Posts tagged with 'nas'


Replacing the drives in our NAS

We have a NAS (Network-Attached Storage) device on our network which is basically used a repository for the backups from our laptops. It’s a Synology DS418, and I bought it nearly 4 years ago when we moved into our house. At the time, I bought four WD Red 2TB drives to go into it in a RAID format (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) and it’s done some stellar work since then. […]

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A backup is only as good as…

…the restore you want to do from it. […]

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Using Data Replicator 3 on a Synology DS212 – don’t

As mentioned in this post, I bought a Synology DS212 NAS for our home network, especially as our Acer WHS had a minor hiccup from overheating during the Waldo Canyon fire (we had to keep the windows shut from the smoke on some of the hottest days of the year). […]

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Updating our home network router

There were several cascading events in the run up to buying a new router: […]

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