State of the Server Rack – 2022 Edition
It’s finally the way that I want it … for now, anyways… 😛 (from top to bottom) 2U shelf that pretty much only holds my Hue Hub and the button ...
Tag: computers
The Road to Multi-Gigabit Internet Service…
To say I was caught off guard last month when I randomly stumbled upon a news release stating that my ISP, Frontier, was going to start offering 2 Gbps service ...
And as long as we’re talking about Plex…
I added a few more disks to my NAS when Best Buy put them on sale earlier this month, so now we’re officially up to a whopping 20 disks including parity i...
Lesson Learned – Test Your Backups!
I like to think that I’ve come a long way since I first started noodling around with Plex back in … wow – 2014?! What was first an install on ...
“Upgrade your server!” they said. “It’ll be EASY!!!” they said…
It’s been a while since I’ve done much tinkering with my home servers – frankly because I’ve been pretty satisfied how they’ve bee...
FINALLY! An Actual Use for QR Codes!!!
There’s no sense in holding back now – I’ve honestly always thought that QR codes were kind of dumb. BUT… I just stumbled across a prett...
Evolution of a Media Collection
I wish I had kept better records of this over time – I’m basically just going by when I added new drives, but it’s still crazy to see how this...
To Migrate 70 Terabytes…
It’s true. The project that I started almost two months ago to migrate all of my home server data from rapidly aging desktop hardware to a rackmount NAS i...
A Change of Backup…
This past weekend I finally made the decision to switch backup providers from CrashPlan to Backblaze. I think. It seems like I’ve been using CrashPlan for...
How to Grow a Virtual Disk… (the long way)
So to any sysadmins who do this kind of stuff on a daily basis, this is going to seem way obvious, but for somebody who doesn’t and has been struggling wi...