Tag Archives: HDD

It’s a Geek Life! HDD Watch Review

Posted on 12th July 2016 by Alex Galbraith | Permalink Comments Off on It’s a Geek Life! HDD Watch Review

So, why an HDD watch review on a tech blog? Well, I’m not a “watch guy”, meaning I don’t have a collection of 50 varying and expensive watches, [..]

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You had me at Tiered Non-Volatile Memory!

Posted on 21st March 2016 by Alex Galbraith | Permalink Comments Off on You had me at Tiered Non-Volatile Memory!

Memory isn’t cheap! Despite the falling costs and increasing sizes of DRAM DIMMS, it’s still damned expensive compared to most non-volatile media at a price per GB. What’s [..]

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Secondary can be just as important as Primary

Posted on 14th March 2016 by Alex Galbraith | Permalink Comments Off on Secondary can be just as important as Primary

There can be little doubt these days, that the future of the storage industry for primary transactional workloads is All Flash. Finito, that ship has sailed, the door [..]

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My Synology DSM Blue LED issue was actually just a failed drive!

Posted on 24th August 2014 by Alex Galbraith | Permalink Comments Off on My Synology DSM Blue LED issue was actually just a failed drive!

This weekend I spent several hours trying to resolve an issue with my Synology DS413j which I use for backing up my other two Synology hosts (DS412+). I [..]

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