Tag: Sysadmin

Shucking a WD easystore and upgrading NAS

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I just got two Western Digital 8TB easystore external drives in the mail today. Which can only mean one thing, it’s time to shuck. Shucking external drives to get at the red NAS drives within tends to be much cheaper than buying internal drives directly. External drives tend to go on sale more often which … Continued

Installing Node.js on Ubuntu

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Arguably the most basic and repeated task for any Node developer is installing Node.js on a server. So it makes sense to find the quickest way to do it. The solution is node version manager or nvm. NVM makes it easy to install any version of node or multiple versions of node on the same … Continued