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TrueNAS vs Unraid 2026: Building a NAS on a Used Server

TrueNAS vs Unraid 2026: Building a NAS on a Used Server

Posted by Konstantin Protasov, PCSP on Oct 13th 2026

Ask how to build a NAS on a used server and you get two answers, TrueNAS and Unraid, argued as if the choice were taste. It mostly isn’t. The two store data differently, cost differently and fail differently, and in October 2026 both have moved under the tutorials: TrueNAS SCA … read more

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What to Run on Proxmox in 2026: Helper Scripts, LXC vs VM

What to Run on Proxmox in 2026: Helper Scripts, LXC vs VM

Posted by Konstantin Protasov, PCSP on Sep 25th 2026

Correction, October 2, 2026. Proxmox’s ZFS cache rule of thumb, 2 GiB plus 1 GiB per TiB, counts available storage, not raw disks, and neither it nor the installer’s default reserves memory: both are ceilings. The first version of this article applied the … read more
Best Used Server for Home Lab 2026: Noise, Watts, Real Prices

Best Used Server for Home Lab 2026: Noise, Watts, Real Prices

Posted by Konstantin Protasov, PCSP on Sep 2nd 2026

The 2026 home lab has settled into a recognizable stack. Proxmox is still the most-recommended base in this year's community starter guides, with TrueNAS 27 (correction, October 13, 2026: this line first said TrueNAS 26, the name iXsystems dropped on October 5; 27 is a release … read more
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