10GbE and Storage Server Upgrades
Since the swap over to my new 4U storage server ZION it has already had a number of upgrades and I have used it quite heavily.
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ZION - 4U Unraid Storage Server
I am excited to reveal my latest 2020 custom server build - ZION. See my previous planning post for Zion here.
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2020 Home Lab Upgrade (Unraid 4U)
It's a new year, and that means it's time for some home lab upgrades! The last few upgrades I did were some hardware hacks to my old Thecus N5550's to support…
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unRAID on Thecus N5550 with 6 drives
This post is specific to owners of the Thecus N5550 but will apply to almost all of the Thecus NAS lineup as well.
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New Synology DS1817+ NAS & ISP Switch
By the end of 2017 nearly all my NAS servers were close to reaching full capacity. I had already pre-decided on getting a Synology DS1817+ but it was just a…
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Disaster strikes as NAS3 crashes
This past weekend we had a power brownout for about 4 hours. This caused my servers to fail-over to battery power.
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Whoops! My Samsung 950 PRO M.2 512GB SSD experience
This story is a bit of a sad story. Mainly due to the failure of my own personal oversight over a very important specification requirement and snowballed by my…
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Storage Refresh 2016 - Time to Build! (Part 2)
The hard drives have arrived today from NCIX and it's now time to build it out to finally increase the storage capacity in my home lab.
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Storage Refresh 2016 - The Plan
The time has come to increase storage capacity in the home lab. I expect that before the end of this year that I will have less than 1TB of free space left on…
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