Today is moving day for me. I’ve spent months packing up my life into three sizes of boxes (packetizing?) and now the movers are here to take it away (transport layer!) It’s amazing to me how tightly packed the first boxes are, and how sparse the last ones end up! Ironically, the most important stuff [...]
Storage History: The 3Server
June 25, 2007 By 5 Comments
Goodbye, old hardware
June 23, 2007 By Leave a Comment
The iPhone has a storage problem
June 22, 2007 By Leave a Comment
These computers are not junk!
June 21, 2007 By 1 Comment
Marc Farley challenged us storage geeks to wave our junk flags and reveal just how many computers we have. Well, I’m really not sure… Let’s see – in order of usefulness… Networked: Dell XPS M1210 laptop (killer!) with 120GB internal and 500 GB Western Digital My Book backup drive TiVo Series 3 with 250 GB [...]
My terabyte house
June 21, 2007 By 1 Comment
Hu Yoshida speculated in his blog that most folks would rather outsource their home media storage than keep terabytes of storage in their home. Sure, he was speaking for HDS, which has no home storage ambitions, but I respect him and can understand his point. I already outsource my personal email because I can get [...]
NetApp heads to the buffet
June 21, 2007 By 1 Comment
Microsoft’s best-kept secret
June 20, 2007 By 2 Comments
I’ve said before that Microsoft’s work in the field of enterprise storage was truly remarkable. Every other operating system vendor, as well as the grubby hordes developing Linux and BSD, should be ashamed that the “evil empire” beat them to the punch with great storage ideas like VSS, VDS, and transportable backup integration. Well, it [...]
What good is the TiVo Series 3 Aspect button?
June 20, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Coming clean
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