To my surprise and pleasure, the Dell workstation came with a  10 GbE motherboard port. I've been using 10 GbE for about 5 years now in the server room, using mostly fiber connections, but, in recent years, some copper ones. I've bought workstations with it, but never used that … [Read more...]

In the preceding post, I observed a gradual, intermittent failure of an OWC disk array. I suspected the OWC box, but it could have been one of the 18TB Toshiba disks, so I popped them out of the box and installed them in an OWC dock. I copied over 8 TB of data to each … [Read more...]

In my new, much smaller office, I needed a new, somewhat smaller workstation. I had been using a Lenovo P16 laptop with 128 GB of RAM, and, while it served me well for most things, it couldn't handle the larger photographic and Matlab tasks very well. For the last decade or more, … [Read more...]

I ordered a 32 TB Elite Pro U.2 SSD Thunderbolt 4 array from Other World Computing a couple of weeks ago, with the idea of using it to transfer files in bulk between computers located at different sites. I sent it back when I found out that it wouldn't connect to any computer … [Read more...]

This site is hosted by Media Temple. I've used them for more than a decade, and they've been generally good. They used to have a trouble ticket support system which worked with a web browser and email. It wasn't a real time service, and it sometimes took them 24 hours to respond, … [Read more...]