In preparation for shutting down the old file server, I checked the status of the Drobo rebuild of the array. It finished overnight last night. That means that it took two weeks to rebuild a 5.44 TB (net) four-disk array with 4.21 TB of data on it. Ridiculous. … [Read more...]
A new server
I wrote recently about abandoning Drobo in favor of Synology. I now have three Synology boxes running: a 1511+ from before, and two new ones, an 1812+ and an 1512+ (the current version of the 1511+). I’ve got 3 TB drives in the 8 bay box and one of the 5-bay ones, and 2TB drives … [Read more...]
Drobo — the end of the road
Strike one A couple of weeks ago I swapped out the disk pack on my USB-connected Drobo. The new pack had last been written before I got my Dell T7500 workstation, and thus had none of the image files from that computer. I created a directory, and told it to back up all of the … [Read more...]
Great moments in photo uploading
I plugged my D4 into the USB port on my workstation. This is what came up: … [Read more...]
Spontaneous reboots
Yesterday, I stepped into my office, sat down to my Dell T7500 workstation, and noticed that the machine had hung on boot. I had left it on, so the boot had been initiated during the night. The error message said: "No boot device found." I made a mental list of what might be … [Read more...]
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