After years of customer routers abuse you see here, I decided to finally build something small, efficient and exactly what I want/need. Not too big, not too tiny… My requirements for my routers use to be...
When I start building my new Workstation, I wanted RAID10 as the main boot drive. Firstly, I was testing mixed 500GB drives like WD Black x1, Hitachi x2, and Seagate 7200.11 (I knew this...
A not long time ago, I saw one of 2.5in, 500GB Seagate SSHD FireCuda hybrids – ST500LX025. Fast 8GB SSD inside of normal HDD, up to 140MB/s transfer, SATA III. One way of saying:...
Hardware – A bit of boring history… Going back in time, my first Wi-Fi router was the US. Robotics USR8054 802.11g Wireless Turbo Router with its 4x 100Mbit LAN and turbo Wi-Fi nobody else...
Uninterruptible Power Supply as they call them (or UPS in short) is a nice device. In contrary to common beliefs, it’s not that expensive but is very, very useful. I am a firm believer,...
Looking through internet magazines and forums, I found everywhere the same subject: people are using devices called NAS (Network Attached Storage). The range is from straightforward devices based on very power-efficient ARM CPUs with...
Quite recently I was crawling through few forums and I just realised that there is some sort of prejudice towards non-Intel-based NAS systems. There is always someone saying that you must have: Intel C2xx chipset...
…it’s not the end of the world. Not yet. It was a very nice day, when just out of blue, 2 of my 6 hard drives in RaidZ2 configured pool, start having hiccups (read:...
