Network Attached Storage Archives

Getting Your Feet Wet with TrueNAS — by PDXKurt

September 19, 2023
by podfeet

Hi, this is PDXKurt, bringing you an introduction to the open source operating system for network-attached storage systems called TrueNAS, maintained by the company iXSystems. TrueNAS manages disks, runs network applications, and offers volumes over the network to client computers. It is thus similar in function to the operating system that runs on products that […]

The Day the Drobo Died … Again

A Walk Down Memory Lane Over the years I’ve regaled you with tales of our various network-attached storage (NAS) devices. Steve and I use our NAS for storing sensitive financial data that we don’t want to be stored in the cloud, along with hosting our PLEX video library Steve has ripped from our DVD/Blu-Ray collection […]

How Did I Break Keychain Access for My Local Server?

Undesirable Connect Prompt Back in March, I told you the story of how I wrote a Shortcut with a shell script to mount a share on my Synology network attached storage (NAS). I said that I had made fire because I was so proud of myself. I taught myself to write shell scripts and taught […]

Security Bits — 27 June 2021

Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 Two years ago First American Financial made the news for leaking sensitive financial data on more than 800 million documents for people who bought or sold a house in the preceding 16 years. […]

Making Progress Learning the Basics of Synology

As I mentioned a while ago, my aged Drobo 5N died after many years of good service. The 5N, for the last few years, had the role of backup NAS to the newer Drobo 5N2. When the 5N died, I did what I’ve been itching to do for quite some time – I bought a […]

NC #789 Loopback, Twelve South Curve, The Levelator is Back, Drobo Died & Synology Joined the Family

June 21, 2020
by podfeet

Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, June 21, 2020, and this is show number 789. Well things are looking pretty good for the show next week for Steve and my little holiday where we’re […]

The Day the Drobo Died … and Synology Joined the Family

Dead Drobo from Dashboard Have you noticed in the last few years, new gadgets and even software don’t seem all that different? I went from an iPhone X to an XS and couldn’t tell the difference after about a day. I went from the Apple Watch Series 4 to Series 5 and only noticed my […]

What I Learned Doing Speed Tests of the Drobo 5N2 vs. 5N

This article started out as a simple review of the Drobo 5N2 network attached storage (aka NAS). But as you might have noticed by now, these things take on a life of their own. I’m going to start with a bit of a walk down memory lane to explain how I got into using Drobos […]

CES 2017: Synology Network Attached Data Storage

Allison interviews Brad Kaminski from Synology about their new Disk Station network attached storage systems. Synology offers a various Disk Station hardware solutions with increasing levels of storage. Synology’s Disk Storage Manager controls the hardware, is browser based and runs on any operating system. Synology’s software is not proprietary and supports disks of all sizes […]