Month: July 2026

63 terabytes of storage built from 8 USB drives in “RAID 1” configuration — I.e. you don’t lose data even if one drive goes dead. A bit of background: I started a (multi-domain) web service ten years ago. I wanted some extra storage as backups. To start with… this is a completely safe, benign operation…

I have a tower built on NUCs built to serve email/web/VPN/wifi/etc Only after the California Heatwave did I realize that you can’t just stash the whole system in a closet without some FANs for cooling — The Manufacturer suggested Amazon Infinity Fans, which have now worked beautifully. smartctl -ax /dev/nvme0