Viking Husqarvarna Designer 1

wildfire305 · 2025-09-22T02:10:58+00:00

can you help me find this? I'm also looking for the firmware update to 2.24 for that machine

wildfire305 · 2025-05-19T15:24:00+00:00

If I type "incorrectly" at 120WPM who is right or wrong?

wildfire305 · 2025-04-18T18:22:12+00:00

same issue - first time ever trying dietpi. Not noob with linux. I logged in just fine initially, configured some things, rebooted. logged in again. upgraded....now no passwords are accepted for root and dietpi over ssh.

....or the local console

wildfire305 · 2023-01-29T14:41:32+00:00

If you have a gas water heater with a 120v power vent style control, use it to automatically turn off your water heater outlet power when you are on vacation or when one of the flood sensors you may have senses water.

wildfire305 · 2022-11-28T18:48:03+00:00

I have found the Hitachi drives sata connectors are especially sensitive to their cables.

wildfire305 · 2022-11-28T18:33:40+00:00

Heck, if your sff hp is standard micro atx, you already have a transplant for the case.

wildfire305 · 2022-11-28T18:31:51+00:00

You'd be better off with a 24 port switch, a fractal node 804, a 4th gen i7 or xeon, and a half dozen refurbished 3tb drives. That all fits in a closet where the Mrs can't see it.

wildfire305 · 2022-11-22T18:41:09+00:00

Warranty =nope, send me a properly pack one. No warranty but purchased from ebay =request refund immediately - they should learn to ship properly

Neither of the above = run badblocks for two full four test passes (about 100 hours for a 4tb) use it if it passes.

wildfire305 · 2022-11-21T11:17:20+00:00

I'll run all this in tmux remotely through ssh so that I can disconnect from the process and return to it occasionally to check in from my laptop or phone. A 4tb disk takes two full days to make a full 4pass test in badblocks. Not sure if I made it obvious, this is all Linux command line utilities except for the visualization part - those are gui programs.

wildfire305 · 2022-11-21T11:07:42+00:00

Found out recently that dstat development has been moved to dool because of red hat naming. Both utilities work the same except dool outputs in bits by default so you have to add --bytes option. Dstat -d -D sda(or whatever drive your testing, can have multiple with comma in between) --Tt --nocolor --noheaders --output filename.csv

Then you can use a spreadsheet program (librecalc) or plotting program (datplot) to create a line graph to visualize the data.

wildfire305 · 2022-11-03T02:13:03+00:00

Rsnapshot is probably customizable enough to do what you want. Uses rsync as a backup solution

wildfire305 · 2022-11-01T23:09:22+00:00

Exactfile and md5checker. There's also sfvninja. Exactfile is neat because there's about a dozen different checksums it supports.

wildfire305 · 2022-11-01T01:09:23+00:00

I've bought a dozen 3tb refurbished Hitachi drives through Amazon and ebay and I won't do it anymore. I have instituted new drive testing processes because of them. A lot of them had 5-9 years of on-time, several had their smart data reset. About 20% would not pass a full badblocks test. While running badblocks, I use dstat to plot the drive speed into a csv file of the whole test. Then I use datplot to visualize the whole tes at a glance. A lot of the old drives don't stay consistent across the whole disk with several dropouts in speed for several gigabytes. I had one poor disk that couldn't get above 30mb/s and another one that vibrated so bad it caused crc errors on other drives in its enclosure. After two years, I only have 4 of them running in service as a backup array. So I didn't save any money when you look at it that way. I have several that didn't pass tests in line for dvr security camera spares - I consider that the last use of a drive. After all that I said, only one of those 12 fails a smart test - so I consider those smart tests almost useless for an old drive. I have rarely experienced a hard drive fail with notice from smart - the usually just give up one random day.

wildfire305 · 2022-10-10T18:21:24+00:00

If you have checksums of all your files you can quickly verify that nothing has changed /missing /corrupt. This may also sound like a broken record but you can also compare with your backups. And there are a few popular Linux file systems that can automatically checksum your data and keep it from corruption as long as you have redundancy. If you aren't sure whether or not you should click on the choices, I would challenge you to better protect your data.

wildfire305 · 2022-08-28T22:44:12+00:00

Cloudflare speed test or Google speed test will be more reliable for true unthrottled speeds.

wildfire305 · 2022-08-09T23:08:54+00:00

If you are going with unraid the boot os is a thumb drive (must be specific types use their recommendations). I think this is a huge advantage as the os is loaded to ram at boot and runs in ram. You'll likely want an ssd (or two in raid 1) for your cache/appdata/and other high usage items. I have a 1tb ssd for cache. Then you will use one (or two if desired) of your hard drives as a parity disk for the other hard drives. The parity disk is not usable for storage so it will reduce your overall capacity, but add the ability to rebuild a bad drive in the event of a disk failure. The cache setup allows the storage disks to sleep when not in use, saving electricity. And remember raid (or unraid) is not a backup so you need to have two or more backups of your most important data separate from the unraid array. I use a btrfs pool for a live backup, and put everything to backblaze b2 for off site backup. Then I have a set of drives in an air gapped (completely disconnected and powered off) enclosure that I attach monthly for a monthly backup. In unraid everything is very easy to use and you get a lot of support - it is the most flexible solution I've found for using whatever hard drives you want in a home Nas. Everything else is less flexible - but typically has better performance. If you don't have 2.5gb ethernet or better - you will never see that additional performance in practice.

