cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/32242829
Chapters 00:00 Intro 01:47 Buying cheap and power hungry homelab gear 04:53 How to configure C-States? 07:59 Does Powertop hurt your performance? 08:43 How to find out what prevents HDD spindown? 10:05 Is an all-SSD NAS worth it? 12:21 ARM-powered homelab? 13:51 Exposing your homelab services? 16:40 TrueNAS/Unraid vs. a regular Linux distro? 17:59 My backup strategy 19:32 Getting friends and family into backups 20:05 Cheap VPS for hosting Headscale 20:48 To UPS or not to UPS? 21:39 My storage setup



When Microsoft released Windows Home Server, I felt for sure that would ignite the flame. Yeah, it’s windows, but in the right direction I thought as far as home servers go. I’ve always felt that every home should have a server of some type. We have so much digital data now that has replaced the filing cabinet full of birth certificates, deeds to properties, financial documents, pictures, media, etc. that not having one seems to me to be a bad idea.
I think if a home server package were simple enough even a cave man could do it, and it got the average non-tech person over the hump of scary computer tech they don’t know, it would become a common appliance in homes and not the exception.