Most computer new computer hardware that will fail quickly, will fail within the first month of usage, if not sooner.

Given that, it's recommended to do a burn-in test for any new computer hardware, including hard drives.

I've been using a disk burn-in test to stress test hard drives as I've been replacing them in my …

I was having some lockup issues with my NAS, and wanted to run Memtest86+.

Thankfully, I have Supermicro motherboard that has IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface), which is an out of band way of remotely administering a server.

Supermicro provides a way of mounting a remote image/ISO via a Samba share, so …

Sooner or later, every system will have a drive failure.

ZFS was designed with this in mind.

I noticed in my /var/log/kern.log file error messages about one of the drives in my ZFS pool.

Dec  8 07:11:17 nas kernel: [738110.398391] ata8.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x80000004 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
Dec  8 07:11:17 nas …

These instructions/screenshots were from an UDM Pro running:

UniFi OS UDM Pro 1.11.0 UniFi Network Application 7.0.23

Why

From the FBI field office in Portland:

Your fridge and your laptop should not be on the same network.¹

If those cheap "smart" lightbulbs you bought off Amazon get compromised because of …

I was doing some testing of using a Samba share for OSX's Time Machine backup, and needed to verify that it would actually work.

My initial test simply made sure that the Samba share showed up as an option in the Time Machine preferences, but I needed to run a Time Machine backup.

However, the Ubuntu VM I've been using …

After setting up my KVM system, I quickly realized that the 1Tb hard drive I was using for KVM-related files wasn't going to cut it, so I bought a 4Tb drive to go along with it.

Inserted the new drive, and booted up the system.

Prechecks

• Before changing anything, dump the current config of the LVM VG, named kvm-vg …