To see the background / context to this post, check out part 1.The tl;dr is that I’m trying to re-purpose older parts to house my many various hard drives, and create a somewhat affordable and flexible NAS. Now, why don’t
Building your own cloud storage (Part 1)
This is the first of a multi-part series on investigating, designing, and developing my own NAS system. Like many geeks, I have lots of files. To compound this issue, I have a hobby in Media production. This means lots of
When old tech makes no sense (Part 1)
This will be a long one, but hopefully it can dissuade others (or perhaps point someone else in another direction). The image to the left is a photo of a NAS system. I purchased it in 2009 and at $200
Greetings, and Welcome to Column80
Hello! Welcome. Here you will find a mix of thoughts on a wide-range of topics. The authors on this site once wrote on a different site; that died over 8 years ago (mostly cos of a lack of time). I’m