SATA/SAS disk naming in #Linux really is kinda stupid, isn't it?

This mainboard has 2x SATA + 2x SAS (with a to 4x SATA splitter cable attached each).

How does the system choose to name the drives?

/dev/sda is 1 of one of the SAS ports.
/dev/sdb, sdc, sdd, sde are the 4 drives from the OTHER SAS port.
/dev/sdf, sdg, sdh are the remaining three of the first SAS port.

Why?!?

#datahorder #NixOS #SAS #storage

T-40h until my disks are full and until then I need to have found a solution (Need about 10TB of additional usable storage).

Either:
* By then I need to have bought and received multiple ≥5TB disks (it's a LVM-RAID5, so 2-3 additional ≥5TB drives)
* Create a 2nd LVM with 1TB (or 4TB) disks and do silly things with overlays
* find something better.

#homelab #datahorder #LVM

#HELP
This is after freeing up space for our next video project. We need a DAS (direct-attached storage) solution for Alli and me.

Any Tips?

#DAS #DataHorder #Editing #ContentCreation #MediaStorage
#Tech #TechTips

For all americans that are looking for privacy-friendlier smartphones:

We've got a Murena Fairphone 4, and it is very good, had no problems so far.

It can be bought here:

https://murena.com/america/products/smartphones/

If you like, Retoot, there might be a lot of people that would want to share as little data as possible at the moment.

Sascha

#Privacy #America #Trump #Musk #Twitter #X #Facebook #Meta #Instagram #Threads #Google #Datahorder

Does anyone know of something like WinDirStat (ie something to visualise where disk space is being used) but aimed at more server use?

For example, perhaps produce a web page or something? #devops #zfs #truenas #homelab #datahorder

So, I found this video randomly on YouTube and it sparked my inner anti-social paramilitary paranoid...

Extra internet points if anyone gets the actual reference.

https://youtu.be/qxyYB8RBbJs?si=my2loiPExE5LZkI4

#DisasterPreparedness
#DecentralizedInformation
#DataHorder
#survival

Found another very interesting read about retrotech (the floppy disk in particular).

The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

https://spectrum.ieee.org/3m-floppy

#3m #floppy #Floppy_Disk #retro #Retrocomputing #datahorder