4 articles in the notebook
Encrypted QNAP volumes protect against stolen hardware, but someone must enter the key after every power loss. This BASH script in a cron job on another machine logs in, finds locked volumes and unlocks them automatically — security without the 3AM wake-up.
After reinstalling Windows Server 2012 R2 your Storage Spaces don't show up — not even in Computer Management. The fix: authorize the server for read-write and re-attach the virtual disks, via GUI or PowerShell.
NTFS symlinks are well-known to *nix users and unknown to most Windows users. Combine them with Dropbox and your IE favorites (or any folder) silently sync between machines.
"Yes!" and "No, never!" — both answers are right. SSDs don't care about fragmented reads, but NTFS does interesting things when free space gets fragmented. What actually matters, and what to do about it.