Ep. 171 "BellingHOME your Data" #tech

For the week of November 15, 2020 Housekeeping * Chris’ interview with the Whatcom Dads Podcast (https://overcast.fm/+lZQ1OUAdk) Bringing your data home BellingHOME your data * Drives driving you mad? * Data bartering; and the price our data is actually worth *NAS vs DAS* * Speed and spec * Even at $1000 real money on drives and a NAS; things are only as fast as your internal/external internal connection and the drives themselves. * How much data do you have and how long IT WILL take to get it on, indexed, and secured on a NAS * This geek took the better part of 2 weeks to migrate just short of 5TB of data * RAID and what that means for a NON geek. * Brands * Synology * QNAP * Drobo * WD MyCloud * Beyond storage * VPN /Email/ Contacts /Calendar * Video/Photo localized hosting * Plex * Website host * Dropbox replacement * Google Docs replacement *Bham Bingo* Slight edit- while we were recording Wa Gov. Inslee announced sweeping changes to our state to help reduce rising covid cases. So as things are changing we are skipping a recommendation of a local place for food this episode... https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/gov-inslee-orders-sweeping-restrictions-on-indoor-gatherings-restaurants-bars-gyms-as-covid-19-cases-surge-in-washington-state/ Quality Assurance *Chris - After seeing the new shiny iPhone products released this fall, Minimalism documentary director and Youtube Vlogger Matt D’Avella is switching to a flip phone - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nX5jwa2QTs * * AJ * * TrueSpies Podcast; https://spyscape.com/podcast/ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bellinghampodcast.substack.com