kevin's blog

a random collection of musings

The Death Throes of a Seagate SMR Hard Drive

It's never a good sign when ZFS starts giving you **uncorrectable I/O failure** errors.

2 min read · March 16, 2019

2019 · tech homelab
Switching to Terminal Theme

A new look for the same site!

1 min read · March 12, 2019

2019 · meta
Fully Automatic Scanning with the Scansnap S500M on Linux

One-button scanning to PDF from a $50 scanner on eBay

5 min read · January 27, 2019

2019 · tech
LizardFS is Pretty Nice

My LizardFS storage setup - basically living the dream

6 min read · January 21, 2019

2019 · tech homelab
Gentoo on the HP Envy 15t (i7-7500U)

List of kernel configurations to run Gentoo successfully

2 min read · April 17, 2017

2017 · tech