I’ve been working on filling all the bays in my Fractal Node 804 case for months now. I actually filled it awhile ago, but accidentally killed 4 out of 5 brand-new WD drives by using the wrong SATA power connector cable from my modular PSU (note: turns out even…
As a homelab enthusiast and datahoarder, my network is not what most people would consider "normal". I have needs...or at least I have created needs that I have to find a solution for. After a year of using the AT&T provided Arris BGW210-700 in IP Passthrough mode along…
Every day my server runs a backup script, uploading any new files and changes to Google Drive. Here's the (sanitized) script: Things to note: * I have a gigabit fiber home internet connection, so bandwidth throttling is not a concern to me. There are rclone flags for bandwidth throttling if that…
Alas, the $80 10TB drives will not materialize anytime soon. Amazon cancelled all orders, and appear to have issued $20 conciliatory gift cards in apology. I spent a few minutes on a support chat trying to talk my way into the discount to no avail. Sad face. But hey -…
A couple posts ago I mentioned that my Plex database backup script wasn't handling deleting old backups [https://www.creedofman.com/where-did-all-my-storage-go/], and was eating up space that I had to go in and free up manually. I finally took a couple minutes and added a couple lines to fix…
Early this morning my inbox was filled with alerts from Slickdeals informing me that 10TB Western Digital hard drives were available on Amazon.com for the incredibly low price of $79.99. I thought to myself "literally too good to be true" and ordered as many as I could. I…
I self-host a lot of web applications/services out of my home - including this site. One of the services that I have been running for years, with various iterations, is a VPN (Virtual Private Network) server. Basically, a VPN lets me act as though all my internet traffic from…
I run a home NAS with (currently) 5x8TB HDDs in a raidz zpool. When I migrated from my old cobbled-together NAS, I moved ~18TB of data across to the new ~32TB pool. I was hopeful that the remaining ~14TB would last me for at least 12-18 months before I'd need…