Note: It looks like Apple now has the correct drivers available for direct download and upgrade. None of this should be required anymore. Got a Hewlett Packard printer? Got Snow Leopard? Apple and HP report that the OS X 10.6 install DVD includes all required drivers and software, but it didn’t work for me. I [...]
No 64-Bit Snow Leopard Kernel For You!
August 30, 2009 By 33 Comments
There is clearly a ton of interest in Mac OS X 10.6, Snow Leopard: My Snow Leopard features hardware compatibility chart had over 20,000 visitors in just three days! But one chart element is generating an inordinate amount of interest: Whether or not Snow Leopard can boot in 64-bit mode.
Pillar First To Put Faith In 2 TB Enterprise Drives
August 27, 2009 By 2 Comments
That didn’t take long! Just two weeks ago, Xyratex announced that they would support Hitachi Global Storage’s 2 TB enterprise hard disk drives. We wondered at the time which OEM would be the first to ship such massive drives, and our question is answered today. Pillar Data announced today that they are now supplying 2 [...]
Iomega’s ix4-200d: A Killer Desktop Storage Array
August 27, 2009 By 50 Comments
Iomega is well into its second coming as EMC’s entry-level storage division. First, they applied EMC’s compact and full-featured LifeLine home storage software to existing gear, giving birth to the Home Media Network Hard Drive, StorCenter ix2, and StorCenter Pro ix4-100. Then they wooed the small-business community with the rack-mount StorCenter ix4-200r, adding iSCSI target [...]
What Is The Secret To Efficient Hard Disk Drives?
August 25, 2009 By 3 Comments
Hard disk drives, like the engines in our cars, have been massively upgraded over the last two decades. Although massive IOPS and horsepower get all the headlines, energy-efficient designs deserve a look as well. Manufacturers have recently introduced some new tricks to coax out a little more performance and capacity from a lot less energy, [...]
Mac OS X 10.6 “Snow Leopard”: In Our Hands August 28!
August 24, 2009 By 36 Comments
Apple’s bizarre online store reboot this morning revealed that the next point-update for Mac OS X will be in the hands of the faithful this Friday, August 28! Many speculated on the purported September availability of the operating system upgrade, but today’s information clears the air. Although Apple’s web site clearly states that Snow Leopard [...]
EMC V-Max FAST: Coming in December … And 2010!
August 17, 2009 By 5 Comments
EMC’s Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST) was one of the most welcome annoucements made during the Symmetrix V-Max introduction. It would be a significant modernization of EMC’s Symmetrix line, and would be one of the first unique features of the Symmetrix V-Max line. But many, including me, were disappointed to learn in May that FAST [...]
2 TB Enterprise Drives Are Here?
August 14, 2009 By Leave a Comment
That didn’t take long! Less than a month after Hitachi introduced their 2 TB enterprise disk drive, Xyratex has announced that they will offer the drive in their OEM storage systems. The A7K2000 is 7200 rpm 5-platter design with a 3 Mb/s SATA interface: Not exactly high-end, but backed by the reputable folks at Hitachi [...]
Training Consumers To Jump For Phish
August 10, 2009 By 1 Comment
Never enter login or password information anywhere but the intended location! After a decade of this warning, why would people enter their username and password or financial account information on random web sites? Maybe it’s because the very entities who are supposed to be concerned about identity theft and fraud just keep trying to train [...]
If Storage Vendors Were Automakers…
August 7, 2009 By 8 Comments
