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I recently purchased a Thecus N7700 NAS box with 7 x 2TB drives.... and incase anyone else is doing the same - here are my initial thoughts on the product... I created one RAID6 volume using XFS, giving me just under 10TB of storage First up - the interface after upgrading to latest firmware in…
Continue readingSick of crappy over-priced storage solutions? As am i... did a search and stumbled on this... http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/ i dont need quite THAT much storage... but that is cool...
Continue readingPC Pro in the UK has a good article on the dodginess of the PC sales industry - its not really anything new, most people in IT know never to use a larger store for purchasing PC gear, but its still good to see the level of dodginess documented. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/features/351958/the-high-street-rip-off
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