Tag: hard disk

  • Lessons Learned from a new Synology NAS

    Lessons Learned from a new Synology NAS

    I rencently proceeded to solve a problem I was observing more and more from my sturdy Synology DS413j (7-year old after all): I ran out of space and the old DS413j has no longer any extension possibility after the four 4TB disks in SHR mode (10.41TB accessible). So, I just bought a shining new (and…

  • A really big disk drive

    A really big disk drive

    The IBM 350 disk storage unit, with a capacity of 5 MB, was really small. But you needed a forklift to move it around.

  • A very geeky blonde

    A very geeky blonde

    Even blondes can be real geeks!

  • Read/write Linux partitions from Windows

    Read/write Linux partitions from Windows

    When you have a computer with multiple partitions on the same disk or several disks with different partitions, things start getting bad if one of them is a Linux Ext or Ext2 partition: Usually, you can’t access the Linux partition from your Windows computer, Microsoft totally ignore your disk/partition. In order to correct this, you…