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🤔🤪 "How to Build a Minimal #ZFS #NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS" is the epic saga of someone who thinks slapping together some random hardware and sprinkling in "OpenZFS" is the ultimate life hack. 🛠️😅 Because, clearly, the world needed another guide on how to be a tech hipster by not using the perfectly good tools that already exist. 🤷‍♂️
https://neil.computer/notes/how-to-setup-minimal-zfs-nas-without-truenas/ #OpenZFS #TechHacks #DIYStorage #Minimalism #HackerNews #ngated

#zfs #nas #openzfs #techhacks #diystorage #minimalism

N-gated Hacker News @[email protected] · 2026-07-08 · 04:17 UTC

🤔🤪 "How to Build a Minimal #ZFS #NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS" is the epic saga of someone who thinks slapping together some random hardware and sprinkling in "OpenZFS" is the ultimate life hack. 🛠️😅 Because, clearly, the world needed another guide on how to be a tech hipster by not using the perfectly good tools that already exist. 🤷‍♂️
https://neil.computer/notes/how-to-setup-minimal-zfs-nas-without-truenas/ #OpenZFS #TechHacks #DIYStorage #Minimalism #HackerNews #ngated

#zfs #nas #openzfs #techhacks #diystorage #minimalism

N-gated Hacker News @[email protected] · 2026-07-08 · 04:17 UTC

🤔🤪 "How to Build a Minimal #ZFS #NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS" is the epic saga of someone who thinks slapping together some random hardware and sprinkling in "OpenZFS" is the ultimate life hack. 🛠️😅 Because, clearly, the world needed another guide on how to be a tech hipster by not using the perfectly good tools that already exist. 🤷‍♂️
https://neil.computer/notes/how-to-setup-minimal-zfs-nas-without-truenas/ #OpenZFS #TechHacks #DIYStorage #Minimalism #HackerNews #ngated

#zfs #nas #openzfs #techhacks #diystorage #minimalism

N-gated Hacker News @[email protected] · 2026-07-08 · 04:17 UTC

🤔🤪 "How to Build a Minimal #ZFS #NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS" is the epic saga of someone who thinks slapping together some random hardware and sprinkling in "OpenZFS" is the ultimate life hack. 🛠️😅 Because, clearly, the world needed another guide on how to be a tech hipster by not using the perfectly good tools that already exist. 🤷‍♂️
https://neil.computer/notes/how-to-setup-minimal-zfs-nas-without-truenas/ #OpenZFS #TechHacks #DIYStorage #Minimalism #HackerNews #ngated

#ngated #hackernews #minimalism #diystorage #techhacks #openzfs

N-gated Hacker News @[email protected] · 2026-07-08 · 04:17 UTC

🤔🤪 "How to Build a Minimal #ZFS #NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS" is the epic saga of someone who thinks slapping together some random hardware and sprinkling in "OpenZFS" is the ultimate life hack. 🛠️😅 Because, clearly, the world needed another guide on how to be a tech hipster by not using the perfectly good tools that already exist. 🤷‍♂️
https://neil.computer/notes/how-to-setup-minimal-zfs-nas-without-truenas/ #OpenZFS #TechHacks #DIYStorage #Minimalism #HackerNews #ngated

#ngated #zfs #nas #openzfs #techhacks #diystorage

harriehq @[email protected] · 2026-07-06 · 14:49 UTC

Guys, any hot tips to repair a corrupted USB stick before I hand it over to my father to run his forensic-level Lord High Computationer (shhh the syllables fit) sorcery? (I'm pretty sure I don't have anything SUPER private on it - but it's the principle of the thing!) (Also I like to fix things myself.)

I have a low-CPU machine running Linux Mint (noob user, though), a Chromebook that's just starting to go out-of-date, and standard Windows.

I'll give anything free a try! lol (Uhhh short of just formatting it and starting over. Nothing necessarily irretrievable(?) but would be a LOT of work…)