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Places we like to go as a family around Bay Area
I wanted to compile the list of places we as a family like to go around the Bay Area and also use this opportunity to gather recommendations from you. We are a family of 4 with 2 kids. I’ll update the list as we discover new places. Hidden Villa (link) Why we like it: Great for…
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Lenovo Horizon and Windows 10 Notes
I had the Lenovo Horizon v1 27″ PC since it came out.. It was the last PC to get the Windows 10 upgrade, unfortunately the experience wasn’t smooth. This post is about the progression of my upgrade process and some tips that might help you along the way. Initial State Back when Windows 10 was…
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Synology DSM 5.1 and Volume Migrations
For the past week or so, I have been experimenting with 2 Synology units, DS1812+ and DS1815+. I had about 5.5TB of shares and LUNs to move around. I have made some observations and wanted to share those with you. At first, I thought that SHR with 1 disk redundancy would fit my needs. So…
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Attaching Synology DSM 5.1 to an existing Azure Backup store
On this post I’m going to share my experiences with attaching to an existing backup store on Azure, from a different Synology NAS. Simulated scenario is, I have backed up things to Azure, my NAS died completely (or stolen), I got a new one and restoring files from Azure back on to my new NAS.…
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Synology DS1515+ / DS1815+ Series: Part 2 – NAS Replacement and Data Migration Test
As part of the Synology review series, I wanted to cover the NAS unit replacement scenario. This is part 2 of Synology Review series: Part 1 – Initial Setup and Basics (click here to read) Background Initial setup and basics. Unboxing RAID10 and SHR2 experiments with varying disk sizes Speed of change operations Simulated outages.…
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Convert to electric or not?
So now that our solar panels are operational, and that we seem to have quite a bit of excess energy production, I’m considering electric baseboard heaters. Qmark makes one with oil much like those mobile heaters. I’m still doing feasibility analysis, qmark’s models range between 200 and 300 per unit but I’m more concerned electric…