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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This useful app made my self-hosted music library work flawlessly in Android Auto
…That includes Plex , which also serves up all my videos. It turns out, Symfonium supports all of these servers. This means I can comfortably swap out my server of choice while maintaining…
Jellyfin's core team just walked out, and I'm still not going back to Plex
…run your own server, keep control of it , and stop worrying about which feature Plex might put behind another subscription next. That makes Jellyfin's current leadership mess pretty uncomfortable to watch…
4 Jellyfin plugins that make it feel like a new platform
…Four, in particular, shifts Jellyfin from a functional media server into something that’s more polished. Related I thought I needed a NAS, then I used this device for Plex instead If…
Synology's apps are why people stay, not the hardware, and that's finally changing
…Sure, Synology’s hardware has always been pricey, but the plug-and-play experience and stable nature of DSM made its premium NAS servers worth the extra cost. But with its rivals…
My entire homelab runs on an 8-year-old laptop most people would throw away
…Why I chose a laptop over a server Built-in UPS, low power, zero noise I was already using an old 2-bay Synology NAS (2 cores) to run services like Plex…
Your NAS is becoming a single point of failure, and consolidating everything onto it is the reason why
…It also makes sense to some to run everything on the NAS. With enough computing power, TrueNAS can handle containers and virtualized instances, effectively transforming the NAS into a full-blown server…
A modern NAS replaced my smart home hub, backup solution, and media server
…The NAS combines my media and photos and makes them useful. For media, the NAS acts as a personal server. I store my library of Blu-rays locally and stream it to…
I gave my NAS a job Synology never advertises, and now it runs my house
…As I mentioned earlier, a NAS consumes less power dramatically compared to most high-powered servers, and a NAS is also designed to be always on. It solves the uptime problem that…
XPEnology gave me Synology's operating system on my own hardware, and now I can't justify the official price
…I even used the Virtual Machine Manager to deploy an Ubuntu Server as a VM, but considering it is a NAS, not an experimentation server node, I didn’t go too far…