Tag: HomeLab

  • Migrating from Synology and MergerFS/SnapRAID to TrueNAS

    Migrating from Synology and MergerFS/SnapRAID to TrueNAS

    If you’ve been following the madness here at DabbleDen, you know I’ve been on a bit of a mission to tame the “Frankenstein’s Monster” of servers living in my rack. In my last post, I talked about breathing new life into a 12-drive bay chassis using Proxmox, MergerFS, and SnapRAID. It was the perfect “budget”…

  • Turning My Home Server Into A NAS with MergerFS and SnapRAID

    Turning My Home Server Into A NAS with MergerFS and SnapRAID

    I finally got around to building a NAS out of my home server. I used MergerFS and SnapRAID to turn my ProxMox node into a single mountable network drive that had redundancy, while being able to swipe a drive and throw it into another PC and still read that data without overhead or formatting. And…

  • The Mini-Base | Data-Base Station

    The Mini-Base | Data-Base Station

    A Nerd’s Warehouse In this little package is a full home lab and GMRS radio repeater all-in-one! On the left you’ll see 4 mini-PCs that are all clustered together under ProxMox, hosting a variety of different things. Moving right, the upside-down thing is a Protectli Vault that hosts my firewall to the network. Speaking of…