In this post we have a video about setting up some SAMBA shares on the server, then mapping them to drives on a Windows box. We will create a share for the users home directory, and one for a general shared directory. Along the way, there are a few additional items that will be covered. But this is basically it, the ser4ver is up and running and we have sharable disk space.
In this post we will take a look at the snapraid application. This program provides fault tolerance through a form of stand alone parity. (more…)
This post is more of a discussion than anything else. Mainly because there are a plethora of ways to use multiple storage drives. And while we are probably not going to hit every single method, we want to hit most of the major classifications. (more…)
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Drive Failure, if you have not been there you do not want to go there. No matter how robust current drive technology is, at some point you will experience a drive failure. (more…)