This article describes the S.M.A.R.T. setup on tennessine, my Arch Linux file server. S.M.A.R.T. is a capability built into most modern hard drives (mechanical and
Again, I chose Btrfs over ZFS since the former is shipped with the latest kernel, and seemed to be the least headache when it comes to upgrading the OS. However, I hear ZFS
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After my experience with purchasing and using a QNAP NAS (a TS-559 Pro+ bought in 2010), I wanted to build my own using Arch Linux. The QNAP taught me a few things,
Unless you have a static IPv4 address with your ISP, it is likely that your WAN IPv4 address will change at some point. If you want to be able to access your home
Having a caching Domain Name System (DNS) daemon is not a hard requirement for a home router, but most commercial routers have some caching DNS capabilities, as well as providing mappings between hostnames