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2021

Work Update; Joining Druva

Back in late Janurary, I joined a new company, Druva. They do really fancy stuff with enterprize backup and data-protection. They are mostly on top of AWS, with a couple of on-prem solutions as well. I have joined as a software engineer in the Druva Labs team. This team focuses on building early versions of new products that the company can offer.

The Opportunity

Storage-Benchmark

I bought myself a 5TB external Hard-drive from Seagate. I am going to use this for my home-server build. The computer will the the Raspberry-Pi which I already have. It's time to up my seeding game. Before installing it on my server I wanted to run some benchmarks on it.

What/Why Benchmark ?

Raspberry-Pi-Cooling

Got a raspberry Pi 4(8gb). I ran a bitorrent on-it and used it mainly as a seedbox. Primary target was seeding Libgen torrents. This was fine for a while and there was no significant heating.

Now, I want to turn this into a local home-storage/home-media server. This will be some work for the small computer and needed some active-cooling.