Month: May 2020

Big Tech Censorship Now Reaches into Your Cloud Storage

May 28, 2020 Fakenews New World Order 0

the big tech companies now also search your cloud archives for “inappropriate: content. build your own storage and do not expect the cloud to keep your data safe…unless you setup Pre-encrypted cloud backups..then the big tech folks cannot see your content..yet you have a cloud backup. True you are using their platform under their rules…but… Read more

Rack Consolidation: Finale

May 19, 2020 Freenas Hardware Open Source Rack Consolidation Software Storage Technology 0

Finally, it is completed.  I won’t use finished because the implies it will never change…and we all know life is all about change.  So what’s the final product look like? The rack is full.  Sure if I wanted to I could squish everything together and get a couple of more U’s worth of gear..but i… Read more

Rack Consolidation: Part 4.3

May 17, 2020 Freenas Hardware Open Source Rack Consolidation Software Storage Technology 0

Well got everything installed and completed the initial data replication.  I went upstairs and removed all of the servers from the rack.  I then removed all of the rails.  I then re-installed the rails and then re-racked the servers.  The r210 did not make it back as it was dead anyway.  The order is now… Read more

Rack Consolidation: Part 4.1

May 15, 2020 Freenas Hardware Open Source Software Storage Technology 0

Just like that.  Another day arrives and the eBay shop where i bought the hard drives did me a solid.  Instead of putting the two pairs of drives into two boxes he jsut shipped all four in the same box.  I’ll be giving all the eBay vendors that were involved in my build excellent feedback… Read more

Rack Consolidation: Part 4

May 14, 2020 Freenas Hardware Open Source Rack Consolidation Software Storage Technology 0

Finally got some parts in for the 520 that allow me to start getting it put together.  I have half of the SAS hard drives, the SD card connector(don’t want to say SD card card..<G>), an extra 64 gigs of ram, all of the drive caddies, and of course the SD cards themselves.  Read the… Read more

Rack Consolidation: Part 3

May 10, 2020 Freenas Hardware Open Source Rack Consolidation Storage Technology 1

The project continues..:)  I was able to take the ram, CPU’s, and HBAH310 (reflashed to base LSI IT mode) out of the 420 and put them into the 520.  I now have the rest of the parts inbound:  8 x 6TB SAS HDD’s, SD card adapter, 8 x 3.5″ HDD caddies are all inbound.  I… Read more

Should we be afraid of worshiping the lord in groups…including singing?

May 10, 2020 Christianity Church Churchianity Covid-19 Faith Health 0

Of course not.  However with this covid thing around folks, especially Christians, are the first ones hiding in their houses finding reasons to NOT gather and worship.  Now comes an article that basically says singing in a group is so much more deadly that we should consider not doing it.  The article, written by a… Read more

Education during a manufactured crisis

May 8, 2020 Covid-19 Family Frederick County Health Technology 0

(This is the first post in a series…i will go into greater detail later) For a while I never though I could homeschool..but covid has shown me something: I think for students and families that can do it distance learning should be an option. If 25% or more opt in the amount of money that… Read more

Rack Consolidation: part 2

May 6, 2020 Freenas Hardware Open Source Rack Consolidation Software Storage Technology 0

I got the 520 in and began poking around. First of all I fired up the machine as a test and it booted fine. I then ran the lifecycle controller’s firmware updater. This machine was far far behind so i told it to install all of the updates. I stuck with it for a few… Read more