Since building and blogging about my first network attached storage (NAS) computer way back in 2012 and then writing all my subsequent DIY NAS build blogs, I’ve tried quite a few different cases when building these machines. Beyond that, I’ve stared at the specifications of countless other models of cases looking for things that fit my criteria: typically something small and can fit at least six 3.5” hard drives.| Butter, What?!
My NAS is a virtual machine hosted on my home KVM server. My KVM server has a RAID 10 array composed of two 4 TB drives. This gives me a measly 4 TB …| blog.patshead.com
It has been a year since I wrote about my first DSLR, a Canon Rebel XSi. By the time I bought that camera, it was already old, roughed up, and way …| blog.patshead.com
UPDATE: I used this hardware for two years. It was a fantastic build, and it performed exactly as I expected it to. The AMD 5350 and 5370 processors …| blog.patshead.com
I talk about how I arrived at the decision to buy Non-ECC RAM for my DIY NAS.| blog.briancmoses.com
The motivation I’ve been thinking about upgrading all year. I almost did back in January, and I wish I had decided to do it then. Memory …| blog.patshead.com
I’m not new to the world of Infiniband. I bought a pair of 20-Gigabit Mellanox Infiniband cards in 2016 to connect my desktop PC to my virtual …| blog.patshead.com
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
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
I built a home server to host my development VMs and went a bit overboard.| mtlynch.io