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Access NTFS Volumes On Your Mac

August 6, 2009 By Stephen 1 Comment

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 I've been using the NTFS-3G … [Read more...] about Access NTFS Volumes On Your Mac

Compression, Encryption, Deduplication, and Replication: Strange Bedfellows

February 5, 2009 By Stephen 14 Comments

One of the great ironies of storage technology is the inverse relationship between efficiency and security: Adding performance or reducing storage requirements almost always results in reducing the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of a system. Many of the advances in capacity utilization put into production over the last few years rely on deduplication of data. … [Read more...] about Compression, Encryption, Deduplication, and Replication: Strange Bedfellows

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