Making do with less: Openfiler for networked storage

By mike

It’s inevitable: hard drives just fall by the wayside. Even more so with the switch from IDE to SATA over the last couple of years. Where I work, large amounts of data had been stored on single spinning IDE disks (bad), so one of my goals was to migrate that data to redundant arrays for better protection. OK, that’s fine. But what to do with the oddly-sized 500 and 750gig IDE hard drives that end up in a pile on your desk?

One word: NAS. (okay, so it’s an acronym for Network Attached Storage)

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The magical levitating Wee

By mike

Took a little trickery and cutting a hole in my ceiling to route a cable over the top of one of the garage rafters, but I managed to get the DL650 up in the air enough to get both wheels off at once.

Now we’ve just got to drop the wheels off at a shop to get tires mounted…