To catch the world up on the state of my homelab. The first iteration started in 2017. I acquired used enterprise hardware through Ebay, learned about shucking, and my 3U enclosure even shipped with an unexpected motherboard worth more than the enclosure. I was winning. It was glorious. I booted FreeNAS off a coupled of mirrored USBs (I’d go on chew through about 4 flash drives before accepting that I needed a dedicated SSD). I was off to the r/DataHoarder races and it felt good. ...