NAS

Building Your Own NAS: Security, Protection and Firewall

10 Mar 2026 [ Blog  SysAdmin  Linux  NAS  Security  ]

The final chapter of the NAS series covers practical security measures: automatic updates, SSH hardening, UFW firewall, and Fail2Ban intrusion prevention. Plus a full retrospective on the project with real performance numbers and cost breakdown.

Building Your Own NAS: Monitoring

09 Mar 2026 [ Blog  SysAdmin  Linux  NAS  Monitoring  ]

A NAS running unattended needs good monitoring. This part covers setting up comprehensive monitoring with email notifications, a full metrics stack (Telegraf + InfluxDB + Grafana), disk health monitoring, and RAID/ZFS alerting.

Building Your Own NAS: Configuring Services

08 Mar 2026 [ Blog  SysAdmin  Linux  NAS  ]

When discussing NAS solutions, most people think of “a box with disks that shares files.” In practice, a modern NAS is much more than that. This part covers configuring all key services: Samba, ownCloud, Nginx, and WireGuard VPN.

Building Your Own NAS: Custom Enclosure and Data Migration

07 Mar 2026 [ Blog  SysAdmin  Linux  NAS  ]

In this second part of the series, we tackle two major challenges: designing and 3D-printing a custom NAS enclosure, and migrating data from the original QNAP RAID to the new ZFS-based storage.

Building Your Own NAS: Hardware Selection and Operating System Choice

06 Mar 2026 [ Blog  SysAdmin  Linux  NAS  ]

Building your own network storage (NAS) doesn’t have to be expensive or complicated. In this first part of the series, I’ll show you how I built a compact, powerful, and sustainable storage solution with Docker, monitoring, and remote access using 3D printing.