Ian Fleming used to have James Bond say, "Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, but three times is enemy action." I had my third Seagate Barracuda 3TB drive fail in a little over two years. Then, as the RAID was rebuilding, I had a fourth Barracuda bite its last … [Read more...]
Amazon Cloud — a new backup possibility
This morning, Amazon announced unlimited photo storage for Prime members. Seems like too good to be true. What's the catch? I thought I'd give it a try. There's a Windows app you can download. I did. First thing I did was try to copy a big directory to the cloud. That … [Read more...]
Undone by a spell checker?
On Cnet today: … [Read more...]
More on firewall performance
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...]
Upload performance with the new firewall
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...]
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