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“Copy-on-write (CoW) changes that bargain in a way that almost feels like cheating. Instead of rushing to overwrite old blocks, a CoW file system writes the changed data somewhere else and then updates its map. […]
“Instead of getting a cheap but very sluggish flash drive, consider buying a USB SSD that looks like a regular thumb drive but is way faster and only slightly more expensive.” I haven’t bought a […]
I have a physical server running at home that has a few services running on it, including Nginx Proxy Manager to route external network traffic to an OpenWebRx SDR that I host at home. The […]
This is quite interesting, but something not mentioned is performance of a virtual hard disk. I’m familiar with virtual disks from using virtual machines like VirtualBox, QEMU, etc. But what I found was that if […]
NextCloud is great, but it tends to be heavyweight and packs a ton of extra functionality in. OxiCloud may be worth considering if you are looking for something a lot lighter and faster. OxiCloud requires […]
This is an interesting idea to use those SSD drives that you may have upgraded, because if an SSD drive is left for too many months without being plugged in, it can lose its data. […]
Expanding the capacity of even the best NAS is simple. Fill the enclosure with as many drives as it supports, and add an external enclosure once the primary system is fully populated. Larger drives can […]
It’s a pretty established fact that adding an SSD to an old PC is one of the biggest improvements to its overall performance. But what about if you already have an SSD but are tempted […]
I’m starting to find my external backup drive is getting too small to back my data partition up fully (I have a large second internal hard drive that does still get the job done automatically […]
Key seems to be charging it to only 50% and turning it off and storing it in that state, with a recharge back to 50% every 6 months (you do remember to set an alarm […]
