Chris Moates’ adventures in the land of Mox

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 [...]

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 [...]