Archive for January, 02007

Home NAS

Sunday, January 14th, 02007

We are now the proud owners of a Infrant ReadNAS NV+ Network Attached Storage Device (NAS):

It's configured with four 750 GB SATA drives in a RAID 5 setup for 2.25 TB of usable space. I spent much of the weekend transferring all of our digital music, photos, and movies to the device, and have been successful accessing it from Windows, OS X, and Linux.

So far, I'm impressed. Now if there was a way to back it up without too much hassle. It would take around 3,000 CDs, 478 DVDs, 70 dual layer HD-DVDs, or 50 dual-layer Blu-ray disks, to backup the 2.25 TB.

Update Feb 4th 2007: I'm having a lot of issues with this device and am in the process of trying to fix things. See my post at the Infrant forum.

Update: Reflashing the firmware fixed the performance issues.

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Photos from the big snow

Tuesday, January 9th, 02007

Elisa's mother took a number of snow pictures around Veguita, New Mexico (~45 minutes south of Albuquerque). All of the photos are here. A select number are shown below. Click on an image for a larger view:

The photos were taken on December 30th, and the snow is still here - ten days later. This is very unusual for the Albuquerque area.

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Extended Holiday Road Trip

Monday, January 1st, 02007

Elisa and I spent the last 4 days trying to get back to Albuquerque on a route that should have been an easy 1 day trip:

Day one was supposed to be Oklahoma City to Albuquerque, but I40 was closed into New Mexico, so we had to stop in Amarillo, TX.

Day two was spent in an Amarillo hotel room, waiting for I40 to open. While driving around the city in the ice looking for something to do, the driver's side window on my car fell off the tracks, so we had to get some plastic and duct tape and kick it ghetto style for the remainder of the trip, as there was no way to raise the window.

Day three was spent in a run for New Mexico on I40 that only made it ~ 60 miles before we were stopped for more than two hours. By the time we made it back to Amarillo, all the hotels were booked solid, so we ended up going 1 hour south to Plainview, TX for the evening.

Day four should have been a 5 hour drive from Plainview to Albuquerque on I40. We made it, but it took us more than eleven hours in stop and go bumper-to-bumper traffic in a sea of semis.

Good times.

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