Storage
Build a DIY NAS with TrueNAS or Unraid on a Mini PC
Building a NAS yourself comes down to two decisions: what box to put it on, and whether to…
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Storage
Storage
Best NAS for Home, Self-Hosting, and Plex (2026)
Picking a NAS in 2026 is a different decision than it was even two years ago. The brand…
Storage
Best NAS Hard Drives for 2026: WD Red Pro vs Seagate IronWolf
Hard drives are the one NAS component you cannot cheap out on and the one that costs the…
Storage
CMR vs SMR Drives for NAS: Why SMR Wrecks RAID Rebuilds
Buy the wrong hard drive for a NAS and everything looks fine until the day a disk dies.…
Storage
Best SSD and NVMe for Servers and a Homelab
Two consumer SSDs sat in the same server. One acknowledged 642 durable writes a second, the other 2,024,…
Storage
NVMe vs SATA SSD for a Proxmox Datastore: PLP and Endurance
The fastest SSD on the spec sheet is often the worst choice for a Proxmox node. I learned…
Proxmox
ZFS RAID Levels on Proxmox VE: Stripe, Mirror, RAIDZ1/2/3
The RAID level you pick when you create a ZFS pool on Proxmox is permanent for that group…
Proxmox
Build a 3-Node Hyperconverged Ceph Cluster on Proxmox VE
Hyperconverged means the same three servers run both the virtual machines and the storage those machines live on.…
Proxmox
Proxmox VE Storage Backends Compared: LVM, ZFS, Ceph, NFS, iSCSI
Proxmox VE gives you six storage types, and the one you pick decides three things you cannot easily…
Containers
Install Filestash: Self-Hosted File Manager for Any Storage
Most self-hosted file managers want to own your data. They give you a tidy web UI on the…
Containers
Filestash Cheat Sheet: Admin Console, Backends and Config
Filestash hides a lot of power behind a deceptively simple file grid. Once you move past the first…
Cloud
Install Nextcloud on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Nextcloud is the mature self-hosted answer to Dropbox, Google Drive, and iCloud. You own the storage, you set…