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This NAS easily fills up a 2.5 GbE connection. | I reported some filesystem speed test on the QNAP TS-464 with IronWolf disks recently. Those were done with a 1 Gbps network connection, and I promised an update using ...
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IT security also includes physical security. Don't forget to protect against physical theft and loss.
| Have you thought about the security of the data stored in your PC? Data theft is something that all of us should ...
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Black Friday has come and gone, and today, we have Cyber Monday, another excuse for a holiday shopping season in the lead up to Christmas. There’s less than one month left to Christmas, and if you haven’t shopped for ...
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I’ve been writing a number of posts about building a Network Attached Storage (NAS). The final, and arguably the most critical piece of the build, is the hard disk drive itself. Of course, everything’s important, but ...
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Now that we have the scoop on the root cause of the SGX outage last Thursday, one wonders why a simple matter of a hard disk failure could spiral into such a disruption. More interesting, yet, is why a simple hard disk failure ...
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At some point, your computer gets old, and you buy a new one. Then, what do you do with your old computer? Perhaps some people may re-use the hard disks. But if not, then what do you do with them? Do you just dump them in the ...
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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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Western Digital launched last month a new addition to their line of My Passport portable storage solutions, the My Passport Wireless. The My Passport Wireless is not only a portable hard disk drive, but also a mobile wireless ...
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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 ...
