I haven’t discussed my latest toy yet. I bet some of my more nerdy friends would like to know about it though. I got a NAS (Network Attached Storage). It’s a Synology DS408. Of course a week or so after I ordered mine a new model came out, but oh well, these things happen. I put 4 1TB Western Digital Green drives in there in a RAID 6 configuration. Giving me close to 2 terabyte of safe storage. Two drives can drop dead and I still won’t lose any data. It’s actually a little computer with a small processor and a little bit of memory which has a version of Linux and proprietary admin software.  So it uses a lot less energy than a normal pc.

Unfortunately in the first week the power supply died… I still have to return it. I did buy a spare one though, which I am using now. Don’t want to be caught with a dead NAS again. For days I wasn’t able to watch Futurama. The horror…

All the computers in the house now have access to it and can access the multimedia files stored on there and also use it for backups.