Build Your First Home NAS With Fygo OS
A home NAS from recycled parts and Fygo OS: the hardware, the four jobs it has to do, the permission gotcha that hides your media, and the free tier.
Blog / Category
Hardware
Hands-on with the hardware in the lab and on the desk. Mini PCs, NAS builds, travel routers, KVM switches and a 3D printer.
10 posts
AV Access iDock B10 Review: KVM for Desktop and Laptop
Hands-on with the AV Access iDock B10 for dual-monitor desktop plus laptop setups: 120 Hz, 10 Gbps USB, 100 W charging and one-button switching.
Setting Up the Creality K1 Max with OrcaSlicer
First setup of the Creality K1 Max and OrcaSlicer, with the printer profile, custom G-code and a test print before printing rackmounts for ProDesk Minis.
Mini PC Rack: DeskPi RackMate T0 Review with 3 HP Mini PCs
A 10-inch rack for mini PCs: building the DeskPi RackMate T0 around three HP ProDesk 600 G4 Minis running Proxmox and Ceph, with a PDU and a hidden switch.
50TB NAS Build with Jonsbo N2 and HexOS
My 50TB NAS in a Jonsbo N2 with five 10TB HDDs, two 2TB NVMe drives and an N100 board running HexOS, plus the libata.force=noncq fix for SATA NCQ errors.
How to Build a Quiet and Powerful Home Lab in a Tiny PC
Upgrade a tiny PC into a silent home lab node: 64 GB RAM, a 2 TB NVMe drive and a dual 2.5 Gbit network card on a PCIe riser, bracket trimmed to fit.
GL.iNet Mudi V2 (GL-E750V2) Travel Router Review
A look at the GL.iNet Mudi V2 (GL-E750V2) travel router: 7,000mAh battery, OpenWrt, 4G LTE SIM slot, and tunnelling all traffic to a home WireGuard server.
Fix MDT BSOD on Proxmox VMs: Import the VirtIO Drivers
Windows VMs on Proxmox blue-screened during MDT deployment until I added a driver fallback step with the VirtIO drivers and a PowerShell check.
Build a 3-Node Proxmox Cluster with Ceph Step by Step
Build a three-node Proxmox cluster with Ceph: create the cluster, join two nodes, install Ceph and OSDs, then run a VM on Ceph storage and live migrate it.
Installing Proxmox
Video of a first Proxmox VE install: the country detection hang fixed by replugging the network cable, picking the disk and setting FQDN and static IP.