Cold Storage
Two encrypted, offline WD Elements drives that form the cold tier of the 3-2-1 backup strategy.
Two encrypted, offline WD Elements drives that form the cold tier of the 3-2-1 backup strategy.
The physical layer of the homelab — compute nodes, storage tiers, NAS, and the cold-backup drives.
Off-site Synology DS723+ NAS with RAID 1 and BTRFS snapshots, replicated continuously via Syncthing as the hot backup tier.
Hardware spec sheet for the three retired Inter-Tech / Biostar B450NH mini-servers that ran the legacy K3s cluster, replaced by the Intel NUC Talos cluster.
Three identical ASUS NUC 13 Pro nodes running Talos Linux, racked in a 1.5U tray as the primary Kubernetes cluster.
2U rackmount TrueNAS SCALE NAS built on AM4 with the ASRock Rack X570D4U, LSI 9211-8i HBA, and Intel X520-DA2 10 GbE NIC.