I was doing some research to buy a new hard disk to store my digital life on. The hard disk industry is going through interesting times the last few years. Disk capacities mostly plateued, rotational speeds have slowed down and for the first time we see bigger drives being slower…
I just thought of a quick and dirty way to informally test the performance of data hashing. Setting a baseline dd if=/dev/zero bs=64k status=progress | cat >/dev/null 24847384576 bytes (25 GB, 23 GiB) copied, 4 s, 6.2 GB/s So we get 6.2GB/…
At home I have small always-on NAS aka file server aka headless linux machine. It has served me well for almost half a decade. I have gradually migrated all my data on that server. It also serves as an ad-hoc VPN, web server, torrent box and more. By both need…
Yet another test post...…