School of Hard (Drive) Knocks – Part 2
At the beginning of the month I wrote about my Windows Home Server hard drive problems and at the time I was waiting for WHS to finish removing the bad drive from its storage pool. When I posted the article I was letting Windows Home Server run through the drive removal process while I slept. [...]
School of Hard (Drive) Knocks
One of the problems with having a Windows Home Server with 12 hard drives is that hard drives do fail and there’s a dozen chances for that to happen. Add to that the 18TB of data those drives can hold and things are further complicated. The odds are not in my favor and it’s only [...]
1.5TB Drives at 1TB Drive Prices
I noticed that the Seagate 1.5TB Barracuda drives have hit NewEgg and are priced at $190 with free shipping. That’s less than 13¢/GB. The 1TB Seagate drive is priced at $140 which is 14¢/GB making the new 1.5TB drives a better per gigabyte value. I haven’t bought one but I as shocked to see the [...]
The OS Quest Trail Log #24: Hardware and Software Updates Edition
Another busy week on the OS Quest but a lot of it felt like running in place due to the continued onslaught of software updates. The big updates, at least based on size and time, were OS X 10.5.2 and the follow-up Leopard Graphics Update. There were two other big updates, based on the software [...]
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