Sizing a NAS for a small family archive
Spinning up zfs on consumer hardware mostly trades CPU for peace of mind. Here is what a year of scrubbing taught me about drive selection and record sizes.
Notes on infrastructure, homelabs and the occasional networking rabbit hole.
Spinning up zfs on consumer hardware mostly trades CPU for peace of mind. Here is what a year of scrubbing taught me about drive selection and record sizes.
Idle timeouts, proxy_protocol mismatches, and the difference between flush and buffering. A checklist that fixed a flaky dashboard for me.
A server name only helps if the certificate and the address agree. Notes on picking a decoy that will not trip your own monitoring.
2026-06-21 · 8 min readSnapshot schedules, restore drills, and the spreadsheet that finally made me honest about recovery time.
2026-05-08 · 5 min read