zachary Perry? Ask Them Here – 45Homelab Q&A

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Hi everyone,

We’re planning an upcoming Q&A video with Zachary Perry for our social media channels, and we’d love to get the community involved.

If you have questions about 45Homelab systems, hardware, software, storage setups, or anything related to our platforms, this is your chance to ask them! We’ll be gathering questions from this thread and answering as many as we can in the video.

Some examples if you’re looking for ideas:

  • Hardware choices and configurations

  • Storage setups (ZFS, Ceph, etc.)

  • Homelab best practices

  • Performance tuning

  • Networking

  • Future features or ideas

  • Anything you’ve always wanted to ask Zach or the 45Homelab team

Just reply to this thread with your questions, and we’ll include them in the Q&A.

We’re looking forward to seeing what the community wants to know!

Thanks, everyone!

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This is more of a question about production, but I thought that the HL15s were produced in the main place in Canada? I was told my order was shipping from North Carolina though and other mentions that you could go there to see a system in person before purchase. Was just the homelab production moved or is this just another location for them if they expanded to the United States?

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They have been working very hard to get production running in the United States for a few years now. It’s a secondary manufacturing facility to the one in Northern Canada. Faster lead times and much cheaper shipping I would imagine to a large market here in the United States.

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I’ve got I guess just one easy process and procedure question more than a technical one. I bought an hl15 that was pre installed with an os but it’s like rocky 9 and running kind of an ancient kernel …. I just want to make sure that since it shipped with an os that there wouldn’t be warranty concerns if I end up needing support for some sort of hardware failure later if I reinstall with a modern Linux distribution of my choice

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It’s a non issue. Their philosophy is open source and no vendor lock in. They aren’t going to say you broke their hardware by running some other Linux distro.

See, eg;

Although if you run Windows 11 all bets are off. :grinning_face: Nobody wants to support that mess.

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