HL4 and HL8 Now Live for Pre-Sale!

Hey everyone,

Another exciting topic to share! We know there’s been some chatter in other topics, but wanted to officially add it here!

The time has come, you can now pre-order your HL8 and HL4 premium servers in the 45HomeLab store!

Designed with the homelab community in mind, these open, accessible, and powerful servers are compact enough to fit comfortably on any homelabber’s desk while delivering all your homelab needs.

HL8

The HL8 homelab server brings enterprise-level architecture into your homelab, offering high performance in a compact form. With high-capacity media storage and seamless streaming capabilities, the HL8 is designed, manufactured, and assembled in North America. Its tool-less construction, built with steel and screws—no rivets—ensures durability and ease of use.

The HL8 is available in the following three options:

HL8 - Fully Built & Burned In

Fully Assembled, Tested, and ready to use.

HL8 - Chassis, Backplane & PSU

Steel Chassis, Direct-Wired Backplane, Data Cables, 500W ATX PSU.

HL8 - Chassis, Chassis & Backplane

Steel chassis with our direct-wired backplane.

HL4

Similar to the HL8, the HL4 delivers enterprise-grade architecture to your homelab offering powerful media storage and streaming capabilities in an even more compact design that integrates seamlessly into your homelab. Designed, manufactured, and assembled in North America, the HL4 features a tool-less construction with durable steel and screw assembly.

The HL4 is available in the following options:

HL4 - Fully Built & Burned In

Fully Assembled, Tested, and ready to use

HL4 - Chassis, Backplane & PSU

Steel Chassis, Direct-Wired Backplane, Data Cables, 500W ATX PSU

HL4 - Chassis, Chassis & Backplane

Steel Chassis with our Direct-Wired Backplane

Check out the video below to hear what Jeff from Craft Computing had to say about the HL8 and HL4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IitwrXJuKzw&t=201s

To pre order yours, visit the 45HomeLab Store

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I am already talking people into these vs synologies :grin:

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I have looked at these and they look nice. I think the product page should display that it appears only to support mini-itx motherboards. Maybe an option to allow more pci slots through the use of extenders. I found a mini-itx board that has a 16x slot that can be bifurcated into 2 8x slots. This is useful is you wanted a specific type of network (I perfer sfp+ with fiber than copper).

Either way I plan to buy one to use as a backup solution at a remote location as it doesn’t require a rack. My homelab, I have racks so I’m looking for rack mount solutions there.

which motherboard is this one that you’ve found?

This was the board I was looking at. It’s started in the video you can bifurcation to 2 pcie slots.

https://www.amazon.com/Mini-ITX-Motherboard-LGA1700-Support-Processor/dp/B0D2PC3PTW?th=1&linkCode=ll1&tag=brisblo0b-20&linkId=660fbf900e1b6839b7dad83df548384a&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl

The source I used to find this board is this:

The board above is N13.

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