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Apr. 3rd, 2022 02:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psipsyMy home server was running FreeNAS 11.3 for a bit over a year. I tried updating it to TrueNAS 12. I then lost access to my files, which defeated the purpose of having a home server as a shared drive. It took the update, I could still log in to the console, Plex still worked, but no access to any files. I poked at settings, read forum posts, tried this, tried that, nothing. I rolled it back to 11.3 and poof! I get my files and shared drive back. Updated security is great and all but it's no substitute for shit that works. I'd rather have "insecure shit that works" than "very secure because it doesn't do anything".
On the plus side, when it updated, it didn't write over the older version, it just made a new one, and then I can select which one I can boot from. So, if I have an epiphany about how to make TrueNAS work, I can just reboot into the newer one, fiddle with the right settings, and see how that works. It can do that because each working install takes up only about 1GB of space.
Recently, I had to retire a pair of 2TB hard drives that were in a RAID1 array. They had been in non-stop use for over 8 years and one of them was starting to generate a lot of errors. They were from the same batch, so it was only a matter of time for the other. I put a pair of 4TB drives in place. Hopefully I can get another 8 years out of that array.
I feel a need to go to antique malls, flea markets, yard sales, and 2nd-hand stores more often. There are two kinds of people who shop at those places: People who need to save money when getting basic necessities, and people looking for rare and vintage items. The two groups usually coexist peacefully: The low-budget shoppers don't need old electronics, and the vintage shoppers don't need used clothes. The appeal is in finding things I didn't know existed, or thought I'd never see again.
Most of the time, visits to these places tend to be busts, and I end up walking away empty-handed. That's okay. I know that it's only a matter of time before I find one that has something interesting or useful, and it doesn't take long.
Some things I've spotted so far but didn't buy: A CED player and discs, a giant pile of Lionel train cars (I'm not in O-scale), bootleg Lego minifigs (I know they didn't make a Sailor Moon set), rusty tools, old license plates, a 2MP digital camera that used a memory card format I never saw before, and so on; too much to really list.
What is a CED player? Imagine something that as soon as it came out in 1981, was already rendered obsolete by Laserdisc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitance_Electronic_Disc
There are limits to how much of a hipster I can be.
On the plus side, when it updated, it didn't write over the older version, it just made a new one, and then I can select which one I can boot from. So, if I have an epiphany about how to make TrueNAS work, I can just reboot into the newer one, fiddle with the right settings, and see how that works. It can do that because each working install takes up only about 1GB of space.
Recently, I had to retire a pair of 2TB hard drives that were in a RAID1 array. They had been in non-stop use for over 8 years and one of them was starting to generate a lot of errors. They were from the same batch, so it was only a matter of time for the other. I put a pair of 4TB drives in place. Hopefully I can get another 8 years out of that array.
I feel a need to go to antique malls, flea markets, yard sales, and 2nd-hand stores more often. There are two kinds of people who shop at those places: People who need to save money when getting basic necessities, and people looking for rare and vintage items. The two groups usually coexist peacefully: The low-budget shoppers don't need old electronics, and the vintage shoppers don't need used clothes. The appeal is in finding things I didn't know existed, or thought I'd never see again.
Most of the time, visits to these places tend to be busts, and I end up walking away empty-handed. That's okay. I know that it's only a matter of time before I find one that has something interesting or useful, and it doesn't take long.
Some things I've spotted so far but didn't buy: A CED player and discs, a giant pile of Lionel train cars (I'm not in O-scale), bootleg Lego minifigs (I know they didn't make a Sailor Moon set), rusty tools, old license plates, a 2MP digital camera that used a memory card format I never saw before, and so on; too much to really list.
What is a CED player? Imagine something that as soon as it came out in 1981, was already rendered obsolete by Laserdisc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitance_Electronic_Disc
There are limits to how much of a hipster I can be.
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