Poor quality of Seagate disks is a well-know issue for people using spinning disk storage at home. I hear their enterprise HDDs aren’t bad, but that isn’t what we purchase.
My sample size is very small. From 1990 – 2005 I went out of my way to purchase Seagate HDDs. They lasted for ...
I’d like to apologize to people using Amazon EC2 to visit this blog. Sadly, a few hundred of your peers decided to be abusive, so I was forced to block most of EC2 subnets from access.
Having hundreds of IPs in the EC2 IP range crawling this site constantly just cannot be allowed. It isn̵...
Saw this over at Schneier’s Security site.
How your phone tracks your every move
His phone was leaving traces about 3x an hour and it wasn’t just GPS coordinates.
It is an ABC (Australian) report. They asked normal people to look at some metadata to figure out what they could know about ...
I like rdiff-backup. It isn’t perfect, but for my needs, it fits. I’ve written about it, mostly in abstract ways, over the years. Seemed like time to show a non-trivial example. Below is the command used to backup a major storage server here....
Note to self, check out these storage options.
SnapRAID
unRAID
FlexRAID
disParity
ZFS
BTRFS
Nexenta
You know, in your free time....
When ever a new year arrives, it is time to do some digital cleanup. Going through old files, new files, old emails, new emails, archiving important things and deleting as much as possible. Heck, if I didn’t respond to that email yet, it probably wasn’t all that important.
Anyway, here&...
GPT or MBR? Which do you use for partitioning and why?
I haven’t decided yet. None of my HDDs are over 2TB, so GPT is not forced, but the limitations of MBR disk partitions is a real concern.
This article Make the most of large drives with GPT and Linux has me rethinking my plans to stay with ...
This morning I was thinking about how long hard drives should be used. Seems that the disks spinning 24/7/365 in an array here were purchased in 2006, just under 6 yrs ago. The drives themselves have never caused any issues, though a loose SATA cable was problematic the first 12 months or so. Since...
This new article is about KVM and disk I/O performance based on this other article. It is for a smaller shop, not an enterprise with SAN storage.
I implemented one of the suggestions on my Windows7 Media Center virtual machine and saw about a 100% disk I/O throughput improvement even after already ...
Don’t you just love reading about governments making stupid assumptions about people? No? Me neither.
It seems many people may be terrorists by doing things that are
perfectly legal
required due to other stupid government laws
necessary to ensure privacy
Here’s the news article to ...
Thought we’d get off the software and virtualization track a little with this post. I hope you don’t mind.
Below is a photo of the rack setup for my home-office here. Notice that the rack is a steel rack on wheels, like you may see at a bakery or in restaurant storage areas. There are 5 ...
Read an article over at LH earlier this week that convinced me to buy some more backup storage before the price hikes rippled through the external storage market like they already had for the internal HDD market. What? you ask? The price for internal drives has change from $65 to $129 for a slow 1....
The Checklist
Stable / Works Every Time
Automatic
Different Storage Media
Fast
Efficient
Secure
Versioned
Offsite / Remote
Restore Tested
When you are looking for a total backup solution, those are the things you want from it....
