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Unraid Media Server Built

I have been running an Unraid as my network attached storage for about 5 years now. Recently I was able to test out its recoverability when a 6g WD Blue went completely belly up. Long story short, the parity protection worked like a charm and I lost no data. Crisis averted! I took the opportunity […]

Photo cloud storage options

An excellent article comparing options out there for cloud-based photo and video storage. Comments pretty much mirror my own experiences. My personal favorites are Flickr and SmugMug due to their extreme cost efficiency for large number of RAW photos. http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/29/4560364/best-cloud-storage-photo-apps

A sensitive case

Even though I’ve been switching back and forth between Windows and linux for over 10 years, I still get caught out by Windows being non-case sensitive… arrrgggghhh!