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ZFS, HW RAID, and expensive mis-apprehensions: ZFS, HW RAID, and expensive mis-apprehensionsThe PC mentalityI'm constantly amazed at the number of PC admins who put a HW RAID controller in their specs for new kit. To give the same resilience as mirroring you need a hot spare so that's two disks wasted already (one lost in the...; Tags: SW RAID, disk, ZFS, Sun Microsystems Inc., mirroring, HW RAID; Discussion threads 2006-12-20

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A nice customer service experience with Dell?: Our central office needs a new server. Configuration is hardly rocket science: it's a mission critical application, DNS, and DHCP server, as well as a domain controller for the office. Fortunately, there are never more than 10 people accessing it, so a single server can get the job...; Tags: Customer Service, Dell Computer Corp., Servers, Hardware, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-06-30
HP Media Vault MV2120 (500GB): The HP Media Vault MV2120 is a two-bay network-attached-storage device with 500GB of storage and room to expand. It keeps things simple and serves up basic NAS features, including an iTunes server, remote Web access, and scheduled backups. While the device is a snap to set up, we found the...; Tags: Network-attached storage (NAS), Storage, Media Vault, hard drive, MV2120, Media Vault MV2120, NAS, HP Media Vault MV2120, Hewlett-Packard Co.; Product reviews 2008-06-27
(Fun with openSUSE 11.0): (Fun with openSUSE 11.0)But it's not Blue Like Windows ...Let's see who runs with that.I'm running OpenSuSE 11 on 2 machines and love both the KDE and GNOME desktop implementations. And, as an added surprise, all the server bits are there as well.If you've looked at Ubuntu or other...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Novell OpenSuse, openSUSE 11.0, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE 11, Linux, Microsoft Windows Vista, operating system; Discussion threads 2008-06-27
Western Digital VelociRaptor - Plenty of bark, not enough bite: Western Digital VelociRaptor - Plenty of bark, not enough biteI definitely want onenot sure I can justify the price. I saw the 750GB WD drives at Fry's for 109.00 on sale. What's the fastest 750Gb I wonder?I want one and i will tell you why.Gaming.When playing a game, you need...; Tags: Games, Western Digital VelociRaptor, Western Digital Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-06-20

Maybe I was wrong about Mac Servers: Maybe I was wrong about Mac ServersSo ZFS is the sole criteria for a quality server OS or not?Has data loss due the underlying file system really been the problem Robin and you are making it out to be?RE: Maybe I was wrong about Mac Serversye: Veritas VxFS indeed has...; Tags: Desktops, Servers, server, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh; Discussion threads 2008-06-20
Apple announces ZFS on Snow Leopard: Apple announces ZFS on Snow LeopardTimingHow sweet would it would be if App£e could deliver Grand Central and ZFS at the point of WINDOWS 7 release. The marketing people would have a field day!Kudos to Sun for inventing such a great FS.I wonder how long it will take for Apple...; Tags: RAID, Desktops, ZFS, Apple Inc., Snow Leopard, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-06-20
Apple announces ZFS on Snow Leopard: Finally, a modern file system on a consumer OS As if Grand Central weren't enough bad news for Microsoft, now they have ZFS to contend with. Building a reliable, high-performance file system takes years and Microsoft doesn't have years to respond. The formal announcement is...; Tags: Disk, File System, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Sun ZFS, Checksum, RAID, Storage, Hardware, Robin Harris; Blog posts 2008-06-19
SunSpider JavaScript benchmark and ACID 3 compatibility charts - Firefox 3.0 RC 3 and Opera 9.50 added: SunSpider JavaScript benchmark and ACID 3 compatibility charts - Firefox 3.0 RC 3 and Opera 9.50 addedMy sentiments exactly... ntntToughts? Yeah...IE 7 sucks.My Java 6 in Advanced is pulling off three other java proteges.It seems to be broke-in an in stalled correctly.RE: SunSpider JavaScript benchmark and ACID 3 compatibility...; Tags: Web browsers, Main Thing, Opera Software, Mozilla Firefox, ACID 3 compatibility chart, compatibility chart, ACID 3, SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark, Firefox 3.0 RC 3, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Opera 9.50, Web browser; Discussion threads 2008-06-16
HP Blackbird 002 to hit retail stores this summer - get some hands-on time before you buy!: HP has announced that the award-winning Blackbird 002 gaming system will be available in an exclusive configuration at Amazon.com, Newegg.com and select Best Buy, Circuit City, J&R and Micro Center retail stores and online shops this summer. This is the first time HP Blackbird 002 will be...; Tags: Hard Drive, Hewlett-Packard Co., Retail Company, Games, Retail, Personal Technology, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2008-06-09
