Today I'll show you how to build a rock-solid home/office NAS server using a Mini-ITX motherboard, a dedicated hardware RAID card, and enterprise class SAS hard drives, all in a Mini-ITX NAS case with an 8 drive hot-swap bay. Total budget is between USD$850 to USD$2,000 depending on the hardware you choose (I'll give links to all the gear you'll need). Introduction & Notes Having your own home or office NAS server is a great way to back up … [Read more...] about Build a Mini-ITX NAS RAID Server with Enterprise SAS Hard Drives
Hardware
Perform disk error check (chkdsk) on Windows 10
Today, I'll show you how to run Windows Check Disk (chkdsk) to find and fix filesystem and drive sector errors. Sometimes Windows may alert you to errors on your hard drive, or your computer may be just running slow and crashing, so I'll show you what to do in this situation. If you've lost access to your desktop and can't get past the blue boot screen, so I'll also show you how to run Check Disk (chkdsk) from the Advanced Boot Menu. Run a basic … [Read more...] about Perform disk error check (chkdsk) on Windows 10
Build a Raspberry Pi RAID NAS Server – [UPDATED 2020]
2020-05-26: This guide is now updated to reflect some bug fixes and changes in mdadm and Samba. Introduction Today I'll show you how to build a Raspberry Pi 3/4 RAID NAS server using USB flash drives and the Linux native RAID application mdadm, along with SAMBA so the drive will show up as a normal network folder on Windows PC's. It's an intermediate tutorial (not for noobs) and shows you how to create a Linux RAID array which is a good skill … [Read more...] about Build a Raspberry Pi RAID NAS Server – [UPDATED 2020]