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
Choose storage protection by failure mode: RAID for certain disk failures, snapshots for point-in-time state, sync for current changes and independent backups for recovery. Not every design needs all four.