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Today I’ve been copying all the music from the EHDD attached to PavNAS over the network to the old AIO (with the intention of not only listening to it (which is the whole point), but also finally getting around to sorting it - a massive job…)
It's (obviously) thousands of small files so it made an interesting* test of transfer speed: seemed to proceed at around 10MB\s. Is that good or bad? I should just be glad that it works, really!
In other news, I was helping someone else with their laptop and they were once again bemoaning the lack of storage space; 100GB just isn't enough in 2026, and buying a larger M.2 drive would be quite expensive these days. Why did laptops have to get so thin…? Remember when we could dump out the optical drive and put in a huge, cheap spinning rust HDD as a secondary drive for storage? Obviously optical drives are deprecated these days, but they could have left room for a little 2.5” drive… Or am I just stuck in the past with my 2.5” drives? (And the aforementioned literal stack of 3.5” drives!)
Anyway, I've previously faced the identical problem myself with a modern** laptop and wangled my way around it by using a 128GB card in the SD slot to store extra files (comics in my case; have I written about this before? It was when the laptop that's now PavNAS was temporarily the comic-reading computer).
I don't know why it was only on this occasion that the idea of an SD card hit me, but I popped to the shop*** and bought myself a (pricey) 256GB card; I'll pass on the 128GB card to more than double their laptop's storage.
Anyway (and I don't know why I'm writing about this before trying it), my plan is to put an SD card back into PavNAS and see if I can mount it as a storage device in OMV! I'm everso pleased with myself for thinking this up****. If it works, it should be quite quick to send & receive files to & from. I wanted to try it out today but was terrified of interrupting the music copying; I've previously found that changing anything on the OMV web interface makes copying hiccup, even if what one does has nothing to do with the drive in use. Best let the copying finish.
* subjective
** relative
*** almost; as previously recounted, Curry's barely meets the definition of a shop, carrying nearly no stock, and hardly staffed.
**** jinxed it now
