The last time I wrote about my server was three years ago. A lot has changed since then. Here’s some of the main points: I dropped RAIDZ and have moved onto RAIDZ2. This gives me two parities per vdev RAIDZ2 requires at least 5 disks in a vdev. I chose to go with 7 which […]
Author Archives: Pat Hartl
Flextight Precision II on Windows 7/8/10
My father was a photographer for around 35 years and towards the end of the 20th century he purchased a Imacon (now Hasselblad) Flextight Precision II hybrid film scanner. This was back in the days where digital photography wasn’t feasible for quality and film was king. The Flextight allowed him to scan negatives into a digital […]
Creating A Steam Cache In 15 Minutes
At home I have a custom-built NAS that I use for all of my storage needs. I use it all the time to store files like game client downloads and backups of my games on Steam. It just makes it easier to restore after an install or when a friend needs to copy a game […]
Manual Install of phpMyAdmin
I just thought this was interesting. I usually manually install everything for my home server because I like things organized in a certain way. http://websistent.com/install-phpmyadmin-nginx/