Raspberry Pi 5 – Jean's Blog

Squeezing performance out of a Raspberry Pi 5 with an Intel Optane for LLM usage

Playing further with the Intel Optane module on my Raspberry Pi 5, I was able to squeeze out even more performance. The recipe? Changing the NVMe HAT, forcing PCIe Gen 3, overclocking the CPU, and …

Playing with an Intel Optane on a Raspberry Pi 5

Checking out an Intel Optane module was always on my bucket list, but I never really had a solid use case for it. Recently, instead of buying a new Raspberry Pi with more physical RAM, I thought: why not give high-speed, ultra-low-latency swap a try?

Migrating from MinIO to Garage on a Raspberry Pi 5

I recently migrated my self-hosted S3-compatible storage from MinIO to Garage.

While MinIO is the industry leader for enterprise object storage, I needed something lighter for my homelab to serve Paperless-ngx (thousands of small files) and Audiobookshelf (large media files). My choice fell on Garage (v1.0+), an open-source distributed object store tailored for self-hosting.