Drobo Adding 4K Drive Support – What About Everyone Else?
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Enterprise storage, Terabyte home on 28. Jan, 2010 | View Comments
Drobo is adding support for 4K-sector “Advanced Format” drives across their product line, but others do not seem as responsive.
EMC Makes Iomega Relevant Again
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Terabyte home, Virtual Storage on 07. Jan, 2009 | View Comments
Pity poor old Iomega. The company responsible for hot products like the Zip drive and coulda-beens like the Clik drive was stumbling in the early part of this decade, unable to distinguish itself from all of the other providers of commodity external storage devices for consumers. Although the company had built the Zip into a [...]
The Future of Home Storage
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Computer history, Terabyte home on 12. Oct, 2008 | View Comments
Consumers demand friendly, flexible solutions. They don’t want to fuss with their media, and they don’t want simple shared storage. They want integration with multiple devices and flexibility to access their content on any device.
Making the Switch to Digital Music at Home
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Personal, Terabyte home on 27. Jul, 2007 | View Comments
After sticking staunchly to real CDs for home listening, I finally succumbed and expanded my terabyte house into the digital audio server domain. In the end, it was audiophile Mark Schlack from TechTarget who won me over – if digital audio is good enough for him, then it ought to be good enough for [...]
Where is Linux in Storage?
Posted by Stephen in Computer history, Enterprise storage, Everything on 20. Jul, 2007 | View Comments
Marc Farley’s challenge of listing all the devices on our home networks got me thinking –I’ve got an awful lot of Linux devices, but all of them are infrastructure rather than interactive PCs. Of the 10 devices currently attached my home network, four are Linux based (two TiVos, a Linksys router, and Linksys NAS), three [...]
These computers are not junk!
Posted by Stephen in Computer history, Everything, Terabyte home on 21. Jun, 2007 | View Comments
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 (yeah [...]
