Last night the hard drive in my wifes computer started to make that “click, click, click” sound that can only mean one thing – imminent head failure on the drive. Since the hard drive was only an 8GB hard drive it also offered a chance…
FreeNAS for Network Storage
While we were looking for a network storage solution for our organization we found quite a few open-source and proprietary options available. One of the more interesting open-source solutions was FreeNAS. FreeNAS is very well featured, quite well developed and completely free. Below is a…
NAS – Network Attached Storage
I am considering one of these options at the moment. This came about from 3 reasons – my main PC at home crashed – did the lovely blue screen on me and I had to rebuild it and before I could do this – I…
Syncronization software
We have just installed a whole load of new servers at work including file servers. These are intended for people to back up their work -Â but as with the old system people forget to copy it onto the server and then are upset when…