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January 27, 2012

Should Home Users Buy Enterprise Hard Disk Drives?

May 4, 2010 By Stephen 1 Comment

Are “enterprise” drives worth the extra cost in a RAID enclosure? The reason I ask is I’ve had 2 of 4 Seagate ‘consumer’ (7200.12) drives fail in my (Other World Qx2) enclosure. The two drives that failed were maybe a year old, well short of any ‘MBTF’ expectation. Enterprise drives cost nearly twice that of consumer drives.

Filed Under: Apple, Ask a Pack Rat, Personal, Terabyte home Tagged With: Drobo, hard disk drive, hard drive, Hitachi, Iomega ix4, Maxtor, OWC, RAID, Samsung, Seagate, Toshiba, Western Digital

Iomega Graduates and Goes to Work with the ix12-300r

May 4, 2010 By Stephen Leave a Comment

It all makes sense now: EMC's storage spectrum, from home to enterprise

EMC’s Iomega unit today released the rack-mount storage product we have all been waiting for. The new ix12-300r packs 12 drive bays, scaling from 4 TB all the way to 24 TB, and backs it with quad gigabit iSCSI, redundant power, and everything else the small data center needs.

Filed Under: Apple, Enterprise storage, Everything, Gestalt IT, Virtual Storage Tagged With: AFP, AX4, CLARiiON, D-Link, data robotics, Dell, Drobo, E-Lab, EMC, HP, Hyper-V, Iomega, iSCSI, ix12, ix12-300r, ix4, ix4-200d, ix4-200r, NAS, NetGear, NFS, Overland Storage, Promise, SMB, VMware

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How My Blog Became Infected With MW:JS:150 Malware (And How I Fixed It)

January 26, 2012

This week, two blog readers let me know what Google Chrome was warning them of malware on my blog. I dived in and discovered that, indeed, a nasty, obfuscated JavaScript attack had made its way into my site. Although I was disappointed by the lack of clarity about how to fix it, I believe I was able to remove it last night.

Cheap, No-Contract 4G Data: Clear’s Undocumented Daily- and Weekly-Pass Plans

January 23, 2012

Although Clear clearly wants buyers to sign up for monthly service, they also have “secret” on-demand 2-hour, daily, and weekly plans. Here’s how to get online cheap!

HP’s Mighty Stumble

January 19, 2012

HP stumbled mightily in 2011, and it had nothing to do with product or people. Even sales remained strong, though the PC business is changing. HP’s mighty stumble was a crisis of confidence due to a chain of shenanigans at the very top. This culminated with the short reign of Léo Apotheker, leaving HP to reassure the market of its strategy.

Why Should Anyone Take Dell Seriously in Enterprise Storage?

January 16, 2012

For a massive IT company, Dell sure doesn’t get the kind of respect given their competitors. Time and again, I’ll hear the sneers about Dell being little more than a “box shifter” who doesn’t “get” real enterprise IT needs. After a series of acquisitions in storage and networking, Dell is trying to stake a claim as a serious competitor to HP, IBM, Oracle, and the like. But why should anyone take Dell seriously, especially in enterprise storage?

The Case of the Missing Letters: Another Obnoxious Bug in Dragon Dictate

January 16, 2012

Any time OS X corrects your spelling or (more likely) inserts appropriate accent marks, Dictate loses its mind and can no longer correctly enter some random letter. There are two ways to fix this problem (apart from just restarting Dictate all the time).

Virtual Machine Mobility: Of What, and to Where and in What State?

January 16, 2012

Moving cold virtual machine images from system to system, or even across great distances, is one of the main selling points of server virtualization. But it becomes much more difficult to manage movement of virtual machines that are still running, especially outside cluster or across WAN links. When talking about virtual machine mobility, it is important to consider what is being moved, the state it is in, and where it is going.

How to Prepare Your AT&T Phone for Travel Abroad

January 7, 2012

The difference between American and European mobile phone providers are vast, and the modern traveler is likely to run afoul if they are unprepared, running up a surprisingly large bill! Here’s a rundown of my standard techniques to prepare my American mobile phone for travel abroad.

What Is an XQD Card? The New Media for Pro Cameras!

January 6, 2012

The CompactFlash Association announced a new media card format last month, and now Sony and Nikon have introduced the first media and digital cameras, respectively. But what exactly is an XQD memory card? Read on for the details.

Eight Unresolved Questions About FCoE

January 5, 2012

What elements remain unresolved to make FCoE truly world-class? What should the vendors be prioritizing?

When Incandescent Bulbs Are Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Have Incandescent Bulbs

January 4, 2012

Although they are ridiculously inefficient, incandescent lightbulbs seem to have a huge number of fans. Despite the romance of the glowing filament, many governments are moving to ban the use of incandescent light bulbs in many applications. Here in the United States, the federal government intends to encourage the use of more efficient light bulbs but there is no outright ban.

Should Home Users Buy Enterprise Hard Disk Drives?

Iomega Graduates and Goes to Work with the ix12-300r

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Latest Content

How My Blog Became Infected With MW:JS:150 Malware (And How I Fixed It)

Cheap, No-Contract 4G Data: Clear’s Undocumented Daily- and Weekly-Pass Plans

HP’s Mighty Stumble

Why Should Anyone Take Dell Seriously in Enterprise Storage?

The Case of the Missing Letters: Another Obnoxious Bug in Dragon Dictate

Virtual Machine Mobility: Of What, and to Where and in What State?

How to Prepare Your AT&T Phone for Travel Abroad

What Is an XQD Card? The New Media for Pro Cameras!

Eight Unresolved Questions About FCoE

When Incandescent Bulbs Are Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Have Incandescent Bulbs