The Bleeding Edge

It took a while and a call to Dell, but I got the new Sonicwall NSA 3600 registered and the licenses transferred. With all the firewall services running, it was time to take another look at performance. The news is surprisingly good. One desktop can easily use all the download … [Read more...]

The Dell/Sonicwall NSA 3600 arrived. A very serious-looking piece of kit. 1U bay about 20 inches deep. A dozen copper 1 Gb/s Ethernet ports. Four copper 10 Gb/s Ethernet ports. A couple of optical ports. Fan that sounds like a wind tunnel until it realizes that it doesn't need to … [Read more...]

CrashPlan is a cloud backup provider that provides a client app. They have a free, credir-cardless trial program. I downloaded the app and signed up. I picked a directory with files that averaged about 50 MB in size. And started the backup. Then I looked at the … [Read more...]

The CloudFront S3 Browser is an Amazon S3 client. It comes in a free version, which it advertized as not supporting concurrent transfers, and a $30 Pro version that does support them. It doesn't offer the unattended operation of Goodsync, but I tested it anyway. I had two … [Read more...]

Next on my list of cloud storage providers was Google Drive. It's easy to sign up if you already have a Google account. Goodsync supports it. I set up a test backup job in Goodsync. Initially I got an error: It looks like Goodsync is changing the gdocs:// URL header to … [Read more...]