My work ‘puter is an old M1 Mac, 32gb ram and 500gb hard drive. And here I am, 2026, not enough disk space. Unfortunately, the drive keeps filling up. Last time I had to remove things, it turned out Apple was downloading a ton of live backgrounds – 50 gb worth. Since I assume these […]
So recently we called up our service provider to check in about cable/internet service. They notified us that we could get a new modem because they had upgraded their speeds. The modem arrived and had good installation instructions including going to a site to activate it. All seemed OK, took 1/2 an hour. Testing off […]
The time came this week when I decided to replace my aging 500GB drives with something bigger and newer so I purchased two 2TB drives for about $95 a piece and started the task of dropping them into my NAS server planning for my usual mirrored configuration. I’m concerned with long term redundant storage on […]
I’ve had beautiful DLink DNS-343 NAS server for a few years now and I love it. It takes four drives, currently I have two 500 gb drives mirrored and two 1 tb drives mirrored. Everything goes on them, gets backed up, etc. Hook it up to the local router box and it just runs, dammit. […]