It arrived today, in a big box… My brand new NAS and 6 drives.

Opened the box at work cause one of the guys (Hi Matt), wanted to see what it looked like, but then it went back in the box and I put it in the car.

Once I got home and sorted out all the house/life stuffs, I set out to install the drives. I was amazed at how quick and easy it was to install the drives, completely tool-less.

Once I had the drives installed I booted it up, it took a couple of minutes, and all the lights flashed away.

After a quick network scan, I found the IP and then connected to it, and was greeted by a quick start wizard. Nice and simple.

It took about an hour to build the initial volume (6x3TiB ~= 18TiB volume). And it’s still busy verifying the volume which is gonna take a while.

Then I just need to move all my data from my old server, and then put the two 3TiB drives from there into the NAS, and then all done

Lets give this blog thing another go. It’s been a while since I last posted anything on a blog.

I have tried different things and I keep ending back here, on wordpress.

I also managed to pull in some of the old posts on my GitHub pages site.

A while ago I learned about the RaspberryPI, and I found out that it was good enough to use as a media player. Well I managed to get two, loaded OpenELEC on them, setup XBMC MySQL syncing and now both tvs are connected to my media collection.

I even got XBMC running on my Android tablet, also hooked up to the MySQL db, the only problem I had was that the paths were not working on the Android client, but a quick tweak to the path substitution in the XBMC advanced config file and everything is working.

The only thing I need now if to upgrade my space, currently running out of space. I’m looking to get the Qnap TS-870 Pro and 8 x 4TiB Western Digital Red harddrives. P.S. Donations are welcome

I’m hoping to put up a tutorial on how to setup OpenELEC and MySQL syncing, just need to make some time.

UPDATE Managed to get myself the Synology DS1813+ and 6 x 3TiB Western Digital Green Drives (I already have two), so this should last a while

I am really impressed with the new line of gadgets from Sony, so adding to my wishlist are the following:

• Phone
  • Xperia Z2
  • Style cover stand
  • Magnetic Charging Dock
• Tablet
  • Xperia Z2 Tablet
  • Bluetooth Keyboard and Cover
  • Magnetic Charging Dock
  • Screen Protector
• Other
  • Smartband
  • Smart Watch 2
  • Camera Lens
  • Smart Tags

My cellphone contract is up for renewal in April, I’m hoping that the Z2 will be available, but if it’s not available then I will have to wait an extra month or two

UPDATE Got my upgrade on 18th June 2014, all together I got the Z2, Style Cover, Smartband and Smart Watch 2.