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  • Storage Spaces is a great technology natively presented in Windows. With Storage Spaces you can create volumes with different resiliency settings, including parity (N+1 and N+2). This configuration is very efficient when storing large amounts of data. Many users are…

  • In this article we will select a software for a self-built NAS. For inexperienced users I strongly suggest to buy a ready solution like Synology. They are easier to use and have a commercial support. For anyone interested how to…

  • At some point I decided to build a NAS with a maximum capacity at minimum cost. After some research I found Seagate 16 TB HDDs that had the least price per TB. So I bought: All the purchased disks have…

    Benchmarking high-capacity NAS drives

  • Today I will show you how to mount SMB share on Debian 12 and make it persistent. First of all, cifs-utils should be installed: Next we need to create a mount point on Linux server. I will create “video” folder…

  • If you want to receive a notification about new ssh login to your Linux server, this article is for you. Introduction Implementing a simple notification script for SSH logins on a Linux server is a crucial step for enhancing security,…

    Receive SSH login notifications in Telegram

  • At the beginning we have a Debian 12 server running MariaDB version 10.11, which can be verified with following command: Step 1 : Connect repository Correct repository settings can be obitained on the official website: https://mariadb.org/download/ Import repository signing key:…

  • The concept This topology may be unneeded and complicated in most of cases, however is it inspired by real life, so I will share it. Let’s say you are sitting in one point of universe and have a WAN connection…

    Schrodinger’s WAN

  • For some reason you may need to route all the thaffic from your LAN through a tunnel to third-patry gateway. The tunnel encryption takes place on your router, which means it only applies to the traffic between your router and…

    How to set up Mikrotik OpenVPN client