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 06: BFYTW
Jim bought the worst laptop in the world, a quick update on SMR drives, learning the basics of ZFS, and updating air-gapped servers.
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News
We bought Walmart’s $140 laptop so you wouldn’t have to
Lawsuit vs. Western Digital wants to end any use of SMR in NAS drives
Western Digital adds “Red Plus” branding for non-SMR hard drives
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We were asked about the best ways to start with ZFS, and Shlomi asked about updating air-gapped Ubuntu machines with various VMs.
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