A boring, durable home-server build: an old N100 mini-PC + a single 4 TB drive + LUKS + ZFS-on-root snapshots
People build a homelab and immediately start with three drives, four NUCs, a 10GbE switch, Proxmox cluster — an installation that takes a weekend, costs $1,500, and breaks within a month because there’s too much to keep working. The home-server …