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Hot-swappable hard drives seemed brilliant in the '90sâhere's why Iomega Jaz never stood a chance
The Jaz drive wasn't music to anyone's ears.
Everyone says my NAS needs an SSD cache (it doesn't)
It's a cool thing to have. But a worthy investment? Maybe not.
I stopped paying for Google Photos the moment I discovered this self-hosted alternative
Your massive photo library is the perfect excuse to buy a NAS
I tried to ditch cloud storage for self-hosting. Three drives and a mini PC later, I gave up
There are time sucks, and then there are time sucks.
Your SSD is doing extra work you don't know aboutâhere's how to fix it
Your SSD needs more than just free space.
Closets are killing your NAS performance, even the fanless ones
Your NAS is throttling itself in that closet
Stop ignoring disk partitionsâ4 reasons they are more useful on a 4TB SSD than ever before
Why partitioning your largest drives actually makes sense now (when it didn't before)
Stop wasting drives on RAID 6âwhy I ditched it for RAID 5 in my homelab
I ditched RAID 6 for RAID 5, and I'm not looking back
The storage format that costs $5 per terabyteâbut requires a $10,000 drive
This is the storage format every datahoarder wants to use (but can't)
My NAS cache drive crashed everythingâhere's what I did wrong
I thought a cache drive would supercharge my NAS, but it created an unexpected bottleneck instead
RAM disks are insanely fast, but I'm not using oneâand neither should you
RAM disks easily beat PCIe 5.0 SSDs, but I still won't touch them
RAID 0 is a data-loss nightmare: Here is the only reason I still run it in my homelab
RAID 0 isn't worth itâunless you're backing it up every night
Your NAS has USB ports: 4 practical uses most people miss
Stop leaving your NAS USB ports emptyâ4 brilliant ways to instantly upgrade your home server
I gave my old SSD one job: Be the test dummy for everything risky
Why my spare SSD is where all my questionable PC experiments go
Stop buying consumer SSDs: Used enterprise drives have petabytes left to give
The used enterprise SSD market is the PC building hack nobody talks about enough
I turned an old HDD into cold storage for files that matter, and it changed how I organize everything
Stop hoarding files on your main drive: Build a digital attic instead
These 4 NAS mistakes are wasting your electricity (and your money)
Your NAS is quietly running up your power bill, but here's how to fix it
Don't throw away your old 120GB SATA SSDâhere's what I actually use mine for
That tiny SATA drive you forgot about is perfect for one job most people overlook
My single homelab server became a nightmare, so I split it into eight
I stopped running everything on one server, and my homelab is finally stable
Your NAS has a second Ethernet portâ6 reasons you actually need to use it
That second Ethernet port on your NAS isn't just redundancyâit's a security upgrade