00:07:04 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): No Q&A session tonight so our next session will be next week, on Wednesday, March 18, 2026 Questions on any computer-related problems, mini-presentations (shares) on your favourite Windows, Linux or Android application are welcome. You can ask about or share information on any Computer Basics or Smartphone Basics issue. You can also send us a Loonie Link (URL of a recommended Canadian website) or details of a favourite YouTube tech video or channel. Send your suggestions for topics, useful apps, questions, and shares to: SuggestionBox@opcug.ca 00:11:58 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Welcome to all members and guests! Guests, if you want to join, see https://opcug.ca/join-or-renew/ 00:13:16 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): Once again, the Board of Directors has decided to offer a “two for one” special to new members. Sign up for a $20 membership by March 31st, 2026 and get an additional year at no additional cost. 00:13:49 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): For current OPCUG members, membership renewal dues are being waived. All members in good standing on March 31st, 2026 will have their membership expiry date extended by an additional year at no additional cost. 00:19:46 Tom Trottier@Moon Base: Go alt-tab until you reach participant screen, then Share, then choose window or screen to share 00:47:30 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): A micro-USB drive plugged into a router can provide a quick and easy way to transfer files (e.g. photos from a smartphone) to a PC. Both the phone and the PC can connect to a shared folder on the USB drive. 00:51:55 Tom Trottier@Moon Base: Modern wifi is much faster: 00:51:57 Tom Trottier@Moon Base: Mbits Wi‑Fi 5 802.11ac 2013 6.5–6,933 Wi‑Fi 6 802.11ax 2021 0.4–9,608 Wi‑Fi 6E Yes Yes Yes Wi‑Fi 7 802.11be 2024 0.4–23,059 00:54:05 Tom Trottier@Moon Base: I think most ISPs don't like users hosting websites 00:54:17 Tom Trottier@Moon Base: unless you pay for commercial service 00:54:55 Harvey Hope: I use a "white-list" firewall on my Synology NAS. 00:56:39 Tom Trottier@Moon Base: https://diskprices.com/?locale=ca 00:56:44 Tristan: RAID levels explained. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels 00:56:57 Tom Trottier@Moon Base: Raid 5 needs three or more drives 00:57:09 Tristan: With RAID 0, 1, 5 & 6 being the most common. 00:57:21 Tom Trottier@Moon Base: Offers more speed and more reduncancy 00:57:37 Ed Morawski: Raid 5 is possible on as little as 3 drives. It is striping across drives with parity 00:57:47 bob g: Biil: It appears you use Synology NAS. Have you looked into any other brands? And if so, any recommendations ? 00:59:35 Ed Morawski: Raid 5 is common in company/commercial installations where raid units will mor likely be 5 of more drives. 00:59:47 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Replying to "I use a "white-list"..." @harvey - care to expand on what that means? We have lots of time... 01:00:30 Tom Trottier@Moon Base: Raid 6 can recover from two drive failures, needs five plus drives 01:00:34 Harvey Hope: Bill: Do you use the NAS VPN server to allow connections over the Internet. 01:02:15 Tristan: Backup to another NAS at a friend/family house. Otherwise the most cost effective cloud based backup is Backblaze B2 storage. 01:03:39 Tristan: https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/pricing 01:04:31 Tom Trottier@Moon Base: USB 4, thunderbolt offer up to 80 Gbit connections 01:05:18 Harvey Hope: Replying to "I use a "white-list"..." @Chris - A "white-list" only allows a known connection to the NAS, such as DynDNS IP registration, user access ... 01:06:27 Tom Trottier@Moon Base: Common ethernet is one Gbit. Can go up to ten or one hundred. 2.5Gbit is economical now. 01:07:00 Tristan: Synology is currently one of the better off the shelf NAS. If you prefer to build your own the following could be used: TrueNAS Community (Free) OpenMediaVault (Free) SnapRAID (Free) Unraid (a minor cost for the license) 01:08:16 Tom Trottier@Moon Base: Good 4k video needs 25 to 80 Mbits/second 01:09:38 bob g: Thanks, Tristan 01:10:01 Harvey Hope: I use Synology Cloud Sync to sync NAS files to the cloud. 