August 10, 2016
I was on holidays a few weeks ago and decided to replace an aging Mac Pro that I had been using as a Plex server with a new FreeNAS box, since I could run a jail with Plex. So I used the four 3TB WD Red drives in the Mac Pro with another two new similar drives to construct a new …
December 7, 2013
Actually, it’s not much of an adventure so much as a reminder. I’m used to doing software RAID on Linux with mdadm and am fully comfortable with the commandline tools – in fact, I prefer them to any GUI tools that may or may not be out there (for example, if I …
April 12, 2011
This week’s techmail was Redundancy and flexibility with RAID1+LVM which talks about how to combine RAID1 with LVM for a few rich, flexible storage management solution. The tip describes how to get started with setting up RAID and LVM (although here’s a hint: the …
March 23, 2010
This week’s TechMail is Replace a failed drive in Linux RAID which goes into the fun I had on a Sunday afternoon a few weeks ago replacing a drive in my backup box at my mother’s place. All-in-all it was dead simple and very painless, which just goes to show how …