{"id":13,"date":"2019-08-16T16:07:44","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T16:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ranyhyn.net\/blog\/?p=13"},"modified":"2019-08-16T16:07:44","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T16:07:44","slug":"network-attached-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ranyhyn.net\/blog\/2019\/08\/16\/network-attached-storage\/","title":{"rendered":"Network Attached Storage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Death and taxes<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">It&#8217;s said that the only two certain things in life are death and taxes. If the panama papers taught us anything, it&#8217;s that taxes aren&#8217;t actually a certainty for everyone. That leaves death. Recently my beloved 3TB external hard-drive had an appointment with the grim reaper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"316\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ranyhyn.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/20190816_174052-2-1024x316.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ranyhyn.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/20190816_174052-2-1024x316.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ranyhyn.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/20190816_174052-2-300x93.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ranyhyn.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/20190816_174052-2-768x237.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>S-ATA \/ USB interface for the external drive.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Resurrection?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>I have at least passing familiarity with certain recovery tools, such as testdisk but alas, it was to no avail. The partition table was destroyed and I couldn&#8217;t rebuild it, change it, reformat the drive, or anything. Resurrection is likely still possible, but beyond my current abilities.  Fortunately I had recent backups of most of my stuff, so I lost very little of any appreciable value. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"710\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ranyhyn.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/20190816_174114-2-1024x710.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ranyhyn.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/20190816_174114-2-1024x710.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ranyhyn.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/20190816_174114-2-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ranyhyn.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/20190816_174114-2-768x533.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>The deceased drive in question<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The march of progress<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>I could succumb to grief over my dearly departed drive, but I chose to find a suitable replacement. I decided upon procuring a NAS. This would allow me to access my stuff from multiple devices, without being directly connected to the device via cable. It also allows for some interesting projects down the road. A sort of small scale homelab kind of thing. Having some familiarity with the QNAP brand, I stuck to what I know and bought myself some 4TB Ironwolf drives and set them up in a RAID-5 configuration, so that if a drive fails, it can be replaced and will rebuild itself relatively painlessly. I&#8217;m aware this is no substitute for a proper backup however.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"607\" height=\"166\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ranyhyn.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/bilde-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ranyhyn.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/bilde-2.png 607w, https:\/\/ranyhyn.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/bilde-2-300x82.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 607px) 100vw, 607px\" \/><figcaption>Excerpt from the QNAP dashboard<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Death and taxes It&#8217;s said that the only two certain things in life are death and taxes. If the panama papers taught us anything, it&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ranyhyn.net\/blog\/2019\/08\/16\/network-attached-storage\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Network Attached Storage<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[22,18,19,24,21,16,17,20,23],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-disk","tag-drive","tag-fail","tag-homelab","tag-ironwolf","tag-nas","tag-qnap","tag-recovery","tag-storage","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ranyhyn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ranyhyn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ranyhyn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ranyhyn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ranyhyn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ranyhyn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32,"href":"https:\/\/ranyhyn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ranyhyn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ranyhyn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ranyhyn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}