By: John Stutsman I’m always looking at hard drives and ways that I can expand my storage capacity to better organize my systems and backups of those systems. The following is not strictly a review of the FreeAgent GoFlex 4TB or the WD USB 3.0 PCIe Card but more of a chronology of how well [...]
Guest post by forums member: ikon Zalman (http://www.zalman.com/eng/main.asp) is pretty well known for their computer accessories, particularly their CPU and GPU cooling products. Over the past few years they have expanded their line to include cases, power supplies, VGA cards, hard disk enclosures, and others. Recently, Zalman released a 2.5” hard drive enclosure that brings [...]
In the first part, I performance tested the parity volume to see how it stacked up against a hardware RAID. Now that we have seen the huge performance impact of parity volumes, it was now time to see how the Mirroring as well as the stripe-JBOD (drives are striped with no resiliency) performed. Original article [...]
Ever since I got back from CES I have been waiting for this controller card. The thought of mixing some SSD’s with hard drives seemed exciting to me. I realize that the Z68 performs many of the same features but what attracted me most was this card could be used on any motherboard, as well [...]
Recently I did some testing and a short video on Storage Spaces in Windows 8. Although very easy to use, the performance was not very impressive. I wanted to see if both the process, as well as the results would be the same under the new Server 8. Link to Windows 8 article: Storage Spaces [...]
Storage Spaces has been the buzz since the release of the consumer preview and the beta of Server 8. Naturally the attraction is the flexibility of the Storage Spaces and how easy it is to configure it. That being said, it also lays down the challenge, as so many DE replacements before it, to see [...]
A quick walk-through for creating a storage spaces parity volume. Make sure you check back for the benchmark results in the next segment.
Here is a press release of the card I saw at CES. Hopefully will have a review unit soon. This should be some real fun that will hopefully rival the Z68 without having to use the Intel Drivers and its scalable. Press Release: The RocketCache 3240X8 SSD Raid Caching
As far back as I can remember, I have disliked iTunes for the PC. Partially because it is a single PC solution, partially because I do not like the rigidity of the architecture, and mostly because it just performs badly on the PC. Thanks to “TimeKills” from our forums, I was informed of a post [...]
When I was at CES 2012 I got an opportunity to attend the WD event at Caesars Palace. During the event they had a drawing and as luck would have it, I won these WD powerline adapters. Powerline adapters have never been my favorite and not long ago I went around the block with several [...]
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