01:11:19 Tristan: For a NAS like any other important data, the 3-2-1 backup strategy applies. https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/ 01:12:20 Tristan: RAID can help with a disk failure, however it will not save you from accidental deletes or ransomware. 01:13:56 Tom Trottier@Moon Base: If you keep versions, then even ransomware does no kill everything 01:14:06 Harvey Hope: Synology has a #recycle folder to hold deleted files. 01:14:14 Tristan: A really simple "NAS" can just be a file share on Windows. 01:14:29 Tom Trottier@Moon Base: Reacted to "A really simple "NAS..." with 👍🏼 01:18:10 Carol: Enjoying the beautiful, peaceful image while you teckkie folks chat 🙂 . . . Might anyone know the location &/or source of said pic? 01:18:15 Michelle Faber: Good night. I need to go. 01:18:37 France Picard Ottawa: Reacted to "Enjoying the beautif..." with 👍 01:18:46 Tristan: The really bad news is, a NAS and anything else computer related is very expensive now. Thanks to AI sucking up all the memory, storage and cpu production. 01:19:21 Stew Bruce: Replying to "Enjoying the beautif..." I think Bill might be still screen sharing. 01:20:05 Steve Parker: Replying to "Enjoying the beautif..." Yes he is 01:20:05 Captain Timothy: It looks nice but it may be not real. 01:21:00 Carol: Replying to "Enjoying the beautif..." Yes thanks, I thought so; been holding off on asking during the discussion 01:22:26 Kal_Somo OPCUG: I find it very peaceful on Mars. Wilson there is my only pal ! 01:22:56 Harvey Hope: Replying to "It looks nice but it..." Look in \Windows\Web folder 01:23:32 Tristan: I am. 6 drives on TrueNAS. 01:23:53 Captain Timothy: I thinking more about doing it. 01:24:18 Kal_Somo OPCUG: I used to run NDAS by Ximeta Gave it up after limited benefit. 01:24:34 Ed Morawski: 2 drive QNAP NAS. 01:24:45 Jocelyn Doire: FreeFileSync can be also another approach to backup 01:24:54 Tom Trottier@Moon Base: Cheapest storage on https://diskprices.com/?locale=ca is $24/TB 01:25:10 Tristan: The dream machine. But alas I can't justify the cost. https://store.45homelab.com/configure/hl15beast 01:25:23 Richard Bradford: Is there a recording of "Fun with Fonts" available anywhere? 01:25:43 Tristan: That is a Canadian company too. 01:27:45 Jocelyn Doire: Memory's price went up a lot, is it the same for hard drive? 01:27:53 Tristan: Generally speaking for Synology or any other, should use the NAS rated drives. 01:28:52 Tristan: WD Red Pro and Seagate Ironwolf Pro 01:30:31 Tristan: Can also try your luck with used enterprise drives. https://serverpartdeals.com/collections/hard-drives 01:30:55 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): Replying to "Is there a recording..." Richard - An early version is posted on OPCUG's website Past Meetings > 2021 > May 12. I would also bet that Chris would give this presentation to your club! 01:31:05 Harvey Hope: I'm using 2 x WD Red SA500 NAS SATA SSD 01:31:31 Tristan: Ouch even those used enterprise drives are 4x the cost they were just 6 months ago. 01:32:51 Harvey Hope: Replying to "Ouch even those used..." Buy when low ... months ago 01:34:08 Kal_Somo OPCUG: Canada Computers has the 12Tb HGST server drive for $ 528.99 ! A relative bargain ! 01:35:17 Tom Trottier@Moon Base: Seagate Expansion 22TB External Hard Drive https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0DW8ZW47C 01:35:33 Tom Trottier@Moon Base: $520 01:36:02 Jocelyn Doire: I guess Win11 requiring new computers also added pressure on prices of RAM and hard-drives 01:36:34 Tristan: If cheap enough for an external, you can also shuck them. Which is rip it apart to take the hard drive out to use internally. 01:37:27 Tom Trottier@Moon Base: https://www.facebook.com/groups/hkepc/posts/2356476424799802/ CMR, fast 01:37:59 Harvey Hope: Abacus 2.0 is cheap ... 01:39:21 Tom Trottier@Moon Base: Linux can run on 80286... 01:40:24 Harvey Hope: MacBook Neo ?? 01:41:15 Tristan: There is also rumour that Windows 12 will require an NPU. 01:41:18 Tom Trottier@Moon Base: You can get NASs with just SSDs 01:41:54 Captain Timothy: Thank you Bill for your presentation tonight. 01:41:57 Deborah: Thank you! Have a good night. 01:42:02 Harvey Hope: Thanks Bill