by Robin Harris | Tuesday, May 2, 2006 | NAS, IP, iSCSI, SOHO/SMB |
Hey, the way gas prices are going up and NAS prices are coming down, this isn’t as far-fetched as you might think. Gartner Dataquest notes that the smallest segment of the NAS market, systems that cost less than $500, has exploded over the past two years, and...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, April 27, 2006 | Backup, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SOHO/SMB |
PC World’s review of 1TB disk boxes makes some important points. “With every drive we tested, we found setup easy and straightforward. The biggest differences in setup involved the connection interface and the drive configuration options (for features like...
by Robin Harris | Monday, April 24, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech, SOHO/SMB |
Maybe I’m late to the party but I just noticed that Hitachi is touting RVS, Rotational Vibration Safeguard (pdf). Since all disks in disk drives rotate, all drives have had rotational vibration from day one. So what’s new? Is this the equivalent of...
by Robin Harris | Saturday, April 22, 2006 | Security & Public Policy, SOHO/SMB |
In this post Prof. Eugene Spafford of Purdue talks about security and passwords. There are so many buzzwords and scare-tactic marketing in security that most of the non-technical people I know are reduced to the cyber equivalent of burnt offerings: they subscribe to...
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?...
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