New Type of Disk Drive

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 [...]

Mac Sucks

A website “dedicated” to providing the “truth” about macs.  Quite interesting…regardless if the editor can’t spell or speak english clearly.  Link.

Joyent Promotional Video for Sun

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.

HDD Working w/o Cover On

Nice look of a hard drive working without the cover on.  Link.

RAID

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 [...]

TDK Solid State Disk

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 [...]

Joyent Starts Bingo Disk

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 [...]

Multi-Touch User Interface

I want one of these for my main monitor at work.  Very cool.

Solaris 10 and ZFS

Ten reasons to switch to ZFS with Solaris 10…and why we need to do this where I work.

Glossy Displays: Dumb

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 [...]

Microsoft is dead

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, [...]

Great RAID tutorial

AC & NC has a one of the best RAID tutorial’s I’ve seen in a long time.  Link.