Historical Overview

At some point in my life, around middle-to-high school age, I became the household expert on “where everything is.”

I moved the servers just in time.

The drives I ordered for the new NAS were a bit of a surprise choice.

Hunger Is No Joke#

As we know, you can never have too much space. To the green Barracuda — once the biggest at 8TB — three red IronWolfs at 12TB each were added, replacing the 4TB WD drives. But all good things come to an end, and inevitably so did the free space on all those disks. For quite a while I had an expansion unit on my wishlist — a box that lets you connect a few extra drives to an existing Synology. And then Black Friday 2024 arrived.

Lets get the party started#

What better way to celebrate the New Year than a major update of the server OS on your home server?

I thought it over and decided not to wait for Black Friday, nor for the storage to run out ahead of schedule. In the spirit of increasing diversity inside my NAS, a green Seagate joined the two existing red WD drives.

I’m obviously not going to connect just one NAS to the UPS — that would be both unfair and unwise.

Got out of the habit of tower computers with big fans… Only half a year has passed since that memorable Black Friday when a Synology moved in with me — and this is what its (her?) insides look like today.

Today, among the digital residents of our home, yet another (in a long line of) little box has appeared. Actually, thanks to Black Friday (which deserves its own separate post) — several of them showed up, one after another, but this one is by far the most promising and offers the most to play around with.

My long-held, if somewhat forgotten, dream of setting up a home NAS was rekindled by a post from Tivasyk.