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. No limitations by the size of one disk/volume that you add, instead all disks are combined together in volumes (and you have multiple columes) that you define, the you slice…
Month: July 2026
I Like the NUCs (fanless tiny servers, except when the heatwave happens)
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