A very interesting read from Bob Cringely about a company he’s invested in that’s developing a new type of disk drive. It will use aluminum or titanium foil instead of traditional platters, consume 70-95% less power, and will be able to hold way more data in the same amount of space as a traditional drive [...]
A website “dedicated” to providing the “truth” about macs. Quite interesting…regardless if the editor can’t spell or speak english clearly. Link.
My domain is hosted at TextDrive, a company owned by Joyent. They are huge on Sun products, especially the new Solaris 10 and the X4500 box. Here is a promotional video from Sun that shows what Joyent is doing with their products.
Nice look of a hard drive working without the cover on. Link.
Just a quick post for those of us who come across RAID and seem to freakin’ forget what the levels mean:
A quick summary of the most commonly used RAID levels:
RAID 0: Striped Set
RAID 1: Mirrored Set
RAID 5: Striped Set with Distributed Parity
Common nested RAID levels:
RAID 01: A mirror of stripes
RAID 10: A stripe of mirrors
RAID [...]
It’s been years coming but it seems that the “solid state” era is fast approaching. TDK just announced their 32GB model, which is a fraction of the size of a standard 2.5 inch laptop drive. The prices of these things will remain high until the industry adopts them but over time, the sizes should increase [...]
Bingo Disk, a new service created by Joyent, was started today. It’s 100gigs of online storage for $199 a year. WebDAV support, totally secure and practically impossible for data loss (by the hardware…if you delete it, you’re screwed). The whole thing runs off Sun Solaris 10 and their X4500 servers. I [...]
I want one of these for my main monitor at work. Very cool.
Ten reasons to switch to ZFS with Solaris 10…and why we need to do this where I work.
Pretty entertaining article about the new Macbook from Apple and why it seems the entire industry is going “Glossy”:
Glossy displays have effectively taken over the entire laptop market. Why are they so popular? Here are three possible reasons.
They are better than matte-finish displays.
They are cheaper than matte-finish displays.
People are idiots.
We have some laptops at [...]
John Dvorak has written a great article over at MarketWatch.com regarding eight ways that Microsoft is “dead in the water.” It’s a small, yet to the point article with great insight. In summary, Microsoft has become to big and has forgotten their roots:
I see a company that has settled in and has become big, profitable, [...]
AC & NC has a one of the best RAID tutorial’s I’ve seen in a long time. Link.
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