The Placebo Effect: Why I Didn't Buy NVMe Cache for my NAS
I was ready to spend $200 to 'speed up' my Synology. Then I ran iperf3 and learned the difference between Random I/O and Sequential Throughput.
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The RAID Crisis: Recovering 22.8TB from a Dead Array
That sinking feeling when a drive fails. Then a second one. How I recovered 22TB of data from a crashed Synology array using UFS Explorer, patience, and the kind of panic that teaches you things.
Distributed Storage: Unraid and Synology Across Two Sites
My storage isn't in one place. Unraid at dad's house, Synology for backups, Tailscale connecting it all. Here's how I manage 40TB across 40 miles.