aj’s blog

Together with some friends I’ve recently tested a temporary wireless network link between Graz and Leutschach, spanning a distance of over 57 kilometers. Using Ubiquiti 5GHz equipment we quickly achieved a stable link with a throughput of about 20 Mbit/s …

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I recently bought two Seagate Barracuda 7200 3000GB (SATA 6Gb/s) drives to be used in a Linux software RAID. I knew I had to be careful because of the Advanced Format (AF) layout used by these new drives. Turns out that this wasn’t the only thing that one has to keep in mind when dealing with such drives – GPT BIOS boot partition, anyone?

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