Maxtor Fusion Network Storage

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December 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment

The explosive nature of digital media has pushed our storage to the limits. As such, we are becoming more and more dependent on safeguarding and sharing this digital content. And hence, the desire to do this blog. When it comes to easily accesssing and sharing content, storage mediums haven’t been very helpful. […]

Iomega Never Down Ships with eSata Drives

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December 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Nestled into the behemoth drive package details is a nice, new feature.  Today, Iomega announced that it will start shipping what it calls “Never Down.”

Sentry Safe Fire and Water Proof Hard Drive

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December 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Well, I was pleasantly surprised to see a company come up with this kind of idea. Sentry Safe has come up with a fire and water proof housing for the Maxtor One Touch drive. The product is an all in one package. You don’t have to add the Maxtor drive after the […]

Look How Far Storage Has Come

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December 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Younger folks take data storage mediums for granted.  But not us “old codgers.”  Take, for instance IBM’s first hard drive - the amazing IBM 350.  I’ll let IBM tell the story.

MySql Innodb Recovery Kit

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December 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Just a quick note to point you to this interesting new project release.  It’s an Innodb MySQL recovery toolkit.  Here are the procedures, via the howto:

Split your tablespace to pages with page_parser
Find your index_id values of a primary indexes for your pages.
Take one page from your most valuable table directory.
Create table definition for this table […]

Software RAID Versus Hardware RAID

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December 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Here is the typical scenario.  A small business is looking to provide itself with a bit of redundancy on its server.  Unlike a bigger business, the small business doesn’t have a ton of extra cash laying around.  And so, they are trying to figure out if they should go with either a software RAID arrangement […]