2.5 Admins is a podcast featuring two sysadmins called Allan Jude and Jim Salter, and a producer/editor who can just about configure a Samba share called Joe Ressington. Every two weeks we get together, talk about recent tech news, and answer some of your admin-related questions.
2.5 Admins 08: Energy assisted drive recovery
New types of hard disks, recovering data from dying drives, AMD makes Jim reach for the calculator, and what to do with obscure software that you need.
Plugs
FreeBSD Fridays: A Series of 101 Classes
News
Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives
Tales From The Sysadmin: Impending Hard Drive Doom
AMD Ryzen 4000 desktop CPUs will be here in Q3 2020
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