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December 11, 2012

Digital Storage at Home: My storage story

For years I never had any kind of storage or backup plan. From the late 90’s to early 2000’s, I had used 1GB Iomega Jaz drives for storage but over time, I thought I could resort to using CD-ROMs. I also kept adding larger hard disks figuring that I wouldn’t need anything serious. Four years ago, one day I managed...

Categories Hardware/Mini-Series/NAS/Storage Comments: 0
December 3, 2012

Digital Storage at Home: Planning for storage nirvana

You’ve decided to take the plunge into sharing digital storage between your computers, tablets, phones, home theater PCs, etc. Fantastic. It may seem like overkill, but as I’ve pointed out before we have so much to capture, share and download from the Internet, while keeping all the old artifacts will eventually lead to problems with storage space. You may have...

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November 26, 2012

Digital Storage at Home: Why should anyone care?

Over the past five years, my storage needs have grown at a faster rate in comparison to all other technological needs (computers, gaming, consoles, phones, laptops, etc.). At first, I didn’t realize just how large applications and games had become just to install. I didn’t even take in updates and patches for consideration to the overall size. Add that with...

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November 12, 2012

New mini-series: Digital Storage at Home

So, I’m going to be writing up several articles all related to my adventures in home storage technology; namely Network Attached Storage (NAS). Over the past five years, I’ve been investing my time/energy and money into several different storage solutions so I’ll be sharing my experience over the coming weeks.

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November 6, 2012

Election Day 2012

I can’t say I’ve been looking forward to this day but after all the ads on TV and rhetoric on Facebook and among friends, this election cannot be over soon enough. After being through several elections in which I’ve participated (I think three including today), I admire the fact that we can still have a say in our leadership regardless...

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October 1, 2012

Why I won't buy any Android phones

I really want to like Android phones. The new Samsung S3 is very impressive and Android seems to be making more and more progress with each release but the carriers absolutely kill me. According to this article from ArsTechnica, it appears that Motorola won’t be updating their Atrix 4G phone to ICS. Well, I guess I won’t be buying any...

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September 18, 2012

Farewell, Weeds.

It’s been 8 seasons, 100 episodes and I found myself enjoying the series finale of Weeds on Showtime this past Sunday. The simple plot from the beginning of the series was intriguing and the seemly random but fortuitous chaos, destruction and disorder to (albeit) temporary bliss and harmony made Weeds a unique and entertaining show. I really enjoyed the cast....

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September 13, 2012

The new iPhone is here! The new iPhone is here!

Okay so it’s not quite here yet but another iPhone is upon us. As an iPhone owner (3G, 4 and currently 4S), I’m not too keen on sticking with Apple anymore. While the 4″ screen is definitely worth a look and the new camera looks very interesting but somehow, all the glamour has worn off of me and I’m just...

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September 7, 2012

Thoughts on RAID article from ExtremeTech

Immediately upon posting my opinion about Joel Hruska’s article on ExtremeTech yesterday, I felt regretful. I’ve never had the talent for writing. I always appreciate reading from great writers as they’re able to both entertain and educate simultaneously. I figured maybe I was being too judgmental so I decided to give Joel’s article another chance this morning as perhaps I...

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September 6, 2012

RAID is not a backup solution except when it is

I’m not sure what Joel Hruska‘s article is pointing out at ExtremeTech. I’m approaching this article from the perspective a home user or an individual who is not running any business systems or infrastructure. According to Joel: RAID is not a backup. RAID is not a backup, ever. Not RAID 1, not RAID 5, not RAID 6. The “R” in...

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