Tag: storage

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.

Bind mounts are fast and simple; NFS is shared and flexible for containers. Pick wrong and your database corrupts at 2 AM. Here is how to choose wisely.

Bcachefs got booted from the Linux mainline kernel and now ships as a DKMS module. Stability verdict, tiering, and a straight answer for home lab use in 2026.

MinIO Community Edition was archived April 25, 2026. Here's why Garage (AGPL, Rust, NLnet-funded) is the right self-hosted S3 replacement and how to migrate.

Your RAID 5 rebuild on a modern multi-TB drive has a 40-50% chance of hitting a URE before it finishes. Here's the 2026 math and what to do about it.

RAID 6 and RAID 10 both survive two dead disks and both need four drives. But they get there completely differently, and that difference matters.

RAID 0 is fast and terrifying, RAID 1 is boring and beautiful, RAID 5 is the NAS compromise. How to pick the right one for your home lab drives.

ZFS is the paranoid fortress of filesystems. Btrfs is the scrappy upstart built into your kernel. Here's which one belongs in your home lab.

Learn IPFS distributed storage: content addressing, CIDs, installing the IPFS daemon, pinning files, public gateways, and real use cases for resilient self-hosted file storage.

du and df still work, but Rust-era tools like dust, duf, and fclones make disk triage faster and way less painful in 2026.