Introduction Now lets finally set up the whole point of buying a NAS. Storage! A Synology NAS is just a box that has a bunch of hard drives in it. The role of NAS devices has grown over the years. Besides just holding files these NAS devices are doing more light weight server roles like,…
Introduction We’re at the Synology NAS basic configuration part of the process. In this step we’ll be setting up the administrator account, Assigning a static IP Address to the NAS and then add a little extra to Synology NAS. We’ll be configuring LACP Link aggregation on the Synology NAS and the our managed switch to…
Introduction A Synology NAS is useless without Memory and Storage. In Part 2 of this series we’re going over the process of installing both Memory and Storage Hard drives in a Synology NAS. Then we’re going to discus why there are some memory limits on Synology NAS devices. At the end we’ll wrap everything up…
Introduction Over the last year I’ve been working on a lot of new projects at work. Because of that it’s required me to work a lot extra hours. In my off hours my wife and I have been focusing on landscaping or just not IT related things. During that same time I had to 2…
Back around the 4th of July Best Buy had a sale on 8TB Western Digital EasyStore external hard drives. So I thought about it and decided it was time to shrink the burstcoin rig and just make it simpler. Around the beginning on the year I had got a Lenovo Thinkcentre M93p (AKA Lenovo Tiny)…
Back in December of 2017 I found Burstcoin by hopping through random YouTube mining videos. I was curious on the current state of mining because of the hype around Bitcoin hitting $20,000 and the popular of Ethereum and others. I use to mine bitcoin back in the day when it was less then a dollar…
Introduction About a year and half ago, I needed a distraction from some of chaos in my personal life and decided to build a FreeNAS NAS storage server to act as an iSCSI target. I started detailing out the build in a couple of posts but then life got in the way and I never…
After evaluating hardware mining and the costs involved I decided to transfer the 1.25 out of the full node and shut it down. Granted I would love to build a new mining machine and start mining a bunch of coins but, personally this spring i want to put a deck on my house more. So…
As a professional it the IT industry it’s impossible not hear about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. Personally I started back when Bitcoin was worth less then a dollar by mining with video cards and USB miners. I cashed out when Bitcoin hit $150 a piece thinking that it could go above that…. Well I was wrong….
If you’re like me you spin up a vm when ever you want to test some thing or when you hear about about a new software that seems interesting. Lately, I’ve been spinning up a lot of Ubuntu virtual machines for single purposes and now that there are a few I started looking into how…