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Submitted by 93 Escort Wagon on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @01:37AM

93 Escort Wagon writes: I've been somewhat okay about backing up our home data. We've got a couple separate disks available for as local backup storage, and my own data also gets occasionally copied to encrypted storage at BackBlaze. My daughter has her own "cloud" backups, which seem to be a manual push every once in a while of random files / folders she thinks are important. Including our media library, between my stuff, my daughter's, and my wife's... we're probably talking in the neighborhood of 10 TB for everything at present.

The whole setup is obviously cobbled together, and the process is very manual. Plus it's annoying since I'm handling Mac, Linux, and Windows backups completely differently (and sub-optimally). Also, unsurprisingly, the amount of data we possess does seem to be increasing with time.

I've been considering biting the bullet and buying a NAS, and redesigning the entire process (both local and remote). I'm familiar with Synology and DSM from work, and the DS1522+ looks appealing. I've also come across a lot of recommendations for QNAP's devices, though. I'm comfortable tackling this on my own, but I'd like to throw this out to the Slashdot community — what NAS do you like for home use (and what disks did you put in it)? What have your experiences been?

Thanks!

Comment Windows Media Center with Ceton card (Score 0) 479

by uadog on Tuesday June 26, 2012 @10:06PM (#40461959) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Watch TV In 2012?

Place a Ceton card into your Windows 7 Ultimate PC with Windows Media Center and simultaneously record 4 TV streams at once to media of your choice (local drive, NAS, shares on your network). Once recorded to a shared drive on your network, you can view the content on any PC in the house. Or, you can assign one of the turners to any PC, allowing that PC to record/view live content. Why do this? -You own the DVR (your HTPC) without paying rental fees. Most low end PCs with a 30$ GPU will do fine. -You determine the recorded TV storage capacity without paying your cable company -Cable companies usually charge $5/month for the cable card rental (a credit card size card that slips into the Ceton Card). Cheap. -Once you have the card installed, you can push the live feed to any PC in your house, as well any recorded content is multiroom viewing. -Windows Media Center is wife approved, and I went from Tivo. Example- I was paying $80/month to a satellite company for 3 non-HDTV DVRs, limited recording space (40 hours per). I switched cable companies, now pay $35/month and have 4 HTPC HDTV DVRs (plus view recorded content from my in-home mobile devices).

Shuttleworth Suggests 1-Way Valve For User Experience Testing 757

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 24, 2009 @04:17PM from the why-isn't-this-intuitive? dept.

darthcamaro writes "No surprise but Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth has come out swinging in favor of the Linux desktop. Speaking at Linuxcon yesterday he detailed the things that he thinks Linux requires in order to win the desktop wars. Those include: co-ordinated software releases, better quality and design, some user experience testing and oh yeah, a dose of 'shut the f*** up' too. During his keynote, he extended an invitation to any open source application to submit their software for testing by user-experience experts. The sessions would be recorded for posterity, and the developer would not be able to interact with the user. "'If the developer is in the room, they have to say nothing. It's the shut the f*** up protocol,' Shuttleworth said. 'You sit and watch someone struggle with the software that you've so lovingly produced.'"

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