McGarrah Technical Blog

Hard Drives for the Homelabs

· 1 min read
Storage has hit a penny per GB. A 20TB renewed drive for $200 and a 20TB USB-C enclosure for $220 make the math work for a Ceph offsite backup strategy.

Backlog of Posts

· 4 min read
A mid-2024 status dump of unpublished drafts and stalled projects: site-to-site VPN, LAG/LACP, PiKVM, Ceph performance, Kubernetes, and a growing media server backlog.

ProxMox 8.2 for the Homelabs

· 7 min read
Building a Proxmox 8 + Ceph HA cluster on decade-old Dell OptiPlex 990 hardware with Seagate USB drives — the background, the hardware inventory, and why Ceph beat a Synology NAS.

Thinkpad T480 WWAN SSD

· 6 min read
Adding a 1TB NVMe SSD to the ThinkPad T480's WWAN M.2 slot using a 2230-to-2242 B+M key adapter — a cheap way to get a separate data volume for LLM models.

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