Koofr is a pretty good deal: it’s 1TB of storage for a lifetime through Stack Social, for around $170. If you get a discount from Stack Social (like when I wrote this, during their Black Friday special), you can get that 1TB lifetime for $102—the prevailing discount of 40% for software during Black Friday/Cyber Monday.* […]
Given the urgency for research on the novel COVID-19 virus, I have been running Rosetta@Home and Folding@Home on my Windows machine. BOINC (which powers Rosetta@Home) runs reasonably well on FreeBSD with some special instructions. I also wanted to run Folding@Home. I currently have a Linux VM in bhyve to do so. But, that is rather […]
So, we’ve been hitting the 1TB bandwidth limit in our household. The majority of our use is video streaming. However, while keeping tabs on our usage, I did identify some room for improvement in the use of OneDrive for file synchronization. They way things work right now is that I upload all my photos (mostly […]
I’ve been using Plex for quite a while. You have to jump through some hoops (it only supports MKV files, not DVD or Blu-Ray directory structures), but it does in the end work quite well with my Fire TV stick and with the Google Nexus Player (Android TV). I recently got a PlexPass subscription. This […]
I recently bought an IP camera. (To be honest, I went on a bit of a shopping spree for IP cameras.) These cameras support FTP as a storage mechanism for video and snapshots (motion-detecting for example). As a result, I wanted to set up an FTP user on my FreeBSD machine. Iniitally, I tried creating […]
I got my hands on an m550 128GB drive (for around $75 with the recent pre-Thanksgiving/pre-Christmas discounts). Here are some comparisons between my old ZIL (the m500 128GB) and the new one: ZIL Throughput (sustained) MB/s none 195.6 m500 128GB 124.0 m550 128GB 265.9 Here are some snippets of zpool isotat output: No ZIL
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2014-11-25 22:07:33,635 - 16777216000 bytes written in 85.77223777770996 seconds 195.60193874713124 MB/s |
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Fresh out of the box:
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----------------------------------------------------------------------- CrystalDiskMark 3.0.2 x64 (C) 2007-2013 hiyohiyo Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- * MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s] Sequential Read : 501.551 MB/s Sequential Write : 372.055 MB/s Random Read 512KB : 460.606 MB/s Random Write 512KB : 371.946 MB/s Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 31.815 MB/s [ 7767.2 IOPS] Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 76.588 MB/s [ 18698.2 IOPS] Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 370.200 MB/s [ 90380.9 IOPS] Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 264.007 MB/s [ 64454.8 IOPS] Test : 1000 MB [E: 0.1% (0.1/119.1 GB)] (x5) Date : 2014/11/23 10:47:23 OS : Windows 7 Ultimate Edition SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x64) |
Curiously, there are no firmware updates for this drive (nor the m500). Guess Crucial got it right the first time. Be the first to like. Like Unlike
So, you remember that pfSense build that I talked about before? Well, it was drawing around 25 W. I know, right? Unacceptable! So, one of the things I tried to figure out is what the main power draw is. The PicoPSU accepts a 12V input. Could the ac/dc adapter be hurting my efficiency? The adapter […]
Remember back when I was considering a pfSense build? Well, it turns out it was a lot easier than I though. I realized I could buy (for about $7) an Intel dual-PCI Ethernet card (HP NC7170), and the $6 riser card would allow me to fit it into my case. (I had to do a […]
I followed the directions here: Pogoplug Series 4 | Arch Linux ARM. It took only about 15 minutes, and the iperf scores are outstanding:
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[root@alarm ~]# iperf -c server ------------------------------------------------------------ Client connecting to server, TCP port 5001 TCP window size: 43.8 KByte (default) ------------------------------------------------------------ [ 3] local 192.168.1.241 port 50914 connected with 192.168.1.8 port 5001 [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth [ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 382 MBytes 321 Mbits/sec |
The install was on an 2.5″ SSD disk I had laying around, which explains the fast install. But that’s the point–the pogoplug 4 has a SATA port, so I can […]
