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Robin Harris has been messing with computers for over 30 years and selling and marketing data storage for over 20 in companies large and small. He introduced a couple of multi-billion dollar storage products (DLT, the first Fibre Channel array) to market, as well as a many smaller ones. Earlier...- more about Robin Harris »
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- A chump's game? Swoopo VC responds
- Separating fools - or, in my case, the momentarily bored - from their money is an ancient occupation. So is 3 card monte. That doesn’t make it right. by Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2009-11-30
- Swoopo: a lottery disguised as an auction?
- Here's a good business: sell products for 3x retail - and have people pay for the privilege. Cool! The bad news: someone already thought of it. How do they get people - including me - to sign up for such a bad deal? by Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2009-11-29
- Light Peak: black hole
- Light Peak is a high-speed optical I/O interconnect - starting at 10 Gbit/sec and scaling to 100 - whose parents are 3 of the biggest I/0 screwups in high tech: Sony, Apple and Intel. Can you spell doomed? by Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2009-11-23
- Disks: why size means performance
- Big hard drives have performance benefits that are at least as important than their raw capacity - and they may be the best and cheapest upgrade you can make to your system. Here's why. by Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2009-11-18
- A 4 SSD array: Apricorn pt 2
- Itching for bragging rights with the gamers next door? Want to edit uncompressed HD video without breaking the bank? I turbocharge Apricorn's internal PCI-e array card with 4 Intel X25-M SSDs. Yup, its fast! by Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2009-11-05
- Gallery: A visit to Microsoft's first store
- The first Windows retail store is an impressive effort. Sure, they stole freely from Apple, but why not? Few civilians will notice or care about the similarities - unless the stores are in close proximity. by Robin Harris
- Image galleries 2009-11-02
- A visit to Microsoft's first store
- Microsoft's new stores are an almost exact copy of Apple's. And they didn't do too badly. See for yourself. by Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2009-10-30
- Long-term Mozy for Mac review
- Mozy for Mac was the first low-cost online backup service for Macs. But after using it for over 2 years at my own expense I dumped it. Here's why. by Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2009-10-28
- Mac ZFS is dead: RIP.
- Apple made it official this week: the innovative ZFS file system for Mac OS X is dead. Who killed it? by Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2009-10-25
- Net neutrality: a faster Internet for all
- Net neutrality means a faster network for everyone - despite what the telcos say. Net neutrality makes ISPs focus on us, their customers, instead of chiseling money from Google and Microsoft. And that's a good thing for all of us. by Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- DRAM errors in embedded systems
- DRAM errors are just a problem for main memory: they also afflict embedded subsystems, like disk controllers, that use DRAM. Where are the problems and what can you do? by Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- Optical storage: RIP
- TDK's 10 layer, 320 GB Blu-ray disk is a remarkable technical feat. Too bad it will never be a commercial success. Optical is a dead end - and soon it will just be dead. Here's why. by Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2009-10-11
- DRAM error rates: Nightmare on DIMM street
- A two-and-a-half year study of DRAM on 10s of thousands Google servers found DIMM error rates are hundreds to thousands of times higher than thought -- a mean of 3,751 correctable errors per DIMM per year. This is the world's first large-scale study of RAM errors in...
- Blog posts 2009-10-04
- What does 6 Gbit SATA mean to you?
- Seagate announced a new disk with a 6 Gbit/s SATA interface, a 64 MB cache and 2 TB of capacity. What do the faster interface and higher cache mean to you? by Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2009-09-21
- Terabit 3-D chips will keep the flash party rolling
- Industry seers have been predicting the end of NAND flash's rapid price declines and density increases due to physical limits. But if you can't get smaller, get higher. Here's how Samsung plans to mass produce 1 Tbit chips in 2013. by Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2009-09-16
- 4 reasons NOT to upgrade to Snow Leopard today
- Upgrading to a new dot release of Mac OS X is almost a no-brainer. They typically offer better security, more stability and - maybe - new features. But Snow Leopard is a very different beast than Leopard. If you make money with your Mac, make haste slowly. by Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2009-09-14
- Will flash DIMMs replace disks or DRAM?
- Flash-based DIMMs open another front in the flash war on older storage technologies - this time against DRAM. When they hit the market, will it be DRAM or disks that take the hit? by Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2009-09-10
- Build a RAID 6 array for $100/TB
- Build your own cloud-style storage for $100/TB that makes Amazon's S3 look pricey. Perfect for ripping 10,000 DVDs to disk! by Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2009-09-01
- Snow Leopard fixes disk capacity bug
- You bought a 1 TB disk, so why does the computer say the capacity is 932 GB? For a simple - and dumb - reason that Apple has now fixed in Mac OS 10.6. Can Microsoft be far behind? by Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2009-08-30
- Apple kicks ZFS in the butt
- Apple promised ZFS on Snow Leopard - and didn't deliver. A Mac's data integrity is now no better than Windows. And that's not good enough. by Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2009-08-28
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