Olografix Tech Blog

Currently building my backup solution. I've ordered a d-link DNS-320 from Tigerdirect.ca for 99$ (wow!) with two 1TB drives that will run in RAID1. The DNS-320 is, on paper, a great update to the d-link lineup! It has a built-in ftp server and an Ajax-based file browser to maintain files remotely among other things. I'll do a write-up once everything is setup. The Barracuda's ( Seagate ST31000520AS Barracuda LP ) are in and waiting for their new home. This is my first time ordering drives online so I really hope they are not DOA when I pop them in. I know how delicate the postal service people can be... These Barracudas have good reviews. At 5900 RPMs they should be able to handle backups and streaming (that's a whole other project!) while keeping the heat down. One terabyte should be fine for now... Who would have thought memory would be so cheap? I know I will look back at this and 1TB will sounds ridiculously small, but right now, it's alot of storage! W...

Here's something everyone should do, but nobody does : Backup. And part of those that do backup, don't do it well. Like me. Not so recently, I was upgrading my computer and had to reformat my hard drive. No problem I thought, transfer everything to my external hard drive, clean format my computer and get everything back from my external hard drive. Right? Wrong. My external drive decided to die on me in the exact same time frame that my computer was being setup. So I lost everything, well, almost. I had been given a free 1-year subscription to Carbonite and had given it a try. You install a client on your PC, tell it what folder you want to backup and everything is sent over on the web to secure encrypted servers (at least we hope it is secure!). The thing is pictures are synced automatically, but not videos, they need to be synced manually. Being the optimist that I am, I never synced my videos. I know, idiot. What this means is I could get all my pictures back and now th...