Storage hardware
Nerd News Today; 4/19
Thursday, April 19th, 2007Sneak peek at Silverlight. Just in case you’re into keynote demos, this is a link to the demo that Microsoft gave at NAB 2007 showing early screens and animations done with its new Silverlight Flash competitor. (Source: PC World)
Google redoes Froogle. Apparently, it wasn’t doing that well–not sure why, it was definitely my favorite site […]
Review of Iomega’s New NAS
Monday, March 12th, 2007Just finished this mini-review of Iomega’s new StorCenter 150d. Looks like the bigger 200d, but is meant for smaller companies. You can get it setup with 1TB or even 2TB, but where the 200d is run by the more expensive Windows Storage Server, the 150d uses a Linux/Web interface that’s way cheaper yet still goes […]
Why two disks may not be better than one
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007Well, 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 […]
And the Search for Reliable Storage Continues…
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007Unbelievable. 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 […]
The Danger of Shared Disk Complacency
Sunday, March 4th, 2007I did a review of Iomega’s 500GB StorCenter network hard disk for InfoWorld a while back. Good review for a typical 3-week review period. Nice solid case, two 500GB hard disks in RAID 0, 10/100 Ethernet and a USB out for printer sharing, an additional hard disk or some kind of other backup device. I […]