Stopping a friend from destroying their data

Apr 3, 2026

Don't you love getting a phone call from a friend who managed to fry their filesystem — again? One impatient person, six external drives juggled across two USB ports, and a habit of pulling the plug at the worst possible moment. What started as a quick fix turned into a full custom TrueNAS build, drive shucking, a raidz1 CLI hack, and a dying drive dramatically proving my point right in front of its new owner.