I was in Houston, TX for HP Gen8 Tech Day and got to sit down with a few of the bloggers and HP Enterprise Gen8 team to talk about the advantages of upgrading to a Gen8 system. We set up a panel, which included: Tim Golden – CTO of ISS americas Brandon Fears – Product […]
In the inaugural podcast of HP TechCast, Calvin Zito talks with: Ray Lucchesi – Silverton Consulting Howard Marks – Deep storage test lab Calvin Zito – HP Storage Guy Rick Vanover – IT Pro Blogger at Rickatron They talk about the Storage Networking World (SNW) in Dallas, TX. The group discusses the changing storage area, how hard […]
If you have a USB drive, you might also have data on the drive. However, just like hard drives, USB Thumb drives also can stop working. You could lose all your data in an instant. But what if you could save your flash drive to the cloud? That is the idea behind my-Ditto Key. You register […]
In the next year, we’ll start seeing Thunderbolt devices enter the market. Thunderbolt – previously called “Light Peak” technology – brings a faster connection to our devices like hard drives, peripherals and more. That is why we were excited to see Mike Mihalik from LaCie as he showed off the new Thunderbolt-connected hard drives for the Apple […]
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 […]
USB 3.0 hard drives and other devices are coming out. LaCie is no different. Philip talked about the latest USB 3.0 devices from LaCie; the new high-speed FastKey USB 3.0 SSD memory stick. This device comes in 30GB, 60GB and 120GB sizes. The prices start from $149, with the 120 GB being $474. It’s amazing what we can […]
Grant Dahlke joined Todd at the TPN Live CES coverage. Other World Computing introduced the Sandforce processor-based high capacity, high-performance SSD (solid state drive). These drives are up to three times larger and up to 22% faster. They also have a line of drives for older IDE and ATA machines, which enables much better performance […]
Last week of resurfacing. I got a little bit of a sunburn this weekend. Talking about retooling the mailing lists. How I just booked Taylor Hicks for a night in Wisconsin and set up a new ticketing system. 2nd Summer of Podcasts contest Had some work done, site was down, but now back up. New […]
At first this looked like another IPTV box. But as Todd Cochrane started talking to Chris Zagg, we found out the ZAGGbox was a lot more than that. It is a media box with a 1TB hard drive. However, it’s also a component controller. If you have a satellite, you connect it through the box and […]
I just bought my first case of 16 oz bottles of Mountain Dew. All I can think about is “10 minutes fueling Geekazine, forever in a landfill”. I need to figure out something to do with these bottles so they don’t end up there. My mom used to take the 2 liter bottles, cut them […]
The best part is this is the last snow of the season and hopefully it won’t be as bad as they say. Just wet slush. Just a small annoyance, then warm weather. Now on to some cool stuff. I stopped by SWAP – Surpluss with a Purpose the other day. Basically, it’s a shop that […]
This is where experienced Windows users can find themselves on foreign territory. The phrases “C drive” or “harddisk 0” mean nothing to Linux. Linux can read and write to Windows file systems (FAT, FAT32, and NTFS) but cannot run on them. Accordingly, the hard disk must be set up in a way that Linux understands. […]