Recent content by KE=MV2

I have to admit I expected the opposite. With the constantly increasing capacity of HDDs, using nearline drives as backup media in an array is fast, and far less costly than in years prior.

All my computers have had SSDs for the system drive since they first came out. However, when I upgraded my storage array late last year, I stayed with enterprise HDDs. The speed is excellent, and the cost was less than half of what SSDs would have been. I foresee HDDs still ruling the bulk...

Shoving Santa and Rudolph in a mask is pretty messed up. Not to mention it's 2022... Jeez...

I just finished upgrading all the drives in my RAID array, and I looked at replacing them with SSDs. It would have cost me more than double to go with SSDs. The issue is the cost for the capacity. Until SSDs reach or get very to close to cost parity with HDDs, they simply won't make sense for...

In other words... Under Brandon the economy, inflation, (i.e. people's available income), and everything else just sucks. Once Brandon is gone in 2024, we can begin to recover, and hopefully people & companies can afford to update their equipment.

Measuring CO2 is just dumb. We all breath in oxygen and breath out CO2. It 's part of the natural life cycle. The materials used, manufacturing waste created, energy used, and the ability to recycle are the factors that really matter. I would have liked to see more on that data. My guess would...

I own and use an IronKey which I bought long before the company was sold to Kingston. It uses SLC, has a metal epoxy filled enclosure so there can be no direct chip access and makes it very durable from shocks, a built in password manager, and it (had) the ability to back up your passwords to a...