Synology RS-411 Unpackaging The Synology RS-411 is the RAID machine that my buddy Dave G. told me I would be best served with so I went ahead and picked it up. This little puppy only sits on my local network (so it can't be hacked), but I use it for backing up all of my data on a daily basis. It's a 12TB array running RAID 5, so it should be pretty stable.

Building my Array Some pictures that I shot of the Synology RS-411 that I purchased. I had to setup a secondary network at home to get the system working, and worst of all, the system failed after getting it all setup. After discussing the situation extensively with Synology, it turns out I have a defective model.

15 Terabytes New Servers Up and Running photo 25111 651 0 right Installing one of my new 3TB drives into the Synology RS 411 photo I ve been waiting years for this little treat but the new kevinludlow com installation finally has a huge disk array available for consumption In all there is about 15 terabytes of usable space For the time being I ve only dedicated a few TB specifically to this site but it s very easy to scale it now Of course I do still have a business to run so that does take some priority In addition to the new disk space has come all sorts of redundancy which quite frankly is much more important to me Not that a disk failure wouldn t still be a huge pain in the ass but at least I am no longer worried about data loss There would have to be a pretty cataclysmic failure at this point to lose anything Many thanks to Dave G for all of his help in picking out equipment and helping to get things setup Hopefully his Amazon coffers are a bit better padded now Over the coming weeks I ll be working on solidifying the new site layout and getting everything online that I want to It will be several more months before I have all of my new content fully displayed but I ll get there Hopefully I can start keeping things updated at a much more rapid pace from here on out I ll post some pictures of the new setup just as soon as I have some time