EPISODE · Apr 24, 2020 · 31 MIN
2.5 Admins 01: ZFS love-fest
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In our first episode, Allan Jude, Jim Salter, and Joe Ressington discuss Amazon cutting affiliate rates, SMR hard drives, and setting up off-site backups on the cheap. News Amazon reportedly planning drastic cuts to affiliate commission rates Buyer beware—that 2TB-6TB “NAS” drive you’ve been eyeing might be SMR Seagate says Network Attached Storage and SMR don’t mix Western Digital admits 2TB-6TB WD Red NAS drives use shingled magnetic recording Seagate ‘submarines’ SMR into 3 Barracuda drives and a Desktop HDD Toshiba desktop disk drives have shingles too Western Digital implies WD Red NAS SMR drive users are responsible for overuse problems Free Consulting Joe has ~2TB of data that should be backed up off-site. Jim and Allan discuss the best ways to do that on a low budget. Send your questions for Jim and Allan to show@ the show website domain: 2.5admins.com
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