Homelab

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8-part series · read in orderBuild a homelab on DebianA beginner-friendly series that turns one spare machine into a small, self-hosted homelab on Debian — from a fresh install to Docker, services, backups, and k3s.Start the series

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16 Jun 2026· min read

Anatomy of a homelab RAID10

A field-notes tour of the storage tier behind my homelab: a four-disk mdadm RAID10 of mismatched, second-hand WD Reds, ext4 on top, exported into Kubernetes as a hostPath. The build as it actually stands — mixed drive vintages, the mdadm choices that matter, and what I'd change.