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insanebits on Oct 26, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Building a Home Lab for Offensive Security and Sec...

Why would you really need physical machines for linux and windows, you can always virtualize clients and run dual boot mac/windows or single thinkpad with win/linux dual boot.

If budget is tight used servers are great value, for example del R710 is cheap with plenty of horsepower. Downside being space and sound.

jeffmcjunkin on Oct 26, 2017 [–]

I prefer getting a really powerful workstation and doing virtualization from there. Example: http://natex.us/enthoo-128kit

(No affiliation with Natex, but I've bought that kit and I enjoy the overkill of 16 cores and 128gb of RAM)

hackerboos on Oct 26, 2017 | [–]

Price has jumped a bit from your presentation.

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