Ep. 171 "BellingHOME your Data" #tech

For the week of November 15, 2020


Housekeeping

* Chris’ interview with the Whatcom Dads Podcast (https://overcast.fm/+lZQ1OUAdk)

Bringing your data home BellingHOME your data

* Drives driving you mad?
* Data bartering; and the price our data is actually worth


*NAS vs DAS*

* Speed and spec
* Even at $1000 real money on drives and a NAS; things are only as fast as your internal/external internal connection and the drives themselves.
* How much data do you have and how long IT WILL take to get it on, indexed, and secured on a NAS
* This geek took the better part of 2 weeks to migrate just short of 5TB of data
* RAID and what that means for a NON geek.
* Brands
* Synology
* QNAP
* Drobo
* WD MyCloud
* Beyond storage
* VPN /Email/ Contacts /Calendar
* Video/Photo localized hosting
* Plex
* Website host
* Dropbox replacement
* Google Docs replacement



*Bham Bingo*
Slight edit- while we were recording Wa Gov. Inslee announced sweeping changes to our state to help reduce rising covid cases. So as things are changing we are skipping a recommendation of a local place for food this episode...

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/gov-inslee-orders-sweeping-restrictions-on-indoor-gatherings-restaurants-bars-gyms-as-covid-19-cases-surge-in-washington-state/


Quality Assurance

*Chris - After seeing the new shiny iPhone products released this fall, Minimalism documentary director and Youtube Vlogger Matt D’Avella is switching to a flip phone - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nX5jwa2QTs
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* AJ *

* TrueSpies Podcast; https://spyscape.com/podcast/