I stopped organizing my NAS like a PC, and everything got easier to back up and maintain
…Don't treat your NAS like a PC But it's fine to use it as a server A NAS is a powerful tool in your home lab and smart home arsenal…
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6 things your NAS can do that have nothing to do with storage
2d agoRepurposing an old PC as a NAS seemed smart until I checked the power bill
2d agoI stopped checking my home lab backups manually after Claude Code helped me build these checks
6d agoI used a LattePanda Sigma with 32GB of RAM as my ‘too much power’ home lab box, and immediately found work for it
1w agoN100 mini PCs quietly killed the Raspberry Pi for home servers
…In the meantime, Intel’s N100 processor has become the de-facto king of budget home labs – to the point where it’s cheaper to grab a mini-PC powered by this…
My entire homelab runs on an 8-year-old laptop most people would throw away
…Related 9 Docker containers that run 24/7 on my $100 mini PC Maximum value budget homelab. Why I chose a laptop over a server Built-in UPS, low power, zero noise…
My NAS ran out of space, but the real problem wasn't the size of my drives
…This hypervisor platform with low-power compact systems is great at running the show, storing app data locally, and relying on the NAS to act more like cold storage. This also had…
Building my own NAS taught me why prebuilt enclosures are holding you back
…Sign in to your XDA account After looking at my current home lab setup, it's sometimes hard to imagine I was firmly in the prebuilt network-attached storage (NAS) camp. It…
The NAS feature I use every day isn't storage, it's Docker
…Related 9 Docker containers that run 24/7 on my $100 mini PC Maximum value budget homelab. When using my NAS for storage, it was neglected My existing drives and cloud storage…
Your old laptop is too weak for Windows 11, but somehow strong enough for containers, VMs, and a homelab
…Since most of your tools, like a media server or a local cloud storage system like NextCloud , live on it, having a battery backup is great. A small-duration power outage can…
My homelab SSD was silently failing, and one monitoring tool caught it before the other
…The drive was healthy, but there were numbers that made me rethink how I monitor my storage on my homelab server. SMART data told a story I wasn't watching The warning…
TrueNAS 26 is finally catching up to Proxmox, but my home lab isn't switching
…And that's running with connections to a single NAS enclosure, powered by TrueNAS. Local storage on the Proxmox nodes is important, but it's not vital to the operation of the…
6 reasons I'm buying HDDs, not SSDs
…For cold storage I'm parking data I rarely use on airgapped devices Any digital storage that's going to be either disconnected from power for long periods of time or airgapped…