Access NTFS Volumes On Your Mac
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Personal, Terabyte home on 06. Aug, 2009 | View Comments
Most Mac switchers still have some Windows NTFS-formatted drives around. Maybe it’s an external USB disk. Or maybe you’re using Boot Camp. Whatever the reason, Mac users often want to access NTFS volumes within OS X. There are two popular ways to accomplish this:
Use the excellent and free NTFS-3G driver
Buy Paragon Software’s Paragon NTFS
OS X Custom Drive Icons 2: Boot Camp and NTFS
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Virtual Storage on 03. Sep, 2008 | View Comments
In my last post, I discussed the simple but confusing steps required to add custom icons to Mac OS X drives. I mentioned that there were some tricks to getting custom icons on some drives, however, including Boot Camp and NTFS disks. This week, I’ll show how to customize these as well.
There are two core [...]
3PAR’s Thin Un-Provisioning is Slightly Less Bad
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Virtual Storage on 02. Sep, 2008 | View Comments
3PAR just introduced their third-generation storage hardware, bringing a novel feature to the world of thin provisioning: Hardware-assisted “zero-detection” to convert standard storage to thin provisioning. Although only certain special-case users will benefit from this technology, it’s nice to see someone working on one of the pitfalls of the technology – that it’s really [...]
Windows Server 2008 Changes Storage
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Personal, Terabyte home on 31. Jul, 2008 | View Comments
Although it’s been available for a while now, Windows Server 2008’s storage changes aren’t widely reported. TechTarget’s Dave Raffo wrote a piece about it today, Windows Server 2008’s hidden storage features, including some quotes from me, but it’s still less than clear.
So let me sum up:
Server Message Block (SMB) 2.0 is probably the biggest news. Microsoft [...]
Storage MVP: I Feel Great!
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Personal on 02. Jul, 2008 | View Comments
I just got an email from Microsoft – they’ve given me the MVP award for the area of File System Storage! Great news – so how do I feel? Not quite as good as the “Steve” in this video, but pretty good…
So what does this mean? Am I now a shill, beholden forever to Redmond? [...]
