SMART
NAS Integrity for Home Labs: Scrubs, SMART, ECC, Checksums, and a Real Restore
09/12/2026
A practical NAS integrity routine: ZFS scrubs, SMART tests, snapshots, checksums, ECC expectations, backup verification, and actual restore drills.
Closet NAS Maintenance: Check Heat, Dust, Power, and Drive Health
06/22/2026
A NAS is a small server, and closets are often bad server rooms. Check airflow, power, alerts, disks, and restore paths before it fails quietly.
What Should You Monitor in a Homelab?
06/22/2026
Monitor failures that affect household service or recovery, with an owner and response for each alert. Test notification and recovery paths that remain usable when the monitored system or network fails.