Home Server: A Media Storage Center That Even Beginners Can Set Up

Home Server: A Media Storage Center That Even Beginners Can Set Up

Part.1 Give Your Data a Home Are you still worried about running out of hard drive space or facing bandwidth limits on cloud storage? A home server can centralize the management of photos, videos, music, and documents, and allows for remote access. You don’t need a high technical threshold; even beginners can set it up … Read more

Home NAS + Private Cloud: What I Installed on My Home Server

Home NAS + Private Cloud: What I Installed on My Home Server

In mid-February, my QNAP NAS, which had been in service for nearly 10 years, suddenly became unresponsive, and after much effort, it was clear it could not be revived. After some research, I decided to repurpose an old Dell workstation T7820 that my previous company had discarded into a home server. The goal of this … Read more

Building a Cost-Effective Home Server with 7-Bay HP ML30 Gen9

Building a Cost-Effective Home Server with 7-Bay HP ML30 Gen9

Brothers in the backend, contact me. I have plenty of space at home and I’m not afraid of taking up space. I want to build a stable multi-bay NAS at the server level. The requirements are low cost and many bays. If you want to talk about this, then I think you must use the … Read more

Home Media Server – Docker (Using Portainer) Installation of Nastools and Usage

Home Media Server - Docker (Using Portainer) Installation of Nastools and Usage

Nastools Introduction Nastools is an open-source toolkit designed for NAS (Network Attached Storage) users, primarily for automating media resource management and optimizing the NAS user experience. It integrates various practical functions to help users automate the downloading, organizing, categorizing, and syncing of media libraries, making it especially suitable for home media libraries, PT (private tracker) … Read more

This PCB Can Achieve 10G Soft Router NAS?! The Routing Design Shines…

This PCB Can Achieve 10G Soft Router NAS?! The Routing Design Shines...

Project Name: Handcrafted 10G Soft Router NAS, using only LattePanda Mu PCIe board Project Author: Mr. Light Up Introduction This is an extremely powerful expansion board! It is equipped with 3 PCIe slots, supporting: 10G Network Cards NVMe Expansion Cards Graphics Cards, etc. Various PCIe Devices One board achieves network acceleration, storage expansion, and local … Read more

1Panel: Transforming Old Computers into Powerful Home Servers – Installation Guide and Practical Experience

1Panel: Transforming Old Computers into Powerful Home Servers - Installation Guide and Practical Experience

For the past two weeks, I have been experimenting with the WanKe Cloud, aiming to use it as a home NAS. I tested several different systems, and I have compiled the more effective ones into this article. Detailed tutorial on flashing WanKe Cloud, giving new life to idle electronic waste Complete guide to flashing WanKe … Read more

Lenovo Personal Cloud Home Network Storage Server

Lenovo Personal Cloud Home Network Storage Server

In this era of information and data explosion, people’s requirements for storage are also increasing. Whether on mobile phones or computers, over time, the massive amounts of photos, videos, office documents, games, and chat records have made storage space tight. Cloud storage services were once considered the best solution, but they have inherent limitations in … Read more

Preventing Sleep Mode When Closing a Linux Laptop

Preventing Sleep Mode When Closing a Linux Laptop

Recently, I assembled a NAS system using an old laptop and needed to configure it so that the laptop does not enter sleep mode when the lid is closed. Here are the steps I followed: Edit the logind.conf file with the following command: vi /etc/systemd/logind.conf You will see the following content: #HandlePowerKey: Action when the … Read more