by Robin Harris | Wednesday, April 19, 2006 | Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
With Samsung’s announcement of a 32GB hard drive replacement using flash memory (like that in USB thumb drives) instead of rotating disks, the SSD is set to conquer a new market: the ultra-portable laptop. It is about time. I owned and daily used for over five...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, April 18, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech, Security & Public Policy, SOHO/SMB |
Even though disk storage gets about 5-10% cheaper every quarter, people still hate paying for it. A new CPU goes faster, a new display is brighter and/or bigger, but new storage just sits there until we fill it up. For that reason, the idea of RAID 5 (see the...
by Robin Harris | Monday, April 17, 2006 | Backup, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SOHO/SMB |
Low-end RAID 5 is now available for less than a $1 a gigabyte, a tremendous deal for small businesses and home offices. Available at Buy.com and at Fry’s Electronics Outpost.com the Buffalo Terastation is a compact and luggable RAID array. What is a RAID array?...
by Robin Harris | Saturday, April 15, 2006 | Security & Public Policy, SOHO/SMB |
The special interest attack on the Internet continues. Even as America falls further behind other industrialized countries in broadband penetration and network providers pursue plans to charge content providers for quality access, a new threat is emerging. According...
by Robin Harris | Friday, April 14, 2006 | Backup, Enterprise, Security & Public Policy, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Slash dot points to this story from the BBC and AP about military secrets being sold along with USB drives in Afghan bazaars. The flash drives are stolen from US military bases by Afghans working in them. A few thoughts: Maybe they should pay the Afghans a little...
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