Prime Day slashes this x86 NAS down to $240 — a steal for backing up TBs of media without cloud subscriptions
… Storage-wise, the F2-425 can house a maximum of 60TB of data, with each drive bay supporting up to 30TB hard drives. …
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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.
My NAS does more than store files, and most people are barely using theirs
… It’s a data hoarding server that runs 24/7, not a tinkering node While we’re on the subject of VMs, let me add that I don’t consider my NAS just another experimentation rig for my DIY projects. …
This free self-hosted app turned my Jellyfin server into a YouTube archive overnight
… Related These 7 self-hosted apps cater to my data-hoarding needs From managing my images to storing essential backups, these apps satisfy the data-hoarding gremlin in my head Pinchflat is great for bulk-downloading YouTube media And I can filter out videos when I don't want to archive entire channe… …
I built a retro gaming library on my NAS, and RomM makes it feel like Plex for games
… RomM also solves the metadata problem on the side. I've tried a lot of tools over the years, including bespoke Raspberry Pi setups that claim to solve a similar problem, but metadata management has always been finicky, to say the least. …
I turned an old laptop into a personal app server, and it's outperforming my expectations
… Related These 7 self-hosted apps cater to my data-hoarding needs From managing my images to storing essential backups, these apps satisfy the data-hoarding gremlin in my head BentoPDF fulfills my PDF needs No subscription required Browsers have basic PDF preview options. …
The best NAS distro dropped a public beta for its new update, and it feels more like Proxmox with each release
… The former powers my local and remote Network-Attached Storage servers, houses most of my network shares, and runs services that tend to be on the data-hoarding side of the spectrum. …
I started using my local LLMs and an MCP server to manage my NAS – it's surprisingly powerful (and safe)
… Most utilities available in this repo involve querying my TrueNAS setup, and the only damage it can do is delete my NAS shares, not their underlying data pools. …
Self-hosted photos are just the beginning — your book collection belongs on the same server
… Related These 7 self-hosted apps cater to my data-hoarding needs From managing my images to storing essential backups, these apps satisfy the data-hoarding gremlin in my head Your books deserve the same treatment as your photos Self-hosting is about owning your content The main reason I felt compel… …
Claude Cowork freed up 60GB on my laptop by finding files I completely forgot about
… I still thought there's a lot more data that could be cleaned up, so I sent the following prompt to Claude: I'm sure there must be more stuff hoarding space! …
I stopped using Obsidian like a notes app, and started using it like a database
… Dataview completely changed how I looked at the app . Dataview is a community plugin that essentially turns your plain-text Markdown files into a local database. …