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Is 8.75TB too much storage ?

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First of all, this little story is made of fail, however I’m happy with the outcome 🙂 First of all, let me take you back a couple of years. As myself and C tend to have a lot of shared content, eg Movies, Music, Photos, we used to use the good old shared folders on our Windows PC’s. The downside of this was if a machine was off, you had no access to the shared folder !. So I went with plan B, build a cheap server out of old parts I had kicking around, and have all our content … Continue reading Is 8.75TB too much storage ?

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First Impressions: Windows 7 Beta

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Well, I have a spare machine, so thought I’d download the Vista 7 Beta, and see what’s in store for windows users. Currently I’ve spent only an hour or so using it, however I thought I’d give my first impressions. It’s quick, it’s stable and so far no crashing. The UI is improved, however seems more and more like Mac OS The below are just first impressions, and the resolution is possible, however not clear. Currently don’t like to the fact that that you can’t change the control panel to classic mode. There is no longer a quick launch toolbar … Continue reading First Impressions: Windows 7 Beta

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Acer Aspire Easystore 2TB NAS drive

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I’ve added to my toy collection, I’ve bought (as the title would suggest) a new NAS Drive. I’ve has for the pass couple of years a 500Gb Western Digital MyBookWorld, which as ….well ok, well, slow, unstable, and over heats all the time. I had quite a manual process to back this up too, I had to keep a machine on all the time, to run a scheduled task, to sync all the contents on the NAS drive to an external 500Gb hard drive, this was effective, however kind of overkill for a simple backup solution. btw, the reason I’m … Continue reading Acer Aspire Easystore 2TB NAS drive