Why I store my games on HDDs instead of SSDs in 2026
…For data hoarders and gamers who play multiple 100GB+ games simultaneously, all-SSD storage might not be the most cost-effective idea. While I'm not someone who regularly plays large games…
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Data hoarding covers large-scale personal data archival and storage — bulk drives, RAID/ZFS arrays, and long-term media preservation; frequently overlaps TrueNAS, Unraid, and Plex.
The best NAS distro is getting better at virtualization, but you shouldn't use it exclusively for that
…hoard the backups and snapshots for my home server nodes, so it needs to remain out of my experimentation range. Now, I’m aware that it’s possible to recover data on…
Local LLMs weren't enough, so I use a two-tier system that keeps my sensitive stuff offline
…If you are analyzing a private financial spreadsheet or drafting a sensitive email, that information becomes part of a corporate data hoard. Once your data hits their servers, you lose control over…
I've been running Vaultwarden on my Proxmox home server for two years, and I don't miss LastPass
…Related These 6 self-hosted tools became my daily drivers after I ditched the cloud My data, my rules Securing my Vaultwarden instance was fairly easy As a hardcore data-hoarder, I…
10 quality-of-life services I self-host on my home lab
…Aside from the bookkeeping services, Firefly III can also generate graphs from your financial data, and you can export your financial records as CSV files and analyze them using a self-hosted…
Your NAS needs more RAM than you think
…The retro files manager RomM , document archiving beast Paperless-ngx , music-streaming hub Navidrome, image organizer Immich , and (most importantly) media server Jellyfin are borderline essential for data hoarders with TBs of…
My NAS has been a backup server, Jellyfin archive, and file storage for years, and it could still do so much more
…Considering my NAS serves as the central backup and data archival hub in my computing arsenal, I wouldn’t want a freak experiment to wipe out all the data I’ve accumulated…
This self-hosted presentation tool does everything Canva does, and it costs nothing
…docker run -it --name presenton -p 5000:80 -v "${PWD}\app_data:/app_data" ghcr.io/presenton/presenton:latest Creating slides with Presenton It’s completely AI-powered The way you create…
My home server now hosts my entire ebook collection, and this free container makes managing everything painless
…Sign in to your XDA account As a hardcore data hoarder, I prefer storing my media files locally instead of relying on online platforms. Thankfully, the home lab ecosystem has dozens of…
Your next storage upgrade shouldn't be an SSD — not for the next two years
…The rest of your stuff, namely movies, photos, videos, data backups, and archival data, don't benefit from residing on an SSD. If tons of such data is hoarding space on your…