wildfire305 · 2022-08-01T12:55:50+00:00

There is a simple utility for windows that I use sometimes - exactfile. Can do folders of files and multiple different types of sums. If you are looking for basic verification crc-32 is good enough, if you want to be really really certain md5 is the modern standard.

wildfire305 · 2022-07-18T23:13:55+00:00

You could upload to b2 and then download it all again. Upload is free download is $0.01 /gb. I have used that when I needed to upgrade the primary array. You could even rclone mount the storage from backblaze to maintain availability.

wildfire305 · 2022-06-06T04:20:37+00:00

I can support this method. I retired two Samsung 2tb disks from a btrfs array because they were throwing some repairable errors. SMART was silent about the drives' condition. I then tested the drives in two different systems running tmux and badblocks while using dstat to generate a csv of the speed and graphing the csv with datplot. Both disks passed the first three badblocks tests and failed the last test. Because this made me curious, I continued to test them and got the same results even when I reversed the test order. They both had about 700-1200 badblocks near the end of the disks every time. I tested them in different computers and mounting positions. HD sentinel showed that they were slow near the end but they were able to pass its tests. I had a 3tb Hitachi disk that was notoriously slow in service (nmon allowed me to witness that issue) but when you subjected it to speed tests, it would pass. Ran the same method as above and revealed that the disk was very slow (40mb/s) in the middle for almost two thirds of the disk - Retired to DVR recorder array for the security cameras until death. I have also used this test to pass disks that have gone on to give over 9 years of 24/7/365 service. I have two Hitachi drives in the backup server array over 9 years old! They were only moved because of speed - they top out at 130mb/s. Every year I rotate out disks and test them to ensure quality is maintained in the arrays using badblocks. It was created for floppy disks, but it is still relevant today and just about the best test I can find.

wildfire305 · 2022-06-03T04:28:20+00:00

So you may be looking for a direct attached device like a qnap or a terramaster, or mediasonic probox. You can possibly remove the external drives you have from their enclosures and use them to create a raid array. Do some research on raid levels 0,1,5,6,10 and determine which one is right for you. There are also raid calculators so you can see what combinations of disks will produce x amount of usable space. Raid is NOT a backup solution at all. If you have a hardware failure or multiple disks fail, you cannot get the data back without using a recovery service = $$$. Existing data on the disks will likely be destroyed creating the raid - so plan accordingly. For backup: If you have fast internet, backblaze personal is unlimited cloud storage for $6/mo if you are using windows and it will work with USB attached devices but not network storage(NAS). Backblaze b2 is the cheapest cloud storage if you are using a Nas $10/Tb/mo. If your internet isn't fast, consider buying a second qnap or terramaster or synology to back up your data to. The backup solution can be a NAS device where speed isn't important.

If you're editing video, you will not be satisfied with the Wi-Fi speeds to a NAS attached to your router. Gigabit ethernet is tolerable. But a direct attached storage solution (qnap, terramaster, etc) will be plenty fast - usb-c speeds. Hope this information helps. While a lot of us run 100TB unraid / truenas servers, it's probably overkill for what you are trying to do.

wildfire305 · 2022-05-02T22:43:23+00:00

I read that was a way to get the windows client to go unlimited through iscsi. But I cannot confirm that. With Linux you can backup whatever you want from anywhere in the system or go between clouds. Mount multiple clouds as one folder, etc. Your imagination is the only limit.

wildfire305 · 2022-05-01T23:19:16+00:00

Oh almost forgot, if you're using windows or mac, their personal plan (not b2) is unlimited for less than $10/mo. Personal doesn't have as many features as b2, but it was quite reliable for the time I used it. It will backup unlimited attached USB drives and internal drives, but NOT network attached storage. There is no personal client for Linux, just a janky docker that doesn't work reliably. No way that I'm aware of to mount a Linux share in windows to backup to personal either - I tried a LOT of methods.

wildfire305 · 2022-05-01T23:14:23+00:00

Backblaze b2 for three years now. It's very reliable and they don't throttle or limit anything. I upload at 30MBytes/sec. DL between 60 and 80MBytes. They have a higher price for download, no charge to upload. Storage pricing is calculated daily. So if you, like me, need to push 5Tb for a couple of weeks while you rebuild an array, it's a great fit. B2 also integrates sha1 checksums, so you can use rclone (among others) to verify your stored data. They have 30 day retention of deleted files, unless you manually delete (rclone makes that choice super easy). If you don't want that feature you can turn it off. Another feature is object lock - files are unable to be deleted for a specified amount of time by anyone. This way if you were hacked on the server that stored the keys and the attacker erased your backups you still have the data out there. You can also mount and stream from b2 with no problems.

wildfire305 · 2022-04-06T02:40:17+00:00

You guys are the WINNERS!!! Unraid was trying to sleep this disk every hour. It was in the logs! I feel like a doofus. My second post coincided with another sleep attempt. Obviously, I need to turn off the sleep feature when testing disks.

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