Nerve-racking ~24 hours. Setting up new storage array and because I don't have enough disks for completely safe execution, I'm taking one from the old array and putting it in new one. So old is not fully protected and new is building.
I was sorting through old drives recently (as geeks do) and wondered if anyone has pulled out the insides of a few old SSDs and combined them into one franken-SSD drive by physically linking them with a new controller chip. #diy#hardwareHacking#storage#SSD#microElectronics
The first two steps where very simple, adding the well-known and actor json, these are static and I can set the content-type in #azure#storage very easily.
Running out of iCloud storage. I don't want to pay for 2TB, so deleting stuff from my photo library. The originals I imported in, so it's not as though I'm losing anything. But am still exporting them before deletion, just in case. #backups#storage#icloud
"Go big or go home" someone said to me once. I see your witty quote and raise you going big AT home.
Building a new NAS. Kicking it off with 3x 20TB drives. Probably going to pull over a couple of 12 TBs from the old NAS once I move files. Should bring things up to just over 60TB. 2x NVME slots for OS and Caching. Haven't quite worked out what I'm putting in those yet.
Unraid has been mostly good but I think I'm going TrueNAS Scale this time.
The one thing I don't like about @fastmail is that you are limited to 100GB of email storage and there appears to be no way to increase that limit unless I'm missing something somewhere.
While 100GB seems sufficient, I'd really like to have at least 500GB of storage.
On my Gmail account I could purchase extra storage and I had 2TB of storage and was using 54% of that.
The lovely people at Mokin keep sending me their USB-C hubs to review, and I'm happy to do so. They work splendidly with my Linux and Windows machines, and they provide more ports than I ever thought necessary.
Plug your power adapter into the hub, and then the hub into your laptop. With most hubs, that's it; you've lost a C port. This has an extra USB-C port - so you don't lose anything. Personally, I'd prefer more USB-C ports.
Instead, you get 3x USB-A 3.0 ports, and 2x USB-A 2.0 ports. That's a lot of room for peripherals. They're all well spaced out, so you should be able to cram everything in.
All these sorts of hubs tend to have an SD slot and a microSD slot. Read and write speeds hit the limit of the cards I had - but you may be better off using the USB 3 ports if you really need speed. Speaking of which...
Obviously, if you have a hundred gadgets plugged in - and only one USB-C cable - there's a limit to the total throughput. That said, the Ethernet port topped out my 650Mbps broadband - and I don't have anything much faster than that!
There are two HDMI ports and a legacy VGA port. I'll be honest, I can't remember the last time I needed to plug my laptop into an analogue video cable. But I guess if you go to lots of crappy conference venues it might be useful?
My old laptop was able to drive two monitors at the same time, which was pretty useful. You're limited to one at 4k@60Hz - if you're using two HDMI, you'll only get 30Hz. But if you're happy with 1080p, you'll get 60Hz on both.
USB's Power Delivery mode is a still a bit confusing. I used a 100W Dell charger and, USB-C PD tester saw that about 80% of the power was making it to the laptop.
With the power unplugged, the hub drew electricity from the laptop in order to charge all the gadgets.
Weirdly, the analogue sound out didn't show up for me in Linux. I'm not heartbroken by that - either my laptop has a speaker out or the HDMI device does. But it is a bit weird that it didn't show.
As with all modern devices, it is plug-and-play. All my gadgets worked fine with it. This is what Linux sees:
ID 0bda:8153 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8153 Gigabit Ethernet AdapterID 2109:0817 VIA Labs, Inc. USB3.0 Hub ID 2109:0817 VIA Labs, Inc. USB3.0 Hub ID 1a40:0801 Terminus Technology Inc. USB 2.0 Hub2109:8817 VIA Labs, Inc. USB Billboard Device ID 2109:2817 VIA Labs, Inc. USB2.0 Hub ID 2109:2817 VIA Labs, Inc. USB2.0 Hub
It's a neat little halfway house between a small adapter with a couple of ports and a massive docking station. But if you don't need all those ports, there's probably something cheaper.
I guess this is aimed at people plugging in to all sorts of weird screens on their travels. I think a DisplayPort would have been a better choice than double HDMI.
So a bit of a mixed bag. If you need these options, it is close to perfect. But it may be excessive for some.
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Bevor die CES losgeht (bin gerade im Zug zum Flughafen) habe ich noch ein Schmankerl für Euch. Ein kleiner Rückblick auf das de facto tote Speicherkartenformat UFS. Die Karten gab es meines Wissens nur von Samsung. UFS lebt natürlich weiter. Aber halt in Geräten und nicht mehr als Kärtchen. Schade irgendwie. Bei UFS-Karten muss man nicht erst die Specs studieren um die 500-SD-Karten-Logos zu verstehen. ;)
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Form claims a duration of 100 hours for its new iron-air battery. In its least dense configuration, a one megawatt system comprises half an acre of land.
Form also has a sulfur-based flow battery in the works.
Microsoft inches closer to glass storage breakthrough that could finally make ransomware attacks impossible in the data center
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Yo you #zfs heads. I'm using raidz in 3 2tb hard drives that is primarily going to be used for media storage. What are all the options I need! Tell me where all the bodies are!.
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