Build a Ceph Storage Cluster for Your Home Lab (3-node, NVMe, 10GbE)
A Ceph cluster used to mean a rack, a 10GbE switch the size of a pizza box, and…
A Ceph cluster used to mean a rack, a 10GbE switch the size of a pizza box, and…
Most storage guides start with a single box. Ceph breaks that habit on the first page, because Ceph…
A NAS build is really one decision wearing a lot of disguises: how many drives do you need…
Before you buy a faster switch, the real question is how much of your homelab actually needs more…
You’re sizing a homelab box and the RAM question is the one that actually decides what you can…
A homelab UPS has one job your desk UPS does not: hold the load steady long enough for…
Building a NAS yourself comes down to two decisions: what box to put it on, and whether to…
Picking a NAS in 2026 is a different decision than it was even two years ago. The brand…
Hard drives are the one NAS component you cannot cheap out on and the one that costs the…
Buy the wrong hard drive for a NAS and everything looks fine until the day a disk dies.…
Two consumer SSDs sat in the same server. One acknowledged 642 durable writes a second, the other 2,024,…
The fastest SSD on the spec sheet is often the worst choice for a Proxmox node. I learned…