by Robin Harris | Friday, July 20, 2007 | Backup, Future Tech, Off-Topic, SOHO/SMB |
In a recent post, A Terabyte in the home? Hitachi’s CTO, the redoubtable Hu Yoshida writes I don’t believe there will be a market for home storage units. I believe internet service providers will provide the storage and data management for our personal data....
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, July 11, 2007 | SOHO/SMB |
I just did a post over at the more consumer-oriented StorageMojo doppelgänger Storage Bits titled “Who makes the best hard drives?” In it I attempted to determine, based on simple search requests, if any drive vendor had a real advantage or disadvantage....
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, May 30, 2007 | Backup, SOHO/SMB |
I got into it today on ZDnet with one of the other bloggers, George Ou, who published Why dumb-downed no-RAID storage is bad for consumers. As I believe that RAID is an idea whose time is coming to a close, I responded with Why home RAID won’t fly. So far, ZDnet...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, May 2, 2007 | Enterprise, Security & Public Policy, SOHO/SMB |
Over at Storage Bits, my new ZDnet blog, I wrote about Secure Erase, a feature that Walter Purvis at Data Mobility Group told me about. Secure Erase (SE) excited so much attention over there that I thought I’d take a more leisurely stroll through it here. Free,...
by Robin Harris | Monday, March 19, 2007 | Backup, SOHO/SMB |
Culinary history: old wedding cake in the freezer? An long time friend of mine is working with the Culinary Historians of New York on a project to gather and preserve the records of a Depression-era WPA project. According to the CHNY: The mission of “America...
by Robin Harris | Friday, March 9, 2007 | Backup, SOHO/SMB |
In January I wrote about installing a $35 OEM dual-layer, Lightscribe DVD burner in a $30 Firewire/USB case. Since then I’ve been playing with Lightscribe CDs and I must say, I like the technology. It isn’t perfect, but for the extra $5 it cost to get a...
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