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Archive for March 6th, 2007

Why two disks may not be better than one

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

Well, not the disks themselves. Actually, I get kinda giddy thinking about 1TB 3.5″ SATA drives, but that’s beside the point. With the obvious goal of “bigger better faster more”, many consumer storage vendors are trotting out two-disk RAID0 disks, like Oliver’s IOmega StorCenter. They’re pushed as centralized storage for pictures, video, music, and so […]

Today in Tech; 3/6

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

Okay, I’m stealing this from the old MSN blog, but bite me. It’s a good post topic. I’ll see how long I can keep this up.

VMWare does virtualization on USB. Since Microsoft is upping the ubiquitous factor on virtualization, VMWare is throwing its own spin on that. They’ve introduced a public beta of ACE 2 […]

And the Search for Reliable Storage Continues…

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

Unbelievable. I may have to re-evaluate how we do reviews over at InfoWorld. I originally reviewed the Iomega StorCenter and the Western-Digital NetCenter next to each other. During the two weeks when I was reviewing them, everything worked hunky-dory. I decided to do the long-term with Iomega because they had that two-disk striping layer of […]