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Back from Camping

Details: By Matt; 01 September 2009; Hits: 2977

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My co-workers and I went camping at Arrowhead provincial park this month (it's become an annual tradition) and a great time was had by all.

The weather wasn't too bad, the food was amazing and I was finally able to get out and try fishing for the first time.

Storage (my NAS) receives an upgrade

Details: By Matt; 24 June 2009; Hits: 2702

It didn't take long before my storage server (my NAS) filled up. The initial build had 8x500 GB hard drives installed, it gave me approx. 3.5 TB of usable space. When I consolidated my 2 previous file servers into this one, I had about 500 GB +/- a few GB of free space left over. I thought that amount of space would have lasted me a little while, but leave it to me and my brothers to continue downloading content. So it didn't take log to fill that up. I've decided to stick with the current hardware and go out and buy 8x1.5 TB to push for a new upgrade path. First I had to migrate all of my data to a different server, thankfully I haver another box, where I could put 4x1TB HDD's into RAID0 for a period just long enough to copy my data off, put the new 8x1.5 TB drives into my current storage NAS and then migrate the data back. With this upgrade, I'm sitting around 9.55 TB of usable space.....let's see how long that will last before I fill it up.

Changes at work

Details: By Matt; 06 June 2009; Hits: 2602

Well this week I was hit by a bombshell, two of my co-workers will be quitting shortly.

Ling Cheung and Marek Kupsta will be quitting Q9 for new careers, I like to wish them all the best in their future endeavors and hopefully they'll still come out for the occasional wing night.