Sex on racks

remind me to wear rubber gloves when next working on Diablo Sound racks.

Okay, so I think I've (finally!) made up my mind. Looking at this 2 bay Synology which I'll fill with the 3TB WD Reds, with the possible intent of swapping them out for the 4TBs when they become available (later this year?), and with the definite intent of expanding the whole system once I've started accumulating enough project data to make it necessary (2 years?).

If I stick with RAID1, that will not give me quite as much space as I'd hoped, i.e., only 3TB, where I think I'll need about 5. But I think I can mitigate that by only using the new NAS for long term storage. Once I've got the new machines loaded with all their current files, I'll prune the old NAS for duplicates, which should give me enough space to allow it to continue as the primary automated backup for the Windows machines. The 3TB USB I'll repartition and dedicate to the Time Machine backups for the iMac. The 1TB USB will remain the active project drive.

And maybe I'll set up the zombie laptop as the media server.

I dunno why I'm telling all of you this, just thinking through the process, I guess.

Why not go with a 4-bay DS413 for the same price?

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You can use two drives and make it SHR (effectively RAID1 with two drives), then expand latter. You can mix drive sizes so with two extra 4TB drives later you can get up to 10TB with redundancy.

Because the 413 isn't further expandable, right? It has an eSata port, but if I'm reading it correctly, it doesn't use the expansion unit, so drives attached to that port or the USBs only function as separate volumes, much like my current problem with the Buffalo NAS.

But I need to hold my horses, because apparently I have a donor running to the bank right now to potentially fund this. I have no idea why people want to throw money at my tech right now, but you don't see me complaining, that's for damn sure. Depending on what she gives me, I may go with the 1512 instead? I dunno!

The 1512 looks pretty sweet.

Yeah, the 413 isn't expandable beyond its four bays.

Okay, the donor came through already. So I'm pulling the trigger on the 1512 & 3 3TB WD Red HDs. Which with the Synology Hybrid RAID should give me 6TB usable space and 3TB parity. Then when the 4TB Reds come out, I'll add two two of them, which will give me 13TB usable space and 4TB parity, if I'm reading the calculator right. And then down the road I'll be able to add two more units if I need them.

Wow!

Plants vs Zombies is free on the App Store today.

Okay, I need to buy a new phone, stat, because mine is out of internal memory and the battery doesn't last the day anymore. I'm likely getting the Samsung Galaxy SIII, which is what my siblings just got.

Are there any good backup options for an unrooted phone? What should I be concerned about? I have SMS Backup and Restore, which should carry over my messages, but it doesn't seem to include multimedia messages; is there a way to save those? My sister sends me pictures a lot. Can I save/backup my Dolphin settings? What is the best way to save all my Angry Birdses progress?

And then when I get my new phone, I should root it, but I have no idea how to do that and what it really means and I am scared.

If you don't know what rooting means, why do you think you should do it? You should at least catch up on that before you make the call. Instructions aren't hard to find, though. If your phone's rootable, that's not an issue.

I reset my phone to factory and then re-installed from my Google cloud backup, and I got what I needed--if you want to save pictures, then save them and copy them to the new phone.

P-C just wants to root it because all his friends are doing it.

Maybe.