I’ve been working on filling all the bays in my Fractal Node 804 case for months now. I actually filled it awhile ago, but accidentally killed 4 out of 5 brand-new WD drives by using the wrong SATA power connector cable from my modular PSU (note: turns out even…
A couple posts ago I mentioned that my Plex database backup script wasn't handling deleting old backups [https://www.creedofman.com/where-did-all-my-storage-go/], and was eating up space that I had to go in and free up manually. I finally took a couple minutes and added a couple lines to fix…
Early this morning my inbox was filled with alerts from Slickdeals informing me that 10TB Western Digital hard drives were available on Amazon.com for the incredibly low price of $79.99. I thought to myself "literally too good to be true" and ordered as many as I could. I…
I run a home NAS with (currently) 5x8TB HDDs in a raidz zpool. When I migrated from my old cobbled-together NAS, I moved ~18TB of data across to the new ~32TB pool. I was hopeful that the remaining ~14TB would last me for at least 12-18 months before I'd need…