iTunes has to be one of the worst applications Apple make. It it truly awful.
I find it incredibly difficult to track where files came from, what’s on my iPod Touch and not, what are duplicates and so on. The poor interface means I have files littered about my [...]
So after discussions on home storage, I’m going to do a weekly cleanup/report on what I’ve achieved. Here’s the baseline;
Main Server; 927GB of usable storage (via Drobo) – 768GB in use. (82.84%). In fact I’ve consolidated a pair of mirrored 400GB drives onto the Drobo to make the full 768GB, so I’ve already freed [...]
Marc Farley makes some interesting comparisons to storage purchasing decisions in a recent post. For the sake of disclosure, I do go to Costco and buy in bulk – no not 200lbs of chicken wings, but those things that can be divided and/or frozen (like salmon and coffee) – and more crucially things [...]
After my last post relating to personal data storage, I thought I’d spend some time and check out what I was currently using.
On my main server, I store my data on a Drobo unit. The Drobo’s visualisation of data is to present a 2GB LUN, regardless [...]
Claus Mikkelsen has woken up recently and started posting after a large break. Perhaps he’s preparing for all those impending Christmas deliveries. Anyway, the crux of his post it to explain how he’s moved from 2-4TB of home storage rather than take the time to sort out the mess of his home data. [...]
Chris Mellor just announced the news that EMC have bundled their Pi and Mozy acquisitions into a single entity, branded as Decho. I was far too slow and Storagezilla beat me to the mandatory EMC post.
So, with Mozy and Pi we now have our data and backups [...]
I feel drawn to post on the details of Atmos and give my opinion whether it is good, bad, innovative or not. However there’s one small problem. Normally I comment on things that I’ve touched – installed/used/configured/broken etc, but Atmos doesn’t fit this model so my comments are based on the marketing information EMC have [...]
I spent some time today with the good folks at 3Par, as offered by Marc Farley a few posts ago. It was good to get more of a background on the product and also see what’s happening in the future (although I can’t talk about that!).
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Yes, it’s almost here folks. The blogosphere tells us so. First of all, there’s Chuck Hollis’ latest post pondering the issue of how the storage cloud works and why it’s really difficult to pick up data quickly in geographically dispersed areas. He leaves us with the cliffhanger;
“The magic isn’t in [...]
Seagate have announced the availability of the next generation of Savvio 2.5″ drives running at 15K. Capacity is increased to 146GB (I’m waiting for confirmation this is the case as there are no data sheets online yet).
The capacity increase is overdue to keep up with the [...]
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