Category Archives: Technical

Gonna spend the weekend trying to reorganize my office network. Just my office. Trying to clean up make it easier to function. In reality, I need to get rid of stuff. There are some things that do not need to … Continue reading →

OK not physically moving homes but moving data and parts. Currently as I post I am moving data from an 3.5 inch disk to a 2.5 inch SSD. The data taken up is only 28GB and the file system is … Continue reading →

I didn’t have to crossflash it but the HBA is functional. It is SAS 9300, got it on my bench. After I finished I rebooted to CentOS7 and it looked fine. Thinking of doing Rocky 9 as well. Got the … Continue reading →

Got my first JonsBro N3, 3D printed system done. Needed those correct inserts and they just worked. I tested out access one of the drives using a USB to SATA connection. It worked!!! The JBOD rack is done. Hoping there … Continue reading →

Before I give an update, I want to say that it may be cheaper to buy a purpose built case, I am doing three of these so I got a little bit of that economy of scale going for me. … Continue reading →

Been over a month since Toto left us. The healing continues though, but seems to moving too slow. I touched his memorial today, reminded me of him being around. Life is quiet, not ready for a new dog… yet. Almost … Continue reading →

I spend hours in this chair I am sitting in. It is not unusual for me to be in my chair for 12 hours in a day. So I looked at some high end chairs The chair which looks like … Continue reading →

Got a bunch drives that a needed to replace, kind of a pain. I finished one on my media center, and my backup server. It was a lot of work to get in to. I did swim today, got a … Continue reading →

Last night I had a scare, one of the archive checksums did not match up. Luckily got backups and it was discovered while I was replacing the hard drives. One thing I been on lately is checking on the health … Continue reading →