My curiosity about the impacts of the Presidential tariffs incited me to place an order for a Topton motherboard from AliExpress. I will be sharing updates as that orders progresses.| blog.briancmoses.com
A diminuitive, TrueNAS SCALE machine featuring: 92TB of storage (90TB of HDD, 2TB of SSD), an Intel N100 CPU, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and 10Gbps networking for under $1,750!| blog.briancmoses.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?!
Am I trying to win Brian Moses’s DIY NAS 2023 giveaway?! Have you seen this thing? It looks both amazing and adorable, and it packs so much …| 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 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
A small form factor, 4-bay DIY NAS featuring a Celeron N5105 CPU, 16GB of RAM, 128GB NVMe SSD, 2.5Gbps networking and TrueNAS SCALE for under $400.| blog.briancmoses.com
Someone building their first NAS joined our Discord server recently, and they are in an extremely common conundrum. They are planning to run TrueNAS, but they don’t have enough room in their budget to fill their server with giant hard disks. He isn’t the first person to encounter this conundrum.| 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