Hardware writer

Niels Brandt

Niels Brandt spent eleven years as an electrician before he started building NAS boxes and quiet home servers on the side, and he now writes about the hardware he would actually put under his own desk. He keeps three old mini PCs in a closet just to test how long drives last under constant write loads, and he has tracked every fan failure in a spreadsheet since 2019. He covers hardware builds and the monitoring setups that tell you when that hardware is about to fail.

Covers Hardware, Monitoring & Backups