I’ve been working on filling all the bays in my Fractal Node 804 case for months now. I actually filled it awhile ago, but accidentally killed 4 out of 5 brand-new WD drives by using the wrong SATA power connector cable from my modular PSU (note: turns out even…
Alas, the $80 10TB drives will not materialize anytime soon. Amazon cancelled all orders, and appear to have issued $20 conciliatory gift cards in apology. I spent a few minutes on a support chat trying to talk my way into the discount to no avail. Sad face. But hey -…
Early this morning my inbox was filled with alerts from Slickdeals informing me that 10TB Western Digital hard drives were available on Amazon.com for the incredibly low price of $79.99. I thought to myself "literally too good to be true" and ordered as many as I could. I…
I self-host a lot of web applications/services out of my home - including this site. One of the services that I have been running for years, with various iterations, is a VPN (Virtual Private Network) server. Basically, a VPN lets me act as though all my internet traffic from…
I run a home NAS with (currently) 5x8TB HDDs in a raidz zpool. When I migrated from my old cobbled-together NAS, I moved ~18TB of data across to the new ~32TB pool. I was hopeful that the remaining ~14TB would last me for at least 12-18 months before I'd need…