Tag: debian
After experimenting at home, the very first professional-grade NAS from Terramaster arrived at work, too, with 12 HDD bays and possibly a pair of M2s. NVME cards. In this case, I again installed a plain Debian distribution, but HDD monitoring required some configuration adjustments to run smartd properly. A decent approach to data safety is to run regularly scheduled short and long SMART tests on…
A few days before today, 21 years ago, I sent this message to the debian-devel-announce mailing list to solicit helpers in packaging and to oversee the geospatial software stack included in the main Debian archive. After so many years, still there. At that time, the Debian project had already been around for more than 10 years and even had a few releases behind, but the typical maintenance of…
I recently bought a basic NAS for home use. The NAS is a nice Terramaster F2-425 , which is a very basic RAID1-only NAS with a decent CPU and 2.5Gb network. Terramaster allows users to either use its custom Linux-based TOS or install any other operating system supported by the x86_64-based platform. Note that this model does not mount any NVME unit for the OS, as for the F2-424. Common choices…