Dell Wyse 3040 eMMC Storage Health Monitoring

By Michael McGarrah · October 19, 20255 min read

eMMC storage doesn't support SMART, but the JEDEC health reporting built into mmc-utils gives you life time estimation and pre-EOL status for Dell Wyse 3040 boot drives.

Optimizing Ceph Performance in Proxmox Homelab

By Michael McGarrah · October 12, 20257 min read

Performance tuning Ceph on USB storage and constrained hardware — mClock configuration, IOPS optimization, and the realities of USB 3.0 as a storage tier.

Managing Ceph Nearfull Warnings in Proxmox Homelab

By Michael McGarrah · September 28, 20256 min read

Ceph's nearfull warnings are capacity planning signals, not emergencies — if you understand the thresholds and respond before the cluster goes read-only.

Proxmox 8 Lessons Learned in the Homelab

By Michael McGarrah · September 21, 20254 min read

Hard-won lessons from running Proxmox since version 7.4 through 8.2.2 — upgrade gotchas, Ceph integration tips, and the patterns that apply at any scale.

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2025-10-19 Dell Wyse 3040 eMMC Storage Health Monitoring
2025-10-12 Optimizing Ceph Performance in Proxmox Homelab
2025-09-28 Managing Ceph Nearfull Warnings in Proxmox Homelab
2025-09-21 Proxmox 8 Lessons Learned in the Homelab