external disk enclosures meet high-volume writes

Posted on June 9, 2015 by j mozdzen

Have you wondered about the differences between all those external USB-to-SATA enclosures, that pile up in your drawer/side board/whereever? Of course there are the typical differences in size, color, robustness and USB2 vs. USB3 – but we recently stumbled across an unexpected difference: Mass data reliability. Continue reading →

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Firefox passwords: Now you see ’em, now you don’t

Posted on June 8, 2015 by j mozdzen

For some weeks, I’ve been suffering from an obscure problem with my Firefox password store: All stored passwords were available when listed via “settings” / “security” / “stored passwords”, and Firefox would enter user names in the appropriate web site forms. But stored passwords were never entered, the password fields always remain blank. Continue reading →

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Creating a Linux-based SAN-/NAS-Server

Posted on May 26, 2015 by j mozdzen

When our former SAN server crashed in 2014, we set up a new SAN/NAS environment based on servers that were available to us at that time. While the servers were definitely suitable, they have their limits and we decided to move on to “real” hardware.

This article is intended to describe our goals, our hardware setup and how we configured the various Open Source software bits and pieces, namely OpenSUSE Linux, NFS, Samba, and SCST. Continue reading →

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