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Need for faster storage speed? | One of the best ways to make your PC run faster, apart from buying a new PC, is to upgrade its storage. In the past, we upgraded from hard disks to SSDs, and then to NVMe. Now, the ...
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There's the hard way, and also the easy way, to run your own NAS. | Whether for photos, media, documents, backups, or other purposes, most people use some kind of network or cloud storage. While public cloud storage ...
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Instead of buying a regular NAS like most consumers would do, I built my own. It had been a Linux PC for a decade or so, but I switched to a FreeNAS appliance last year. I just completed an uneventful upgrade to version 11.1 U1 ...
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A few moons ago, I was still using ownCloud. It’s basically a Dropbox-style private cloud software that you can run in your own hardware. When I transitioned to a new DIY NAS PC, I got to know the turmoil that surrounded ...
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It’s very annoying when something that has worked all the time should suddenly break down when you upgrade a related thing. In this case, ownCloud was upgraded to version 8.1 recently, the updates being automatically ...
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It’s still relatively early in this new year of 2015, and if you’ve not thought about any new year’s resolution, I’ve some suggestions for you. If you’re not already doing these things, it’s ...
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I’ve started to run my own private cloud storage service. It’s fronted by ownCloud, and the storage is backed by Btrfs across three hard disk drives. They run off a CentOS 7 home server. This has been something ...
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We use cloud based services for so many things these days. Storage, for example, is one of them. Popular names that come to mind include Dropbox, Google Drive and OneDrive. You probably use some or even all of them. I use them ...
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Btrfs, pronounced “Butter F S”, among others, is one of the many open source filesystems available on Linux. It’s features include multi-device spanning, cloning, snapshots, sub volumes, and RAID capabilities ...
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It’s the 10th anniversary of Western Digital’s popular line of My Passport portable external hard drives. Western Digital is commemorating this milestone with the launch of the My Passport Ultra Anniversary Edition ...
