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    What’s the meaning of shucking a hard drive?

    If you’re new to data hoarding and have been reading about it on blogs, forums,

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  • CD Ripping

    What does the term “rip cd” really mean?

    If you’ve ever wondered what it means to “rip a CD” then you’re not alone.

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    Is JDownloader Safe?

    If you’ve ever tried to download or install JDownloader (aka JDownloader2), you may have been

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Pi-Hole on LXC on Proxmox

Installing Pi-Hole inside a Proxmox LXC Container

January 9, 2021 Leave a comment

I recently moved my hoard of data from various NAS devices to a consolidated VM running TrueNAS. After some research, I decided to use Proxmox

UK Info Disk v1.0

UK Info Disk – A nostalgic adventure

August 29, 2020 One comment

10 fun things you can use a home server for

August 7, 2020 Leave a comment

Top 5 best places to find cheap used servers for home use

August 1, 2020 Leave a comment
Pi-Hole on LXC on Proxmox

Installing Pi-Hole inside a Proxmox LXC Container

January 9, 2021 Leave a comment

I recently moved my hoard of data from various NAS devices to a consolidated VM running TrueNAS. After some research, I decided to use Proxmox

UK Info Disk v1.0

UK Info Disk – A nostalgic adventure

August 29, 2020 One comment
Bleaching a hard drive

How to destroy a hard drive with bleach

March 17, 2020 Leave a comment
CD Ripping

What does the term “rip cd” really mean?

December 13, 2019 Leave a comment

If you’ve ever wondered what it means to “rip a CD” then you’re not alone. This question is asked at least once a month on

Pi-Hole on LXC on Proxmox

Installing Pi-Hole inside a Proxmox LXC Container

January 9, 2021 Leave a comment

I recently moved my hoard of data from various NAS devices to a consolidated VM running TrueNAS. After some research, I decided to use Proxmox

UK Info Disk v1.0

UK Info Disk – A nostalgic adventure

August 29, 2020 One comment

As a digital datahoarder, I tend not to throw away any old software whether it be on CD, DVD, or anything else. Last week I

10 fun things you can use a home server for

August 7, 2020 Leave a comment

If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you’ll be aware that I am a huge fan of running a home server. In fact,

Top 5 best places to find cheap used servers for home use

August 1, 2020 Leave a comment

If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you’ll know that I believe most datahoarders should buy a server. What I find is that

Top 10 best looking servers / server racks

July 22, 2020 Leave a comment

Most of us datahoarders get started by upgrading the capacity of our hard drive or SSD in our desktop or laptop. Then we realise that

Table showing OSI layers

Which OSI layer does iSCSI operate at?

June 17, 2020 Leave a comment

In my last post about SSD storage, I introduced you to my friend Dave. Dave is getting into data hoarding with aggression and he keeps

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