What did you do in your shed / man cave today?

Foo · October 02, 2021, 04:56:45 AM

^^^^What he said, very

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Foo

Troopy_03 · October 02, 2021, 10:09:15 AM

I finally had success putting a new HDD in a WD My Cloud single bay "NAS" (in inverted commas because it's barely a NAS) Man talk about a convoluted way of operation. This has been a project that's been ongoing, off and on, for a couple of weeks now, with every previous effort hitting a brick wall somewhere in the process. Even with a still usable (but slowly dying) HDD of the same brand and model as the replacement, it was still a PITA. You would think it was simply a case of cloning the drive... nah, not that easy LOL. Building the drive partitions (seven of them) manually still took three attempts before the NAS would recognise it and allow you to access the web interface, so that you could allow the device to rebuild and reformat the partitions to it's own liking.

As opposed to my Synology NAS, that I fitted two brand new drives to, without losing any data, simply by replacing the drives one at a time and letting the system rebuild the drives individually as they were replaced.

Anyway, it's up and running now, so the daughter will be able to stream her own music to a new digital streamer I got for her.

Anyone contemplating buying one of these devices, I would strongly recommend them checking out the alternatives.

Fizzie · October 03, 2021, 07:12:57 AM

By my very limited understanding, if it's a multi-bay unit, the remaining drive/s rebuild the new one, but if it's only a single, it's got to do it all itself, which is much harder

Bird · October 03, 2021, 11:02:31 AM

Quote from: Fizzie on October 03, 2021, 07:12:57 AM
By my very limited understanding, if it's a multi-bay unit, the remaining drive/s rebuild the new one, but if it's only a single, it's got to do it all itself, which is much harder

would depend if its setup with Raid and which level or not
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels

Troopy_03 · October 03, 2021, 04:58:05 PM

Quote from: Fizzie on October 03, 2021, 07:12:57 AM
By my very limited understanding, if it's a multi-bay unit, the remaining drive/s rebuild the new one, but if it's only a single, it's got to do it all itself, which is much harder

Correct, to a point, but I'm talking about actually setting up and assigning partitions on the drive. But yes, a two/multi bay device (as long as it isn't a wd cloud type monstrosity) is much easier and safer to use.

Troopy_03 · October 03, 2021, 05:04:16 PM

Quote from: Bird on October 03, 2021, 11:02:31 AM
would depend if its setup with Raid and which level or not
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels

Yep.. the MyCloud doesn't use RAID. But even trying to clone from the original drive, it reported "target device too small" for the same brand and model number drive.. But thinking back, it was probably due to the partition table wrong format. MSDOS instead of GPT. Which is why the original drive is shown as unallocated space in Win and Linux Mint. Easiest way is to SSH into the NAS and partition and assign manually.

DrewXT · October 03, 2021, 11:49:31 PM

Spent the weekend moving Shit between the house garage and new shed, building some shelves and can finally get the bride's car inside just before we've been here 3 years... Absolutely rooted....

Next mission will be to get the 4wd in there as well...

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#jonesy · October 04, 2021, 05:14:54 AM

Didn't take long to make the shed look lived in.

Fizzie · October 04, 2021, 06:38:49 AM

& you've got the floor dirty!!!

DrewXT · October 06, 2021, 10:52:57 PM

Quote from: Fizzie on October 04, 2021, 06:38:49 AM
& you've got the floor dirty!!!

That's the house garage... The new shed looks like a bomb's gone off in it... Next few weeks should see it tidied up

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D4D · October 07, 2021, 06:26:10 AM

Quote from: DrewXT on October 03, 2021, 11:49:31 PM
Spent the weekend moving Shit between the house garage and new shed, building some shelves and can finally get the bride's car inside just before we've been here 3 years... Absolutely rooted....

Love your rack

NZMarkb · October 07, 2021, 07:51:20 AM

Quote from: D4D on October 07, 2021, 06:26:10 AM
Love your rack

I bet you say that to all the girls

DrewXT · October 07, 2021, 12:20:53 PM

Quote from: D4D on October 07, 2021, 06:26:10 AM
Love your rack

That's my line

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Pottsy · October 07, 2021, 02:24:24 PM

Something completely different for me, I have some clock faces that have been in the cupboard for months so I thought I better get to and do something with them. Face is are 70mm to give you some scale. The Napoleon is in Myrtle, the Cone is Huon pine and the Art Deco is Huon pine with Jarrah, Blackwood and Myrtle wings.

bmwfreak · October 07, 2021, 05:44:29 PM

Quote from: Pottsy on October 07, 2021, 02:24:24 PM
Something completely different for me, I have some clock faces that have been in the cupboard for months so I thought I better get to and do something with them. Face is are 70mm to give you some scale. The Napoleon is in Myrtle, the Cone is Huon pine and the Art Deco is Huon pine with Jarrah, Blackwood and Myrtle wings.

Bout time you did something other than motor vehicles🤣

Fizzie · October 08, 2021, 08:30:24 AM

Are these going in the Classifieds as well?

D4D · October 08, 2021, 08:44:12 AM

Has anybody installed an attic ladder in their garage? I need some more storage space and was thinking about installing an attic ladder and putting ply across the truss. As you can see from the pic there's not much space between the truss so it would be a bit of Tetris. Thoughts, suggestions???

GeoffA · October 08, 2021, 08:58:45 AM

Not much head and shoulder room up there Jamie....

Maybe ditch the fixed ladder idea and put ply across the bottom chords in 2 or 3 bay lots, leaving every third or fourth bay open for access from below?

Bird · October 08, 2021, 09:01:30 AM

Quote from: D4DThoughts, suggestions???

Are you really going to gain that much usable space for the effort?

Pottsy · October 08, 2021, 11:18:58 AM

Quote from: Fizzie on October 08, 2021, 08:30:24 AM
Are these going in the Classifieds as well?

Are you after one Fizzie? These are just spares so I can do one if you like.

DrewXT · October 09, 2021, 09:19:18 PM

You really needed attic trusses up there, we did a conversion at our place in Ringwood, but it was a built frame roof that we turned into a complete room.

BTW, the roof rack isn't hanging straight with the mortar courses

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GGV8Cruza · October 10, 2021, 05:57:50 PM

Sat for my standard Amateur license to day in radio. Think i went ok. Gave me something to pass the time over the last couple of months while locked away. Hopefully get the results in the next week

Made up this unit to hold all my gear and the desk folds away when the 200 goes to bed

GG
VK3GJG

plusnq · October 10, 2021, 06:23:13 PM

Nice work. Are you just going basestation to mobile as well?

Hairs · October 10, 2021, 07:00:56 PM

Nice setup mate.
You've given me an idea.
Cheers

GGV8Cruza · October 11, 2021, 05:06:02 AM

Quote from: plusnq on October 10, 2021, 06:23:13 PM
Nice work. Are you just going basestation to mobile as well?

Yes, nothing HF in the car at the moment but will soon. Like to put up a wire when we are out camoing but that has ben way too long due to lockdown.

GG

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