Alienware Area-51 (Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770): From its chrome trim to its customizable case lighting, Alienware's Area-51 ALX high-end gaming desktop bears all the visual hallmarks of a luxury-class gaming PC. Our $7,738 review model came configured with Intel's highest-end Core 2 Extreme CPU, overclocked, no less, and a quad-graphics card set up, which give it...; Tags: Games, Intel Core 2 Duo, Intel Corp., Alienware, Area-51 ALX; Product reviews 2008-06-05
Gates rules out returning to Microsoft: Gates rules out returning to MicrosoftGet rid of BallmerGates should return, but they need to get rid of Ballmer first. That jumping monkey boy has done more damage than good for Microsoft. I'm not even a big MS fan, but I think Gates is forward-thinking enough to get the right...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-06-05
Build your own Google: In an earlier post I talked a bit about a start-up called Kickfire who are releasing an accelerated database appliance for MySQL applications in the 1TB-3TB range that gives comparable performance to an equivalent Oracle RDBMS setup for around a quarter of the price. Kickfire sounds compelling for utility...; Tags: Google Inc., Worker, Aster, Aster Beehives, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Jason Perlow; Blog posts 2008-06-05
What gets Photoshop cooking?: What gets Photoshop cooking?Heh heh hehPs CS3 on my 3.0GHz Core 2 Extreme with 8GB or RAM completed the Retouch test in 24 seconds with other stuff running ... one second short of the Mac Pro on the list ... I'm pretty sure that if I moved my scratch disk...; Tags: Memory, Adobe PhotoShop, PS CS3, RAM, http://www.blackviper.com; Discussion threads 2008-05-30
What gets Photoshop cooking?: Adobe Photoshop has been the app of choice for several generations of image editors. Tweaking its performance is a hobby for some, but what practices can really make a difference? Adobe blogger John Nack recently posted notes from the performance tuning presentation offered at Photoshop World by...; Tags: Adobe PhotoShop, Apple Macintosh, Performance, Microsoft Windows Vista, PDF Presentation, Mac User, Performance Management, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Human Resources, Workforce Management, Operating Systems, Software, David Morgenstern; Blog posts 2008-05-30
Falcon Northwest Mach V (Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770): Falcon Northwest's latest Mach V ($6,957, as reviewed) remains true to the company's reputation of high performance and best-of-breed craftsmanship. But for a few exceptions, its parts offerings remain on the cutting edge, and its smart system building philosophy results in outstanding performance. If your goal is to build the...; Tags: Processors, Memory, Intel Corp., Falcon Northwest, Mach V, Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770, Intel Core 2 Extreme, Intel Core 2 Duo; Product reviews 2008-05-29
Proposed NAFTA-like agreement would turn border guards into copyright cops: Proposed NAFTA-like agreement would turn border guards into copyright copsDeclaring war on your customers!Great PR move by big content! Apparently big content is feeling too much love from its customers! (These guys are hopeless!)Woot!Finally someone will be cracking down on all of those GPL violations as they cross the border,...; Tags: NAFTA, Proposed NAFTA, supreme, agreement; Discussion threads 2008-05-29
INetDisk Enterprise Edition (exe): INetDisk, is a network based virtualized disk mapping software, INetDisk can mapping some disk/RAID disks on a computer, but the disk source is a disk or a image file on another computer. The virtual disk which you mapping from other computers can be used as usual as local. it is...; Tags: Disk, KernSafe Technology; Software downloads 2008-05-27
Hammering a dual quad-core Xeon system: The other day I wanted to test out the viability of simultaneously transcoding six DVDs to six separate .MP4 files suitable for my iPod touch. So I loaded a few software utilities onto a dual quad-core Xeon system and put it through its paces. How did this system cope with...; Tags: Quad-core, ISO, Intel Xeon, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Iso standards, Processors, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Quality, Business Operations, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2008-05-26
Anyone ripped their entire DVD collection?: Anyone ripped their entire DVD collection?dvd collectioni have also been thinking about doing this, i have found that depending on how you are planning to stream the media you have to format it different ways. if you are using a windows media extender (xbox360) the vob files have to be...; Tags: Consumer electronics, DVD, DVD Collection, entire DVD collection; Discussion threads 2008-05-19