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Used enterprise DAS enclosures are the storage hack nobody talks about enough
Your next storage upgrade might be hiding in a dusty server room!
Streaming games from a NAS seemed like a great idea until I hit these 4 problems
Surprisingly doable, occasionally painful, always weird!
My new NAS only turns on once a month. Here's why that's not as crazy as it sounds
Not all storage advice applies to everyone, and this proves it
6 super-easy ways to repurpose a broken old laptop
Your old laptop has more life in it than you might think
Why I always "burn in" new HDDs before adding them to my NAS
You need to stress 'em a bit before you fire them up.
Stop leaving hard drives in a drawer: Why 'Bit Rot' is destroying your data
Why your unplugged hard drive is slowly deleting itself
Raspberry Pi locked RAM upgrades to stop scammers, but DIY users are bearing the brunt
Protecting buyers from shady hardware while limiting the tinkering freedom for the maker community.
I built a Raspberry Pi "Black Box" that records everything on my home network
Because apparently I needed to know everything.
I let AI handle my Plex transcode and saved 8.5TB without lifting a finger
A five-node Tdarr setup processed thousands of files while preserving the content I actually watch.
This Plex add-on brought back the best part of old television
My Plex library now offers the slower, simpler television experience I remembered.
I've run hundreds of Docker containers, but these 5 have never needed fixing
These 5 Docker containers are the least demanding part of my homelab
I ditched my NAS OS for Ubuntu Desktop, and I’m never going back
Why settle for a restrictive storage dashboard? I replaced my specialized NAS software with Ubuntu and its better at almost everything.
Your NAS isn't just for Plex—here's 4 other services you should try
Put all that idle processing power to work.
I tried to hack my own network from the outside and learned why port forwarding is such a security faux pas
I was pretty confident about my network. Then I looked at it the way a stranger would!
My decade-old Xeon server lost to a budget UGREEN NAS in every way that matters
New NAS hardware made my former bargain difficult to justify.
ORICO's 4-bay DAS proves redundant storage doesn't need to be complicated
Fast transfers and flexible RAID modes make this more than a basic drive enclosure.
I bought used enterprise HDDs cheap and learned the hard way why they're risky
Sometimes the cheapest storage is the storage you spend an entire weekend trying to convince your server to accept!