Category: DAS/NAS/SAN

Why the ability to boot from Thunderbolt on a Mac is huge — Apple News, Tips and Reviews

hard drive bay of the Apple Mac Pro
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I hadn’t considered this before, but it is a possibility. I wrote this comment below in the article. This could actually save money.

Chimacintosh Wednesday, June 29 2011

This is a helpful analysis. The rental prices for most macs are too high to be worth it for most companies, so I doubt that will happen. However I do see the benefit of using things like iMacs and Thunderbolt setups, instead of the traditional Mac Pro’s and built-in storage for certain users.

I think the key in this is how reliable those External HD are. If they are more reliable than past RAID’s and external storage, I can see this happening.

via Why the ability to boot from Thunderbolt on a Mac is huge — Apple News, Tips and Reviews.

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Network-attached storage – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The front of the Linksys NSLU2.
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Network-attached storage – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. I have written before about many network attached storage systems that I have worked with and recommend. Now with cloud storage, this is becoming less popular but I believe it still has a place for professionals or anyone with non-replaceable digital assets.

I am not so fond of SAN’s for the home user, they are too complex for the average person. Many NAS systems are combining things formerly found in SAN’s like automatic failover and redundant hardware. That is an encouraging sign that eventually it will be standard.

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Online storage Dolly Drive vs other online services

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Interesting article here titled Dolly Drive 1.2 expands to 2 TB. To give more perspective to those readers I added this comment:

This isn’t a comparison of that service, but it does have some good information. At these prices I don’t see that it will be popular. After all you can buy that kind of storage for a little more money, and it is too expensive for business as well. Perhaps it will do well if it has strong encryption or better security features than DropBox that recently had some security issues.

http://chimac.net/2010/12/22/backblaze-vs-mozy-vs-carbonite-vs-jungledisk-vs-dropbox-vs-crashplan/

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golden oldies of hard drives – StumbleUpon

golden oldies – StumbleUpon. Yes it sounds like it would be very boring, but the writing is fresh and interesting. I had some of these in my earliest computers. Nice to know the back story. Also gives some evidence of why I think Seagate is one of the more reliable hard drives.

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