Most people stop at Pi-hole, but Unbound is the privacy upgrade your home network actually needs
…I do have Pi-hole running in a TrueNAS VM inside Proxmox, so initially I thought I'd set up Unbound in TrueNAS as well, but there's no easy-to-install…
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Unraid finally dropped the USB boot stick requirement, and it's about time
…Unraid and TrueNAS . I’ve used both distributions in my home lab extensively, and Unraid definitely has some advantages over its ZFS-powered rival. However, it also had a major drawback – one…
I rebuilt my home servers from scratch, and this is the OS setup I wish I'd started with
…Another way is to use Proxmox to run TrueNAS or some other NAS software in an isolated instance alongside all your services. That's the beauty of Proxmox and the wider home…
Four bays sounds like plenty until you actually need them — here's why I ditched my NAS for a tower
…A generic x86 box running TrueNAS or Proxmox simply never puts you in a position where someone else's business decision changes what your hardware is allowed to do. Related I’ve…
I started my home lab with a full-size PC, and now I can't imagine using anything else
…Physical drive bays and a handful of SATA ports let you build a genuine ZFS or TrueNAS pool instead of dangling USB disks off a single-board computer and praying. I've…
I stopped dismissing FreeBSD after trying out its modern distros
…Speaking of TrueNAS, the FreeBSD-based Core was my go-to NAS distribution before Scale (or Community Edition, I guess) came into being. It’s no longer in active development, but iXsystems…
N100 mini PCs quietly killed the Raspberry Pi for home servers
…Pair that with its slow 1G Ethernet connection and the fact that you can’t harness TrueNAS or Unraid, and it's clear why even the most powerful RPi SBC is a…
I replaced my dual-Xeon Proxmox workstation with a modern server, and better efficiency wasn’t the only benefit
…In fact, I even spun up a TrueNAS virtual machine with 16GB of memory and ran a couple of commands to pass the HBA card and, by extension, the two HDDs I…
I built a NAS with enterprise gear and learned why it costs $1 per day to run
…There's also the case of running your own operating system, which can be in the form of TrueNAS, Proxmox, or some other OS. Enterprise hardware can even come rocking support for…
Why I bought a 16TB HDD instead of an 8TB SSD
…And replacing drives in TrueNAS, which just so happens to be my primary storage NAS OS, is straightforward enough that larger HDDs can be rotated in without causing much fuss. That said…