If you create a lot of online data, or need a home Enterprise IT box, iXSystems is a great way to do that for a lower price. The software is open-source, so you can use your own hardware. But they do have hardware solutions if you want an out-of-box setup. FreeNAS Mini For the SMB, […]
If you’re looking for a rugged, all-terrain portable hard drive, then G-Technology has just what you desire in the ArmorATD. It’s an outdoor drive for your outdoor lifestyle. Filmmakers, photographers, and all professions where you have to be out in the elements will get use out of this storage device. What is the ArmorATD In […]
LaCie has updated their 2big dock for desktop creators. This device can hold up to 20TB in a RAID or Mirror format. Compact Flash, SD, USB-A, Dual USB-C (TB3 rated), and Display Port connections so you can dock devices for file transfer, viewing, and more. If you need to go backwards compatible with Thunderbolt 2, […]
What is so impressive is how LaCie has one of the most noticeable hard drives our there and they’ve been making it for over 10 years. Now, the Rugged Mini is getting a new upgrade to the fast transfer USB-C Thunderbolt 3. Along with a desktop HD model in the D2, you will be able […]
Its not going to be a Taylor, Martin, Atkins, or Guild acoustic guitar but it is your own. Instructables.com is a website to learn how to do things like upscale an old hard drive into a USB flashdrive or make furniture out of old road signs. Today we found out about an effort to make […]
This year, I thought I would do some searching and find you some great deals that will help you with your Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Green Tuesday shopping. These are all technology-related items. If you want weird geeky items, check out the Dorkazine Black Friday deals. If you want Podcast items, check out How […]
While at CES, we stopped and talked with Kingston. They have been a big part of computer memory for many years – I remember when I bought my first Megabyte of RAM (at $40 a stick!). It only makes sense they would be expanding to SSD technology. We saw them at Digital Experience, and they […]
Larry O’Connor fo Other World Computing (OWC) joins Andy on the TPN Live CES coverage. OWC has Solid State Drives (SSD) for computers. We interviewed OWC with Todd and talked about performance. They stopped by and we had some free time, so Larry talked about replacing your existing hard drive with a OWC SSD. Based […]
Todd was walking through the Toshiba booth when they saw this shake test. Basically the station was shaking a SSD and HDD at the same time. The idea was to show how data works when the hard drive moves. Moreover, how the SSD drive performs better in this situation. If you have a notebook with […]
While at Dell OEM day, we got to see Scott Hanson’s new Dell Inspiron Duo notebook / tablet. A pretty nice idea – flip the screen and turn the notebook into a touchscreen device. But the question is if it’s a functional device. The machine we looked at had a ATOM Duo 1.4 GHz N550 […]
Read Part One. Read Part Two, At the end of Part Two, we had finished preparing the hard drive. Now it’s time to select packages for installation. This is much simpler than it sounds. The selection consists of choosing to install the “base” package or the “base” and “base-devel” (base plus some developer tools) packages. […]
I have wanted to play with Arch Linux for some time, but my test computer is currently non compos harddrive (I took the HDD out to help someone else test a different computer). Using Virtual Box, I have been able to do so. Arch is a “build-it-your-way” Linux distribution. The initial install provides a text […]
It’s been a while since I did a Ramblings. Here we go… Last night I went to record some of July’s Day in Tech History episodes. The audio was lagging – when I stopped processing, it would sit and think. I was able to save the recording, but it took a good 5 minutes to […]
As an IT administrator in a previous life, I know that keeping data safe is key #1. It would have been nice to have this product on all the notebooks in the office. Especially one instance where the employee found a legal way around keeping their machine with all of our data on it. LoJack […]
Back in the Windows NT days, you would get a basic copy of this software to defragment the drive. I remember using it all the time to clean up someone’s system. After making all adjustments, people would be amazed how much better the computer ran. We forget nowadays that machines still need to be defragmented […]