New Desk Post from my other blog
On my personal blog I've just posted about chaining my home office setup. Some may find it useful from a productivity standpoint. Check it out at
Drive Prices Should Not Dictate Backups
Have you looked at hard drive prices lately? If you have not been in the market for a few months, you will get a nasty surprise when going to purchase one. In many cases drive prices have doubled from six months ago. The main reason for this is that the worst flooding in decades hit Thailand where most of the worlds drive manufacturers have their factories. Western Digital announced that 75% of production was affected. …
3TB drives, not as simple as you think.
3TB drives are now starting to appear at attractive price points for consumers and small ; However there are some issues that may be faced when putting these drives into older systems. The issue is that some older PC BIOS's and some operating systems (most notably Windows) may not be able to address the entire 3TB of space in the ; Without going into a lesson in memory address issues, (I see your eyes glazing…