Walking in a technology wonderland

Argon 1 case Recently I setup my own NAS server using a Raspberry Pi 4. So far it has been working nicely, however one thing that has been annoying me is the case. When I chose the pi 4 (USB 3.0, better performance, etc) I was worried that it would suffer heat issues, since it ran a lot hotter than the Pi 3. Therefore i decided to buy a case which could include a fan. However at the time, Pi4 cases were not common, and the case I chose, although cheap, was not ideal. The case had a fan which could be included in the case and ran continually. Unfortunately only after a few month the fan now creates an annoying rattle, which the more i hear it, the more it becomes annoying, to the point I have had to disconnect the fan. Although it has turned out the Pi4 in this application runs less hot than I was expecting, I still wanted some head room, in case I added extra functions which increased performance requirements. Therefore I decided to look for another case. This is where I c...

One of the banes of modern technology is how to keep your digital information safe.  While modern PC's are quite reliable, often you are only one hardware failure away from losing irreplaceable documents, photos and videos. Therefore it is critical that you have some sort of backup solution. The solution  will often depend on the size of the files. Documents can often be backed up to the cloud using things like box or google drive, but cloud storage has its own issues and I would nor rely on it. While for small amounts of data it can be cheap and convenient, even with super-fast broadband backing up even moderately large files can be tedious and soon you will find yourself paying yearly subscription fees as your storage requirements increase. The alternative then is some sort of local backup. I take a lot of photographs, and recently I have been continually hitting the limits of my disk space, which has forced me to continually prune images. It seemed like a good time ...