Tag: storage

Dropbox got expensive and your data left the building. Syncthing, Resilio Sync, and Seafile compared, pick the one that fits your threat model.

Disks fail. SMART tells you when. Here's how smartctl and smartd actually predict failure, and the attributes that matter (most don't).

Stop trusting marketing IOPS numbers. fio measures what your disk actually does on your workload, sequential, random, mixed. Here's how to read the output honestly.

Stop burning money on AWS egress fees. Here is how to build a real tiered backup strategy using Backblaze B2 plus rclone for your home lab setup in 2026.

Ceph on 3 nodes: real hardware requirements, honest performance tradeoffs, and exactly when distributed storage beats a plain NFS share for your home lab.

Set up Snapper on Btrfs to auto-snapshot before every system update, roll back broken machines in minutes, and never lose a working root filesystem again.

sanoid manages ZFS snapshot policies automatically, syncoid replicates them over SSH to remote pools, together they're the lowest-effort offsite backup strategy for any ZFS user.

Stop letting every machine write directly to S3. Kopia repository server gives you shared dedup, per-host auth, and sane maintenance, all in one place.

Pipe ZFS incremental snapshots through WireGuard to a friend's NAS or a remote VPS. Encrypted in transit and at rest, no rsync.net bill or vendor lock-in.

Restic forget, prune, and check: right order, real retention flags, cron automation, and why --read-data on a large repo will ruin your whole weekend.

Skip the paid Unraid license. mergerfs + SnapRAID give you flexible JBOD pooling with parity protection on mismatched drives you already own, for free.

Run a real S3-compatible object storage cluster on Raspberry Pi 4s with SeaweedFS, low RAM overhead, fast filer, no Ceph drama or surprise cloud bills.