briancmoses @briancmoses.com · 11/09/2026TFW your favorite PC dies, you spend 2 days troubleshooting, fill up shopping carts, and then remember that you have FIVE unused 4TB NVMe SSDs from a blog that never came to fruition. 001
briancmoses @briancmoses.com · 16/08/2026There were 3 lurking issues in my spare-parts homelab machine: 1) the GMail token expired in my TrueNAS VM, 2) a HDD died at some point, 3) It wouldn't POST after I shut it down to remove the failed drive. 😬 All signs seemed to point at a dead motherboard. It's replacement works fine...so far. 000
briancmoses @briancmoses.com · 16/08/2026My spare parts sandbox Proxmox host wouldn't POST after doing some unrelated (???) updates AND one of it's hard drives is kaput. It's conflicting that I'm spending so much 💰 to repair it! I was briefly tempted to just sell all the remaining parts. 000
briancmoses @briancmoses.com · 11/12/2025If you build the #DIY #NAS: 2026 Edition and dislike the four "empty" drive bays like I did in the JONSBO N4, then check this 3D-printed modification out: www.printables.com/model/108317... 010
briancmoses @briancmoses.com · 26/11/2025The rising prices every component that went into the #DIY #NAS: 2026 Edition made me want to skip building it the hopes that things get better. But I'm not entirely convinced that things are going to get better. My auction of this DIY NAS build might be your best deal: www.ebay.com/itm/12752716... 000
briancmoses @briancmoses.com · 30/10/2025Can we wear our Halloween costumes to early voting in Texas tomorrow? 120
briancmoses @briancmoses.com · 29/10/2025PSA: The scheduling, execution, and monitoring of SMART tests has been deprecated in TrueNAS 25.10. If you upgrade, your existing scheduled SMART tests are migrated into cron jobs. But new users are on their own figuring out how to implement something equivalent. www.truenas.com/docs/scale/2... 010
briancmoses @briancmoses.com · 26/10/2025I lowered Topton N18 motherboards' prices on eBay: www.ebay.com/itm/12701456... - N150 CPU is now $219.99 (-$35) - N305 CPU is now $399.99 (-$20) There's a chance this is the last batch of these motherboards (for me). If you've been waiting for a sign to start your #DIY #NAS build, this is it! 000
briancmoses @briancmoses.com · 10/10/20253 of my 5 hygrometers in my AMS units were low on battery. So I figured I'd swap out all the desiccant while I'm replacing the batteries. This is a bigger #3Dprinting maintenance task than I expected! 020
briancmoses @briancmoses.com · 04/10/2025Here's Isaiah, the lucky winner of the #DIY #NAS: 2025 Texas Linux Fest Edition! Congratulations! 010
briancmoses @briancmoses.com · 04/10/2025Everybody's gathered around the booth waiting for the announcement of the DIY NAS: 2025 Texas Edition a few moments ago at #TXLF 000
briancmoses @briancmoses.com · 03/10/2025The booth is open! People are checking out the #DIY #NAS. And Pat's A1 Mini is cranking out some SWAG! # TXLF 000
briancmoses @briancmoses.com · 01/10/2025I'm going to be at 2025's Texas Linux Fest the next few days. I've launched a 10% off sale on my eBay store to thank the folks who patiently wait for me to get home and fulfill their orders! www.ebay.com/str/briancmo... 000
briancmoses @briancmoses.com · 23/09/2025This #DIY #NAS is ready to be shown off at Texas Linux Fest on October 3rd and 4th. Find me there and check out the #TXLF #diynas ! 2025.texaslinuxfest.org 020
briancmoses @briancmoses.com · 21/09/2025A quick pass of Memtest86+ before I start with the zip ties! 010
briancmoses @briancmoses.com · 21/09/2025Yesterday's unfortunate discovery of a #3Dprinting omission put the kibosh on finishing this #diynas. But it won't stop me from hooking everything up and to start putting it through some burn-in testing! 010
briancmoses @briancmoses.com · 20/09/2025PSU @briancmoses is watching you practicing 3-2-1 backups. 000
briancmoses @briancmoses.com · 20/09/2025Assembling the outer walls of the #3Dprinted #diynas case. 010
