As previously discussed I’ve been gradually moving data over to my Drobo. I recently invested in a DroboShare, which lets me share the contents of the Drobo as NAS.
Although I run my data through a Windows Server, I have been toying with the idea of having a large majority of the [...]
The Register has reported that some UK banks are forcing their contractors to take a 10% pay cut or take a hike. It is usual for contractors to take the hit first as they are an easy target compared to terminating permanent staff and to be fair, as a contractor/consultant myself, if the [...]
I use Feed Demon to track all of my RSS subscriptions. The product integrates with Newsgator online and now with the iPod Touch. The benefit of having an online location for synchronising my feeds means I can run multiple Feed Demon copies from the different laptops I use on a daily basis.
I [...]
Last year I blogged about my replacement iPaq after my previous one failed. As I said at the time, it was dull, dull and more dull.
Earlier this year I bought an iPod Touch while in the US. It is a wonderful device. The screen is fantastic, the quality of the applications [...]
The BBC reported today of the next stages of the government and record companies’ attempts to crack down on illegal file sharing. Persistent offenders will have their internet connections cut off. Unfortunately, the genie is out of the bottle in terms of the ability for music to be copied [...]
Last week I posted about wasted hard drives, removed from arrays and crushed to prevent the leak of sensitive data.
I contacted HGST and Seagate to get some additional background. Here are their responses, slightly edited to correct any spelling mistakes but otherwise intact.
Seagate
(a) when will the technology be [...]
Infoworld have a great article here discussing how to save money on storage in these tight times we are experiencing. Here’s a summary – with my opinions of course!
Play Hardball with Vendors. Ah if it was only that simple. It may be possible to find another vendor selling hardware marginally cheaper, but [...]
I was asked again this week whether defragging of hard drives on Windows servers is really necessary. This is quite pertinent as the cost of deploying an enterprise-wide defrag tool can be significant and any opportunity to save money has to be a good one.
I discussed fragmentation last year (here) when [...]
There have been a raft of tape announcements in the last week, most notably the two 1TB wannabee’s IBM and Sun. For around a mere $37,000, plus the cost of a cartridge, I can backup 1TB of my most precious data. HP have also announced plans to extend [...]
Many financial and government organisations choose to destroy the hard drives that are declared as failing and removed from their arrays. They use products like this which make the hard drive unusable.
What happens to these hard drives? I presume they just end up in landfill and aren’t recycled. Is it beyond the [...]
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