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So, one of my Maxtors was no good. It was exceedingly weird. When formatted into the RAID it would fail immediately. But when I threw it into the Mac, I wrote zeros to the whole thing and all was well.Continue reading… Damn your eyes again Samba

Well it worked. I’m drinking more pepsi now. But I’m 5 songs into “Come Clean” by Puddle of Mudd. Thanks Pepsi. Listening to: “Come Clean” by Puddle of Mudd

So, I did some experimenting. I started up FTP on Fluffy my RAID box, and did some tinkering. Transfering files to the server I was getting about 30mb/s. Not bad, but not great. I scratched my head for a littleContinue reading… Hurray … Kind of

The RAID box has been built. Yes the case is cheap and shitty, but it does the job. I installed Fedora onto the box and that went pretty smoothly. One of my 250gb drives is in the hands of anotherContinue reading… It Has Begun

Fedex is currently ushering the constituent elements of my new Linux RAID to my front door. I’m hoping beyond hope to have them today, but I fear it’s a vain hope. Newegg.com has supplied my case, video card, MLB andContinue reading… The Time Has Come

So, I got my first blog spam. I’m not proud of this fact. I have put an agreement on the post page stating that if you post a commercial comment, you’re agreeing to pay me $500 per post for advertising.Continue reading… Spam bitches

So, recently dvd media has gotten a lot cheaper. I picked up 50 printable 1x dvd-r discs from Fry’s for $60 bucks the other day and am now engaged in some archiving action. I currently have about 300GB of dataContinue reading… Archiving