ZFS
NAS Integrity for Home Labs: Scrubs, SMART, ECC, Checksums, and a Real Restore
A practical NAS integrity routine: ZFS scrubs, SMART tests, snapshots, checksums, ECC expectations, backup verification, and actual restore drills.
Proxmox Storage for Normal People
A plain-English Proxmox storage guide explaining local, local-lvm, ZFS, NFS, iSCSI, Ceph, PBS, snapshots, and backup boundaries.
Proxmox 9.x Upgrade Plan for Home Labs
A practical Proxmox 9.x upgrade runbook for home labs, covering backups, pve8to9 checks, repositories, Ceph caveats, rollback, and post-upgrade validation.
TrueNAS vs Unraid vs OpenMediaVault vs Proxmox for a Home Server
Choose TrueNAS, Unraid, OpenMediaVault, or Proxmox by primary workload, disk growth, application isolation, licensing, and the recovery burden you can support.
Beginner Proxmox Home Server Build: Safe Defaults for Your First Node
A beginner-friendly Proxmox build plan covering hardware, storage, networking, first VMs, backups, updates, and validation before trusting the server.
RAID, ZFS Snapshots, Sync, and Backup: What Each One Does Not Protect
Use all four for different jobs. RAID keeps storage online after some disk failures, snapshots recover recent local changes, sync moves current files between places, and backup restores data after loss, corruption.