I was reading on a forum recently about a guy that was boasting he had a private database containing pager messages dating back decades. A lot of people were asking him about his setup and why he bothered getting into this. Unfortunately, he was being quite secretive and not giving much away. I hoard lots of data but hoarding pager
» Read moreIntroduction Hi, fellow datahoarders. I’ve recently decided that I’m going to cancel my Spotify subscription and move to a self-hosted music streaming solution. This isn’t going to happen overnight, I love my music so I need to prove my self-hosted solution is 100% capable before I cancel my Spotify subscription. To be completely honest, I may even keep my existing
» Read moreI recently moved my hoard of data from various NAS devices to a consolidated VM running TrueNAS. After some research, I decided to use Proxmox as the host OS. Aside from it being open-source, it has several features I like the look of, including native support for Linux Containers (LXC). I’ve decided that the first LXC that I create is
» Read moreAs a digital datahoarder, I tend not to throw away any old software whether it be on CD, DVD, or anything else. Last week I was moving some old boxes around whilst decorating and I caught glance of a CD-ROM that I’d completely forgotten about in one of them. The CD-ROM looked really old-school, but I immediately recalled the name
» Read moreIf 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, I now have several used servers, all neatly racked up. The first thing most people ask when they see this is either “what do your home servers do?” or “what’s a home server used for?“.
» Read moreIf 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 most new datahoarders start out buying external hard drives. Some of them buy internal drives and load up their desktop PC. In the end however, those who are most serious about datahoarding end up buying
» Read moreMost of us datahoarders get started by upgrading the capacity of our hard drive or SSD in our desktop or laptop. Then we realise that they don’t make hard drives large enough for our hobby/obsession. We might then decide we need multiple hard drives, so we buy a few more. Inevitably, we discover we’ve run out of hard drive bays
» Read moreIn my last post about SSD storage, I introduced you to my friend Dave. Dave is getting into data hoarding with aggression and he keeps asking me questions about storage. He called me last week and asked “what layer is iSCSI?“. I was a little thrown at first but after some probing, I was able to deduce Dave’s real question.
» Read moreToday’s post is a bit unusual and possibly not of much interest to fellow data-hoarders. It comes in response to a question I was recently asked by an aspiring data-hoarder however and I thought it important to address. A few months ago a friend (we’ll call him “Dave”, because, well, that’s his name) was admiring my storage setup and became
» Read moreI recently changed my broadband ISP and decided to switch to BT Fibre. I’ve had fibre from BT in the past (back when it was called BT Infinity) and although their support can be poor, I knew that once the service is up and running, it’s fast and reliable. One perk for me was that my package included BT Cloud
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