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 01: ZFS love-fest
In our first episode, Allan Jude, Jim Salter, and Joe Ressington discuss Amazon cutting affiliate rates, SMR hard drives, and setting up off-site backups on the cheap.
News
Amazon reportedly planning drastic cuts to affiliate commission rates
Buyer beware—that 2TB-6TB “NAS” drive you’ve been eyeing might be SMR
Seagate says Network Attached Storage and SMR don’t mix
Western Digital admits 2TB-6TB WD Red NAS drives use shingled magnetic recording
Seagate ‘submarines’ SMR into 3 Barracuda drives and a Desktop HDD
Toshiba desktop disk drives have shingles too
Western Digital implies WD Red NAS SMR drive users are responsible for overuse problems
Free Consulting
Joe has ~2TB of data that should be backed up off-site. Jim and Allan discuss the best ways to do that on a low budget.
Send your questions for Jim and Allan to show@ the show website domain: 2.5admins.com
