I was doing some research to buy a new hard disk to store my digital life on. The hard disk industry is going through interesting times the last few years. Disk capacities mostly plateued, rotational …
I just thought of a quick and dirty way to informally test the performance of data hashing. Setting a baseline dd if=/dev/zero bs=64k status=progress | cat >/dev/null 24847384576 bytes (25 GB, 23 …
At home I have small always-on NAS aka file server aka headless linux machine. It has served me well for almost half a decade. I have gradually migrated all my data on that server. It also serves as …
Yet another test post...