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View ArticleFree Up Some Hard Drive (Or SSD) Space For Your Mac By Having Spotify Stores...
Vinh Nguyen’s Spotify Offline Playlist Poppings Did you know that you can configure Spotify to save all offline playlists on a network attached storage volume? In my case, I used FreeNAS to create a...
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I had built an awesome FreeNAS 8.04 box, but little I knew that this was the beginning of all the problems, and these problems had bugged me for two days straight. Noticing how I had not updated my...
View ArticleGigabit LAN Empowers Productivity Such As Running Virtual Machines On A...
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View ArticleHow To Enable Time Machine On FreeNAS (Video)
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View ArticleFirst Time Experience With QNAP TS-419P II
QNAP TS-419P II Admin Console A week ago, my FreeNAS box went crazy after a thunderstorm. I knew there was a problem with my FreeNAS box’s motherboard from very early on, but I didn’t care until the...
View ArticleHow Much Are You Willing To Spend On Securing Your Data?
Network Attached Storage (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The actual cost of making sure your data is safe (i.e., redundancy) and secure can be quite ambiguous. The ambiguousness is probably derived from the...
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