briancmoses @briancmoses.com · 15/09/2025I am bringing my #DIY #NAS shenanigans to Texas Linux Fest 2025 and I'll have a surprise for its attendees! 2025.texaslinuxfest.org 010
briancmoses @briancmoses.com · 21/08/2025My #DIY #NAS building is so extra! The first thing I did with makerunit's #3Dprinted 12-bay ATX case is to squeeze an extra 3 drives into the case by using 3.5"-to-2.5" drive adapters. blog.briancmoses.com/2025/08/a-3d... 030
briancmoses @briancmoses.com · 19/08/2025The theme of tonight's North Texas Makers meeting is 3D-printing, so I'm taking a few things to show off! #diynas #esp32 #bananaforscale 041
briancmoses @briancmoses.com · 19/07/2025Wildly unnecessary upgrades are under way to my off site NAS. 010
briancmoses @briancmoses.com · 14/07/2025Over the past 12+ years, I've had one (or more) #DIY #NAS machines running in these cases. Which two are your favorite? 040
briancmoses @briancmoses.com · 10/07/2025I needed to either work cleaning up my hoarded data, or I'd "need" to increase the capacity of my TrueNAS boxes. I opted to buy new hard drives for my NAS and use those drives to upgrade my offsite NAS. I have >100 TB of these leftover hard drives! I should put them to work, shouldn't I? 110
briancmoses @briancmoses.com · 16/06/2025I still haven't thought of a use for a $70 MiniPC I bought from Amazon back at the end of March. It's been running Memtest86+ for the last 2,097 hours and has had nearly 1,665 passes without an error. 000
briancmoses @briancmoses.com · 16/06/2025It's bothered me for awhile that my Proxmox cluster hasn't followed my Muppets-inspired naming convention in my homelab. So I fixed it this weekend. 100
briancmoses @briancmoses.com · 12/06/2025DHS shared the following training material it'll be providing to ICE and CBP for the world cup. 011
briancmoses @briancmoses.com · 06/06/2025Somebody said this N18 motherboard is defective, so I'm going to test it out burning in the hard drives I got today! 000
briancmoses @briancmoses.com · 06/06/2025This'll be interesting! How long do you think it'll take to burn-in these drives, use them to replace the drives in my primary NAS, use the freed up drives to upgrade my off-site NAS, and then use the leftover drives to build a third NAS!? I'm guessing 2 weeks, at least. 000
briancmoses @briancmoses.com · 28/04/2025Check out this 12-bay ATX case that you can 3D-print on any printer with a bed larger than 180mm x 180mm! www.printables.com/model/127884... Should I print and review one? Let me know! 010
briancmoses @briancmoses.com · 23/04/2025T-Mobile decided to abandon its so-called "uncarrier" ethos, so today I made them the "excarrier" ... sort of? I switched to Mint Mobile, which still uses the T-Mobile network. Even better? We're saving a bunch of money every month! Are you mad at T-Mobile too? Check Mint out: fbuy.me/u-SoX 000
briancmoses @briancmoses.com · 15/04/2025TrueNAS SCALE Fangtooth (25.04) dropped today. I'm early adopting! 001
briancmoses @briancmoses.com · 10/04/2025If you're interested to see the real world impacts of the trade war, come join me in this thread on Discord: blog.briancmoses.com/discord TL;DR: If you've been considering buying a motherboard from new, buy it tonight! 010
briancmoses @briancmoses.com · 02/04/2025I built this "building block set" of a gaming PC last weekend. 000
briancmoses @briancmoses.com · 29/03/2025Listen to Skeletor, kids! blog.briancmoses.com/2025/03/rack... 000
briancmoses @briancmoses.com · 28/03/2025Want to join in on the mini rack craze? Don't spend a bunch of money on an off-the-shelf solution just like everyone else's. Buy a 3D printer and print something totally custom! blog.briancmoses.com/2025/03/rack... 031
briancmoses @briancmoses.com · 14/03/2025Uncarrier, my ass. My plans aren't even that "old" Given that all my recent interactions with T-Mobile have been awful (especially in their retail locations), I guess some new phone plan shopping is in my future? 000
briancmoses @briancmoses.com · 06/03/2025Can I really call it a "miniature" #DIY #NAS if I don't include a #bananaforscale ?! buff.ly/wKuq37V 030