Kobol My First NAS At the start of this year I began thinking about a dedicated storage solution for household use. Currently I use a multi purpose server running 24/7 for home storage, but since this one started to reach it's max capacity and read write disk performance is poor it was clear
Debian Fresh HDD space arrived Two years have past since I installed two 2TB disks on my home server. Last week I squeezed out the remaining bytes of my data volume, so I ordered two brand new 3TB Western Digital harddisks (WD30EZRX) to replace the current 2TB ones. Two things prevented an upgrade as easy
ASM Oracle 11g ASM disk discovery During the installation of Oracle 11gR2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 I stumbled upon a incorrect default setting for ASM disk discovery when using ASM lib. The discovery path is set to ‘/dev/raw/sd*’, which is incorrect because ASM lib creates the devices under ‘/dev/oracleasm/disks’. Another
Harddisk Home server HDD upgrade It’s been 1,5 year since I build a new home server. I’m quite happy with this system, but lately I am running out of hard disk space. This is mainly caused by HD movie editing which I’m recently into. That’s why I bought two new
