Joerg Moellenkamp’s post explaining CacheFS has me excited:
Long ago, admins didn’t want to manage dozens of operating system installations. Instead of this they wanted to store all this data on a central fileserver (you know, the network is the computer). Thus netbooting Solaris and SunOS was invented. But there was a problem: All the users [...]

Posted October 1, 2008 by Casey
Categories: Technology. Tags: CacheFS, filesystems, ideas, mac os X, solaris, Space Ship, SpaceShip, storage, Time Capsule. 2 Comments.

I’m not sure who Robin Harris is, but he’s mighty sure home RAID won’t fly. He’s just so certain that consumers are stupider than him and that vendors’ imaginations are as limited as his. And if Harris was right, we’d probably still be using 8088 microprocessors and getting by on less than a megabyte of [...]

Posted August 27, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: Data Robotics, disk, disks, Drobo, easy, hard drives, raid, storage. 3 Comments.

Sure, we can get a MacBook Air with 64GB solid state disk (SSD), but what about upgrading a MacBook Pro? Ryan Block put one in his MBP and got a 20 second startup. Ridata released a 128GB 2.5“ SATA SSD in January that looks compatible with my MacBook Pro. Newegg has it for under $500. [...]

Posted August 26, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches, Technology. Tags: apple, MacBook Pro, solid state disk, solid state storage, SSD, st, storage, upgrade. One Comment.

Apple’s Time Capsule is great. Seriously. When has backup been easier? But I need more.
The MacBook Air’s small storage highlights a problem I’ve been suffering for some time: there’s never enough storage. The slower processor and limited RAM expansion are sufferable, but storage isn’t. The 120GB drive in my MacBook Pro now is stuffed with [...]

Posted January 29, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: apple, elastic storage, ideas, mac, MacBook Air, Space Ship, storage. 14 Comments.