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My evaluation of an interesting barebones NAS featuring: two 3.5-inch hard drive bays, a M.2 NVMe 2280 slot, an Intel N100 CPU, one DDR4 SODIMM, and two 2.5Gbps NICs.| blog.briancmoses.com
That title should be longer. I don’t want to exclude 4-bay and 8-bay USB SATA enclosures, but I didn’t want to waste so many extra words in the front of the title!| Patshead.com Blog
It has been almost a year since I wrote about using a $140 Intel N100 mini PC as a game console and Steam-streaming device in the living room. I don’t know what part of this arrangement tickles so many people, but that post has been in my top 10 most read blogs ever since it was published. This is weird to me, because I am not a gaming blog, and my game-related blog posts don’t usually get many views.| Patshead.com Blog
When I first migrated my virtualized homelab stuff from my old Debian with KVM and virt-manager to a mini PC running Proxmox, I knew I would want to eventually have some sort of cluster manager. It didn’t take long before I had Proxmox running on a second Mini PC at home, and this week I am migrating my off-site Raspberry Pi’s Seafile server to another mini PC running Proxmox.| Patshead.com Blog
The simple answer is no. The Intel N100 is slow and only has single-channel RAM. You’re not going to get any work done chatting at a reasonably …| blog.patshead.com
I was over at my friend Brian Moses’s house for pizza last night, and as soon as I walked in the door, he handed me one of the NanoKVM units …| blog.patshead.com
I ordered and installed a pair of MokerLink 2.5-gigabit Ethernet switches in my home about two weeks ago. I put an 8-port managed switch with one 10- …| blog.patshead.com
A two-for-one DIY NAS build blog! I detail the components that I would pick for 2024's DIY NAS and EconoNAS builds. Which one will be your favorite?| briancmoses.com
I am changing course again. I used to have a small 40-gigabit Infiniband network segment in my home office. This was necessary at the time because I …| blog.patshead.com
I very nearly typed “so you don’t have to” as the end of this blog post’s title, but that wouldn’t be the least bit …| blog.patshead.com
Over twelve years ago, I built my very first DIY NAS. At the time, I had a very specific and unconventional idea in mind for my DIY NAS to be: small, with a passively cooled CPU, room for about 6 SATA drives, without breaking the bank. A bit surprisingly, I stumbled on a discounted motherboard that met this criteria, the ASUS E35M1-I Fusion. The motherboard met my criteria and it wound up being incredibly inexpensive, so naturally I bought it!| Butter, What?!
Let’s get this out of the way immediately. A mini PC with an Intel N100 processor is almost definitely the wrong device to plug into your TV to …| blog.patshead.com
Was it ACTUALLY cheaper to buy a second mini PC than to upgrade the RAM in my existing N100 server? It depends on how you look at it. In the most …| blog.patshead.com
I shop for a new Android tablet a couple of times each year. I don’t want a giant iPad-sized tablet. I want a tablet that is much bigger than …| blog.patshead.com
I have had Proxmox running on my Intel N100 mini PC for at least a week so far. It hadn’t been doing any real work until I migrated my first …| blog.patshead.com
I expected to write this blog AFTER all my virtual machines were migrated to the new hardware, but I am impatient, and I am recording enough …| blog.patshead.com
I am a fan of Dropbox-style file sync services. I’m not a fan of letting someone else have the keys to access my encrypted data. Back in 2013, …| blog.patshead.com
My evaluation of an interesting barebones NAS featuring: two 3.5-inch hard drive bays, a M.2 NVMe 2280 slot, an Intel N100 CPU, one DDR4 SODIMM, and two 2.5Gbps NICs.| blog.briancmoses.com
I implement an off-site backup using a Mini PC, a 20TB USB HDD, TrueNAS SCALE, Tailscale, and some space at Pat's house.| blog.briancmoses.com
The title may almost be a lie! I feel that all of Bambu’s printers are a good value, and the Bambu P1P, P1S, and X1C are also fantastic printers for both beginners and veterans. If you have the budget, and you need the bigger printer, you should definitely invest in one of those. If your needs are smaller, and your budget is smaller, it is tough to go wrong with the Bambu A1 Mini.| Butter, What?!
It was about eleven years ago when I helped my friend Brian Moses run Ethernet to every room in his house. Once he decided that the router and …| blog.patshead.com
