If you have ever bought a used hard drive or pulled a hard drive from a NAS unit or other machine, it may have an incompatible file system installed on it, or just has a bunch of data you don’t care to have on it anymore. From within Windows you can easily wipe all the […]
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Intro When building a NAS, many users prefer to have a compact unit, which usually means if you’re building your own, the use of a Mini ITX motherboard. This can typically limit expansion options, unless you’re willing to pay a significant fee for a higher end motherboard like the CWWK which is pretty full featured
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I wish I had learned this earlier. But Linux has a simple command that allows you to time how long it takes for a command to complete. It is conveniently named time. This is useful for basic benchmarking or troubleshooting, like copying a file from A to B. When you use the time command, it
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Windows has made it fairly simple to install a fresh operating system by offering a USB installer package where you just plug in a USB thumb drive, run their package, give it a little time and you’re ready to install a new OS on whatever machine you desire. Unfortunately, Microsoft has also made a habit
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OVERVIEW You can see my full video review of this case here: https://youtu.be/fWhUqTJQPrI The Jonsbo N2 NAS case is designed for use with a Mini ITX form factor motherboard and supports SFX power supplies. It has a backplane for hot swap of up to five 3.5″ SATA hard drives. It has an all black aluminum
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July 1, 2023 I am posting this here but you can also view video showing the results (YouTube Video of SMR Test Results), or on my Reddit post here: REDDIT POST TO SMR RESULTS. There is basically the same content whether in this blog, the reddit post, or video, except I go into more detail
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As hard drive manufacturers continue to stuff the 3.5″ hard drive form factor with more and more storage density, new technologies and adaptations are constantly evolving. With hard drives now containing over 2TB per platter, it’s getting tricky to keep increasing that density. One technology that has been pushed into consumer level drives primarily is
February 05, 2023 S.M.A.R.T. Every hard drive and SSD has status codes that are tracked and stored on your hard drive or SSD, these are called S.M.A.R.T. attributes. You want to check your S.M.A.R.T. status regularly as it can offer a prediction of disk failure. S.M.A.R.T. stands for: Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology and is
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January 24, 2023 Intro When you think of SSD’s, Inland isn’t exactly a name brand that comes to mind, and unless you’ve shopped at Micro Center before you probably didn’t even know it existed. Inland is Micro Center’s in house name brand for a number of PC components. Micro Center, if you’re not aware, is
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Intro January 10, 2023 For the most part when it comes to technology you get what you pay for. But that doesn’t stop many from trying to find a great bargain. SSD prices have been dropping pretty aggressively over the last year. 2TB drives can frequently be found for under $100, but how good are
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