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Category: Homelab/Storage/TrueNAS Scale

Can you really squeeze 96TB in 1U ?

Posted On September 12, 2024October 1, 2025 By James

Yes, that’s a clickbait title. But technically it’s possible if I dropped all drive redundancy… I recently saw an advert for a server that was just too good to be true. It promised to bring a huge amount of storage and future options in a quite hard-to-believe 1U. The price Continue Reading

Category: Homelab/Storage

Homelab Storage Refresh (Part 1)

Posted On May 23, 2023October 1, 2025 By James
TrueNAS Logo

Table of Contents Background ZFS Overview Read Cache (ARC and L2ARC) ZIL (ZFS Intent Log) Hardware Background I have just completed the move of all my production and media-based storage/services to TrueNAS Scale. ( I will just refer to this as TrueNAS) This is based on my HP Z840 and Continue Reading

Category: Homelab/Storage/vExpert

Intel Optane NVMe Homelab

Posted On April 17, 2023October 1, 2025 By James

I have been a VMware vExpert for many years and it has brought me many many benefits over the years. I don’t think it’s an understatement to say I probably wouldn’t have my current role within VMware without it. One of the best benefits has been access to a huge Continue Reading

Category: Homelab/Networking/Storage/VMware

100Gb/s in my Homelab

Posted On December 19, 2022November 11, 2023 By James

For a while, I’ve been looking to update the networking at the core of my homelab. I have had some great results with the current setup utilising a number of DAC’s but there were a couple of things that were annoying me. Then MikroTik dropped the CRS504-4XQ-IN and if the Continue Reading

Category: Homelab/Storage/Synology

Homelab bad days (almost)

Posted On November 21, 2022April 8, 2023 By James

I recently spent 3 weeks in Ireland with my wife Wendy and our son Nate. This involves driving from the south coast of Dorset up to Scotland and then getting a ferry over to Belfast before travelling west to the Republic. While driving I got a slack notification that one Continue Reading

Category: Homelab/Storage

Lab Update – Part 2 Storage Truenas Scale

Posted On January 11, 2022December 11, 2023 By James

The HP Z840 has changed its role to a permanent storage box running Truenas Scale. This is in addition to my Synology DS918+ TrueNas is the successor to FreeNas a very popular BSD based StorageOS and TrueNas scale is a fork of this based on Linux. The Synology has been Continue Reading

Category: Homelab/Storage/Synology

Lab Storage

Posted On January 6, 2018July 10, 2024 By James

I have been meaning to post around some of the lab setup for a while.   Although it changes frequently at present it’s as below.  I will add some pics when I have tidied up the lab/cables My primary lab storage is all contained within an HP Gen8 Microserver. Currently Configured: Continue Reading