Your Raspberry Pi will outlast your PC if you stop treating it like one
…Get a proper power supply before it bumps off the Pi Matching the power requirements is vital Here’s the thing: Pi boards don't come with a charger. You need to…
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6 things your NAS can do that have nothing to do with storage
3d agoRepurposing an old PC as a NAS seemed smart until I checked the power bill
3d agoI stopped checking my home lab backups manually after Claude Code helped me build these checks
1w agoI used a LattePanda Sigma with 32GB of RAM as my ‘too much power’ home lab box, and immediately found work for it
1w agoI tested TrueNAS, Unraid, and OpenMediaVault to find the perfect NAS OS, and there's a clear winner
…NAS the most essential part of my home lab, as it houses snapshots from every system I own, archives old media, runs the storage-heavy services, and sends backups to a remote…
A used Lenovo M720q destroys the Raspberry Pi 5 in every way that matters
…Compounding the cost of the Raspberry Pi 5 with a power supply, case, storage, and other accessories raises the overall price tag. When you want to assemble one with an aluminum case…
Your home lab's biggest mistake might be running everything in LXCs
…The mistake is treating them as the default home for everything just because they’re neat. Proxmox Proxmox is a powerful home lab platform, but make sure you're using its features…
I replaced 6 paid subscriptions with a homelab on an old laptop — here's the full stack
…The most important issue when setting up a homelab server is the storage solution; since it was a laptop, I couldn’t stack it with multiple HDDs. Then I cleaned up my…
I replaced over $1,000 in cloud subscriptions with one small home server
…Jellyfin for media streaming , Nextcloud for cloud storage , Immich to replace Google Photos , Holesail to replace Proton VPN , Home Assistant to manage my smart home , Gitea to store code , Open WebUI and…
Why I bought a 16TB HDD instead of an 8TB SSD
…An uninterruptible power supply (UPS) should almost always be present and connected if you're running NAS or building out a home lab. These can trigger hardware failures that could result in…
Unraid finally dropped the USB boot stick requirement, and it's about time
…Sign in to your XDA account Just like the home server ecosystem, the Network-Attached Storage landscape is riddled with cool distributions, packages, and web UIs you can use to build your…
I stopped dismissing FreeBSD after trying out its modern distros
…OPNsense is a powerful router OS for security-conscious folks Even its rival, pfSense, is built on good ol’ FreeBSD Ask any home labber about their networking stack, and they’re bound…
My Raspberry Pi NAS taught me that cheap storage isn't worth the compromise
…A Raspberry Pi can share files just fine, but scaling storage is where the cracks start to show. Once you're relying on USB adapters, external enclosures, and extra power bricks, your…