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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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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