I spent $420 building a 20TB DIY NAS to use as an off-site backup - 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
I don’t know if I am really properly beating on this thing as hard as I can, but I am doing my best with the hard drives I have available! …| blog.patshead.com
It has been about eight weeks since I upgraded to core of my home network. I added a Mokerlink 2.5-gigabit switch to both my network cupboard and my …| blog.patshead.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
The hardware running Proxmox around my homelab is a little slow or a little outdated. I have an Intel N100 mini PC and a Ryzen 3550H mini PC here at …| blog.patshead.com
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
What have Pat and Brian been up to lately? To find out you can check out the latest episodes of The Butter, What?! Show Of course you can. There is …| blog.patshead.com
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
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?!
I am writing way too many blogs about mini PCs lately, so I definitely wasn’t planning on publishing this. As I was staring at the graph, I …| blog.patshead.com
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 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
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
I have been doing a bad job. I have been neglecting the Butter, What?! blog. I haven’t posted anything here since I bought my Bambu A1 Mini in December. The good news is that everything I said about the Bambu A1 Mini in December is still true today, so I suppose I at least did a good job there, but I need to get back to posting here.| Butter, What?!
A suprisingly affordable DIY NAS featuring TrueNAS SCALE, an Intel Celeron N5105 CPU, 32GB of DDR4 RAM, 2x 250GB NVMe SSDs, and room for 7 hard drives (5x 3.5-inch and 2x 2.5 inch).| blog.briancmoses.com
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
