Raspberry Pi 2 fun this weekend! Quite successfully managed to relocate / to an external disk.  In my case, the external disk is an old 1TB hard drive in one of these snazzy docks (does not pass S.M.A.R.T. data).  Then I tried it with an SSD to see if it was any faster.  It was, but […]

A while back, I got the itch for some retail therapy and bought a 2U, 12-bay Supermicro from the nice folks over at Garland Computers.  Couple of quad E5-somethings, a tooon of RAM, and a bit of capacity in the form of a ZFS array smeared over a mish-mash 1- and 2TB hard drives.  Things were […]