iSCSI Time Machine drive

Despite my previous post on how to get Time Machine backing up to a network drive, this turned out to be flaky. So far using iSCSI has been bomb proof and without having to do anything arcane, it is likely a lot more reliable.

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Raid Costs – 2

Since it’s been two years since my last raid cost analysis, I figured it was about time to do another one.

Goals:

  • increase my storage. Currently 1000GB using raid5 (3 x 500GB drives)
  • preferably only use 2 drives as it costs money to spin an extra drive
  • not spend too much

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Maze Solver

I saw a recent post of the most incredible maze I’ve ever seen. Well I just had to solve it.
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