We geek out over Brian Moses's 2025 DIY NAS build guide, contemplate future builds with the new Raspberry Pi Compute 5 module, and fully embrace our digital hoarding nature with a new app.
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- Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 — Compute Module 5 is a powerful and scalable system on module with a 64-bit Arm processor @ 2.4GHz, an I/O controller, video and PCIe interfaces, and a range of wireless, SDRAM and eMMC options.
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- The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 Has Arrived
- Raspberry Pi Launches The Compute Module 5 For $45 USD — This modular version of the Raspberry Pi 5 is priced at $45 USD. Eben Upton noted in today's announcement that some 70% to 80% of Raspberry Pi units are going into industrial and embedded applications.
- DIY NAS: 2025 Edition - briancmoses.com — A diminuitive, TrueNAS SCALE machine featuring: 92TB of storage (90TB of HDD, 2TB of SSD), an Intel N100 CPU, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and 10Gbps networking for under $1,750!
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- Hoarder — Quickly save links, notes, and images and hoarder will automatically tag them for you using AI for faster retrieval. Built for the data hoarders out there!
- Hoarder - Demo Page
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