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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

Fresh HDD space arrived

[https://vleeuwen.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/zoom-WD30EZRX.jpg]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

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’. [https:

Home server HDD upgrade

Home server HDD upgrade

It’s been 1,5 year since I build a new home server [https://vleeuwen.net/2009/10/a-green-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’