As a computer geek, I’ve long had a large stash of data that consumes far more than the available single disks of the times.
Over the years, I’ve built a number of file servers to suit my needs, all based on Linux, and mostly using software RAID in Linux. Unfortunately, there’s a number of issues that [...]
Many moons ago, someone started an FTP site which hosted various pictures of pinball parts. Most were in TIFF format, and the site was dog slow, and of course, being FTP, offered no thumbnails. Since files weren’t always named well, it was a nightmare trying to figure out if they had what you wanted.
8 years [...]
I still see a lot of referral traffic for the Linux icon conversion tool I wrote probably 10 years ago now. After many years of the code hiding out on some forgotten hard drive, I’ve pulled it out, made sure it compiles on a modern Linux box, and am posting it for download here.
Personally speaking, [...]
Most computer geeks know about SMART, or at least have heard of SMART, the built in system in hard disks to monitor their health. The problem with SMART is that it’s data, not analysis. Unless you know how all the numbers work together, it’s not terribly useful information.
While trolling the unRAID forums today, I ran [...]
