The Synology array finally finished its scrubbing operation. It took almost three days -- actually longer than a rebuild. After scrubbing, I tried once more to expand the volume: The storage manager showed that it was confirming the parity, but with no progress … [Read more...]
Still more Synology problems
This last 4TB disk almost finished its rebuild, then the progress indicator went backwards. I waited. It usually takes about 2 days for a rebuild. This time it took closer to three. Then, as before, the NAS box stopped serving files. Rather than restart, I shut it down from the … [Read more...]
Another Synology hang
The repair of the array ended just like the last time -- with a hang. The Synology NAS box stopped serving files. I went into the admin console and saw that it thought it was still repairing: Went I looked at the volume, it said repairing, but the progress … [Read more...]
The great Barracuda die-off
As I said a couple of posts ago, I'm replacing the 3TB Seagate Barracuda drives that have had such terrible reliability -- 4 failures out of 8 disks in a little over two years -- in one or my Synology NAS boxes. I've decided to to this in place, by replacing eachof the four … [Read more...]
Toyota’s great sales strategy
From an article in today's WSJ: Clever, huh? … [Read more...]
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