Clete's Blog

Note: See my latest post on ZFS here. About a week ago, I ordered parts from Newegg to build a NAS that would use a RAID-5/RAID-Z configuration with ZFS and 4TB of usable storage. I ordered the following: ASROCK AMD E350M1-USB3 Motherboard/APU 4GB DDR 1333 RAM 2x2TB HDD (I had 1x2TB already and 1x120GB) Case, [...]

A year or so ago, I decided to write hack together some scripts to create an Arduino temperature logging device that would upload results to Pachube. Achieving this is much easier than it sounds. All you need is an Arduino, an Ethernet Shield, and a temperature sensor or two. Combine it all together with a little [...]