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- Geek Sheet: A Tweaker's Guide to Solid State Drives (SSDs) and Linux
- Is 20th century conventional Winchester multi-platter, multi-head random-access disk technology too quaint for you? Want to run your PC or server on storage devices that consume far less energy than the traditional alternatives? Want a portable or mobile storage unit that will never fail due to G-forces or "crashing?". Looking...
- Tags: Linux, Disk, File System, Solid State Disk, Kernel, Mandrake, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- A Friday Active Directory puzzler
- We just purchased a new server for our district's central office. Nothing super-special, just a Windows Server 2003 for compatibility with a payroll and HRM application install with lots of storage and a moderately speedy quad-core Xeon. The existing server is out of space, out of resources, recently...
- Tags: Domain, User Profile, Servers, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Dell opts for performance with R5400 data center-hosted desktop
- Dell unveiled its data center-hosted desktop product line on Tuesday. Unlike rivals Hewlett-Packard and IBM, Dell didn't build its solution on blade servers but instead opted for a high performance system using a 2U box called the Dell Precision R5400 Rack Workstation. "By not putting the solution...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Performance, R5400, Workstations, Desktops, Servers, Hardware, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Sun Exec: Your 'Eco Data Center' doesn't have to cost millions. Some tips for getting there.
- OK, so here's the $100 million question: Do you really want to spend that much to make your data center more green or at least more efficient? I thought not, which is why I agreed to speak with Sun Chief Technologist for EcoDC and Virtualization Services, Phillip Morris, about more...
- Tags: Data Center, Virtualization, Sun Microsystems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Psystar's Thermopylae won't end Apple's clone nightmare
- Psystar's Thermopylae won't end Apple's clone nightmareRE: Psystar's Thermopylae won't end Apple's clone nightmareThe legal "Phalanx" is only one of several tools that Apple is heating in the furnace of hi-tech to fight the Cloners and maintain their iron grip on quality control of their hardware, which is their major...
- Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Operating systems, Apple Inc., Psystar, hardware, Thermopylae, clone nightmare
- Discussion threads 2008-07-16
- R-Studio for Mac (dmg)
- R-Studio for Mac is powerful and cost-effective data recovery software for Apple lovers. R-Studio for Mac is specially designed for Mac OS environment and recovers files from HFS/HFS+ Macintosh, FAT/NTFS Windows, UFS1/UFS2 (FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD/Solaris) and Ext2FS/Ext3FS Linux partitions. It also recovers data on disks, even if their partitions are formatted, damaged...
- Tags: Data Recovery, Apple Macintosh, Disk, File System, Desktops, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-07-15
- iFlyDisk (exe)
- iFlyDisk is a network based virtualized disk mapping software. iFlyDisk can do 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...
- Tags: Disk, KernSafe Technology, iFlyDisk
- Software downloads 2008-07-14
- Vox BlackBox (1TB)
- The Vox BlackBox offers 1TB of storage and can be found online from roughly $310 to $340. Aside from its low cost per gigabyte, there's unfortunately little to recommend about this dual-drive Network Attached Storage NAS device. From the desktop application to the Web-based interface, the device is consistently confusing....
- Tags: Network-attached storage (NAS), Storage, NETWORKING, BlackBox, VoX
- Product reviews 2008-07-11
- Seagate announce first 1.5TB desktop hard drive
- Seagate announce first 1.5TB desktop hard driveSeagate announce first 1.5TB desktop hard driveDamn thats a huge drive. Just think of all the adult entertainment you could store on that drive.Why?Give me a RAID 5 featuring four 500GB drives. Far more stable, faster, et cetera... of course, it...
- Tags: RAID, Storage, first 1.5TB desktop hard drive, desktop hard drive, Seagate Technology LLC, desktop, hard drive
- Discussion threads 2008-07-10
- 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
- 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
- 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
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