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    CenturyLink

    Hopping Mad. I run a multi-WAN environment, yesterday it started dropping, anywhere from every 10 to every 20 minutes my PFSense router would flag the service as down, and then before the full switch over, the failover could occur the heartbeat would come back. This was of course killing...
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    DIY Builds, Lessons Learned

    DIY Lessons Learned So you are thinking of building yourself a box, be it a router, a NAS, or HTPC there are some tips in helping you make those build decision. Most of these have been covered in various threads here, I’m just putting them here for easy reference. 5/13 - This is a work in...
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    2U Case Woes

    Hep, I've recently bought a very nice used SuperMicro motherboard, the X7DBI+ for $99 bucks on eBay. Sweet. And to house it a nice, new Chenbro RM21502 case (also from eBay). Now here's the hassle, turns out my SM MB, is not E-ATX ( 12"x13" ) but "enhanced" E-ATX, which is 13x13.68 inches...
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    Petabyte in a Rack

    Tom's Hardware just ran an article about the Half a million dollar Petarack, from Aberdeen - a storage appliance providing One petabyte of storage in a single rack. It runs a variant of OpenSolaris, and ZFS. And strongly advocates against hardware raid, and unlike the Pod approach uses...
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    Deciding Between Synology vs. QNAP

    http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/nas/nas-features/31592-deciding-between-synology-vs-qnap Nice piece, Tim. Thanks. I really wanted to call this thread "ReadyNAS or Thecus?" The most interesting part of the article for me, was the list of market leaders. There was an article not to long ago...
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    Meta-Poll

    There is a major mystery, folks post polls all the time, and yet they rarely get a response. The only poll I posted has had nearly five hundred folks read it, but only got 14 responses, really thirteen since I clicked an answer. Quite a few polls get no responses at all. So here is a poll to...
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    Article on WPA/WPA2 Cracking

    Toms Hardware has a pretty exhaustive article on Cracking WPA/WPA2 and what precautions a guy can take to reduce that infinitesimal probability that it could happen to you. Wi-Fi Security: Cracking WPA With CPUs, GPUs, And The Cloud
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    Quiet Rack for 4U NAS & 1U Switch

    Ol' Shuck, a 4U Rackmount SAN/NAS DIY project has turned out to be a bit of a pain, loud, that combined with the recent addition of a PowerConnect managed switch, and I have noise issues. The initial plan to leave the beast in the back office casita, didn't work out, the Phoenix Summer would...
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    Cisco and Abuses of Human Rights in China

    EFF Briefing on Cisco's Involvement in the Great Firewall of China Not exactly technical, but I found shocking Cisco's lead in building a system for the Chinese, a system that they knew would be used to make the life of anyone who expressed political dissent a living hell. Just found it...
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    DIY NAS: HDD Wholesale Buy?

    By my count there are at four different folks here looking to populate a DIY NAS, including myself. I suspect there are an additional group of lurkers looking to do the same thing. If we were all to buy our HDD's together, we could possibly get a real deal, hopefully a steep discount. I...
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    Lagniappe: pfSense as UTM, Anti-Spam Write up

    As part of the pfSense as UTM series I wrote an AntiApam section, because it was very technical, and because SpamD is included in pfSense 2.0, this section was not included in the published UTM series. Since it was alot of work and an original solution that can be used as a model for...
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    What do you use your NAS for?

    When writing for SNB, I often try to figure out what info the reader is most interested in, what they are looking to find. This of course begs the question, how are users using the Tech I write about. So, what the hell, why not ask? (anonymously - the poll is completely blind) Thanks.
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    Universities to bring 1Gbps broadband to local communities

    Article from CNet today: Universities to bring 1Gbps broadband to local communities A group of 29 universities in the U.S. is banding together to bring ultra-high-speed broadband access to the communities surrounding their campuses in an effort to attract start-ups and spur innovation...
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    How To Build a Cheap Petabyte Server: Revisited

    Be nice to see performance figures. Each SATA port handles five drives, what kind of hit does the that kind of multiplying have on SATA performance? Each PCIe lane can only handle what 2.5Gbs? Spread across 15 drives at 3Gbs each, across a 3Gbs channel, without the cache of a raid...
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    For Sale or Trade: Thecus N5200

    Seeking a home for a sadly decommissioned Original Thecus N5200, 5-Bay, No HDD, NAS. His name was BigDog. $180 Willing to trade for used server memory: 16GB ( 8x2GB ) DDR2-400 ECC Registered Memory Condition: Tearfully shutdown tonight, disks pulled. Has run like a champ, never a...
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    Build Your Own Fibre Channel SAN

    I'm seeing in NASPT benchmark mysterious performance figures for File Copy to NAS - all the other figures are where you would expect them to be, but this figure is anomalously way low. Stripe size isn't enough to explain the figure, and (a bit of a preview) it doesn't get better under SAN...
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