Lets get the party started#

What better way to celebrate the New Year than a major update of the server OS on your home server?

The replacement Synology arrived. I swapped the drives over, and while I was at it, threw in 4 GB of RAM that had been sitting in a drawer anyway — now it’s at 8. Plex came up quickly, I restored the config too, fine-tuning will happen as I go.

Not even a year and a half had passed since I became a happy owner of a home server from Synology, and it already went belly up.

I thought it over and decided not to wait for Black Friday, nor for the storage to run out ahead of schedule. In the spirit of increasing diversity inside my NAS, a green Seagate joined the two existing red WD drives.

I’m obviously not going to connect just one NAS to the UPS — that would be both unfair and unwise.

Got out of the habit of tower computers with big fans… Only half a year has passed since that memorable Black Friday when a Synology moved in with me — and this is what its (her?) insides look like today.

Today, among the digital residents of our home, yet another (in a long line of) little box has appeared. Actually, thanks to Black Friday (which deserves its own separate post) — several of them showed up, one after another, but this one is by far the most promising and offers the most to play around with.