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The SMR Drive Trap: Slow ZFS and How to Avoid It

Shingled magnetic recording drives can silently cripple ZFS pools with timeouts, faults, and multi-day resilvers. Here's how to spot and avoid them.

Authored By LAN Surf - Home Lab Resources · Led By Robert H Published 2026-08-06 · Last Edited 2026-09-19

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NUT UPS Shutdowns: USB Passthrough & Graceful Script

Get your Proxmox host to shut down cleanly before the UPS battery dies. NUT config, USB passthrough, and a shutdown script that actually fires.

Authored By LAN Surf - Home Lab Resources · Led By Robert H Published 2026-08-03 · Last Edited 2026-09-19