Some images captured while attending a wedding in Russell, New Zealand.

Some images captured while on a weekend get away New Plymouth, New Zealand

Some images captured while working in New York, United States

Some images captured while working in Mexico City, Mexico

Overview

It’s been a few weeks since I last posted about my adventure using FreeCAD to design a NAS enclosure, so this is Part 2 of the series.

Overview

I love to tinker with things — mostly computers. As anyone who tinkers knows, sometimes you break things… and sometimes you break things badly and lose data. Very important data.

Yes, you read that correctly: I lost all my wedding photos.

This happened while moving from Linux to Windows without backing things up properly. Yeah, I know — pretty stupid. 😄

Thankfully, after some more tinkering and running recovery software for a few days, I managed to recover everything.

This experience came with a few important takeaways:

• Encryption matters I was able to recover data that had been deleted years earlier across different operating systems. Data tends to linger on disks far longer than you expect.

• Backup, backup, and then back up again I did have an independent backup on an external hard drive — and still lost data. Something odd happened where it seems the backup didn’t recursively copy all files within folders. 😱

• Don’t leave backup drives attached to a tinker PC Which naturally leads to the idea of building a proper NAS to house all the drives safely.

And that’s exactly what this series is about.