Seagate central twonky install#
Seagate central twonky full#

Although capacity was an issue, when looking at upgrading being able to condense our server closet down and save on electricity was paramount.

Seagate central twonky install#

That’s 20 terabytes (10 after RAID) of storage spread out over multiple devices being used for PC backups, webserver backups, all file storage for the network (photos, videos, install files for test benches, steam backsup, ect). In the end I had a Seagate NAS with 4 2tb drives, a QNAP NAS with two 3tb drives, and a small server with two 2tb drives and two 1tb drives.

Seagate central twonky full#

After a little time and an upgraded camera that quickly led to adding another NAS and then later a server packed full of storage as well. Years ago when building our first networked storage drive I never thought I would ever be able to fill it up. On top of all of that I have to have redundancy, it really adds up quickly. Add the pictures that never get used, edited originals, resized images, and all of the other supporting files, presentations, ect. Video and photos take up a crazy amount of space, especially when filming at high resolutions and taking photos in RAW sometimes with a DSLR. System FAN speed controlled by temperatureĪuto power on after shutdown due to power lossģ20 x 210 x 270 (mm)/ 12.59 x8.27 x 10.62 (in) Intel® Atom™ Processor (2.13GHz Dual Core) Today I’m going to tell you about that experience. Late last year I took at look at the hardware we use here in the LanOC office and decided to work on combining as much as I could. On top of all of that when its summer time, you have all of this hardware putting out more and more heat, fighting against your air conditioning, or even worse its already hot and you are making it even hotter. Not only are you wasting space, but you are also using substantially more electricity each month/year to power it all. At some point you look back and realize that as much fun as the toys are, you could really get the same job done with one device when you were using two or three before. For years the enthusiast in me would get excited about adding a new server, more storage capacity, and new toys to play with. Smaller, Cooler, more efficient, those are three things that I have been working on with both our LAN equipment and in my own office for a few years now.