Storage & NAS Guides
Everything you need to know about home storage: RAID levels, NAS hardware, file sharing protocols, media servers, and backup strategies. Whether you are buying your first NAS or designing a multi-drive RAIDZ2 pool, these guides cover the concepts and tradeoffs clearly.
RAID & Redundancy
NAS & Cloud
Media Servers
File Sharing & Protocols
Filesystems & Data Integrity
Filesystems for NAS
ext4, XFS, Btrfs, ZFS compared for NAS deployments.
Encryption at Rest
Disk, filesystem, and application encryption — where each layer protects.
Deduplication Explained
Block-level, file-level dedupe — and the RAM cost.
RAID vs Erasure Coding
Two redundancy approaches at different scales.