Rui CarmoIt’s couch potato weather and I’ve been trying to enjoy a bit of peace and quiet, which seems to be a fitting end to a week with relatively little tinkering.
On that topic, two things are worthy of note: the first is that after my recent Arcane and OpenAI hack I ended up replicating the upscaling and tagging process for my insanely long collection of Bing wallpapers.
The second is that after almost five years, I finally upgraded my Synology NAS with a couple of new 8TB HDDs (a trivial, but slow process that mostly entailed swapping each drive and then waiting a day or so for the array to rebuild each time).
This gives me a little breathing room and allows me to start rotating the older 4TB drives to the Terramaster NAS I’m testing, but I need to budget for more drives since I want to build a full ZFS pool.
It’s a bit annoying that ZFS still isn’t as flexible as proprietary RAID approaches. Synology gets dissed every now and then because they use a semi-proprietary RAID approach (SHR), but it works seamlessly with differently-sized drives and lets you upgrade your storage pools in chunks.