Put A Pathetic Old PC Back To Work Today
I came across an interesting product, NASLite+ from an outfit, Server Elements, that turns pathetic old PCs into servicable NAS (SMB/CIFS, NFS) heads. A 200Mhz Pentium with 64MB of RAM is recommended, and the minimum is a 486, according to Server Elements. It even...
ZFS: Threat or Menace? Pt. I
IMHO, both. In a storage industry where the hardware cost to protect data keeps rising, ZFS represents a software solution to the problem of wobbly disks and data corruption. Thus it is a threat to hardened disk array model of very expensive engineering on the outside...
USB Thumb Drive Working Environment From Lexar
Wouldn't be great to stroll into an internet cafe, stick a flash drive in the USB port, and have your desktop, bookmarks and documents immediately available without leaving any traces on the host machine? That is what Lexar is promising to ship in July with PowerToGo...
Ebay, Yahoo [Ehoo? Yabay?] vs Googzilla
No doubt panicking after StorageMojo.com's devastating analysis of their uncompetitive IT infrastructure costs [note to JWT: irony alert], Yahoo and Ebay announced a multi-year strategic alliance designed to ward off Google. The synergies are real. And ignore each...
John William Toigo Responds, Pt II
A much more considered response to the StorageMojo.com critique of the Storage Revolution effort. I'm looking forward to continuing the dialog with John and everyone else about open source storage. Comments always welcome.
MyLifeBits, NIMD, NSA and You. Or Rather, Us.
Update Back in 2002 I met several times with the CTO of a large defense contractor to discuss how my company could help them build a "network intrusion detection system". He described a system that would take in about 5 TB of data daily from about 500 network...
Killing With Kindness: Death By Big Iron
After reviewing the impressive Google File System, I wondered about Google's competitors: MSN, AOL and Yahoo. Is it possible to quantify the economic advantage of GFS over conventional enterprise architectures? NetApp's web site notes that Yahoo Mail uses NetApp...
Welcome DrunkenData.com Readers
Some posts you'll find interesting: The Storage Revolution Everyone Should Join The Google File System StorageMojo's Pricing Guides To Major Vendors RFPs for the Rest of Us Google-Style Storage In a Box StorageMojo.com is updated daily. Bookmark us and surf through...
Flash Garden: 16 GB USB Drive Price Drop
16GB Flash Drive Price Begins Downward Slide The price of the 16GB USB 2.0 flash drive dropped to $1175 at mWave, an almost $200 drop from less than a month ago. Two data points do not make a trend, but let's watch this and see if a 15% drop per quarter trend...
John William Toigo Responds
Over at DrunkenData.com, John William Toigo responded to The Open Source Storage Revolution Everyone Should Join with, well, condescension. Read his post here. I sent him a note in response that I trust he will soon post in the comments. I flagged the StorageMojo.com...
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