gwax's rumblings

I recently con­sid­ered the nam­ing of abyss and decided that the word oubli­ette made a bet­ter name. Oubliette is a much more appro­pri­ate descrip­tion in under­stand­ing the theme and pur­pose of the machine as a replace­ment for thevoid.

The name change hap­pened a while ago but I’m bring­ing it up now because oubli­ette is on my mind. Having just pur­chased six Western Digital 1.5TB dri­ves and another SATA con­troller, it is finally time to obso­lete the last rem­nants of thevoid. This actu­ally stirs some amount of sen­ti­men­tal­ity in me but, even though the hard­ware and oper­at­ing sys­tem are no longer that of thevoid, oubli­ette will carry the pur­pose and data for­ward. It is almost as though oubli­ette is my ghola thevoid.

For those with tech­ni­cal inter­est, the dri­ves will be arranged in an mdadm RAID6 array with luks dm-crypt. This should pro­vide me with 6TB, secure stor­age, and two dri­ves worth of failsafe.