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

• AJ *

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

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