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The new must-have gadget: Flash laptops

The entire world is now slowly shifting to Flash-based storage in mobile devices. The latest trend is to get rid of harddisks in your laptop - and you will have longer battery life, faster shutdown/reboot, better shock-resistance. Not to mention that Read More...
Posted Friday, October 13, 2006 1:31 PM by AdiOltean | 15 Comments

12-disk SATA storage box for less than a grand

ExtremeTech has a review of the Norco DS-1220 eSATA storage box, which can accomodate up to 12 SATA disks. The price is pretty low (on Newegg.com it is $840 without disks). I computed a small table that shows how much it will cost for a simple JBOD configuration. Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 21, 2006 4:34 PM by AdiOltean | 4 Comments
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New hard drive price war coming

Seagate, Hitachi and Samsung will compete for more price cuts for harddisks in the near future. The toughest competition seems to be on the low-end, 80 GB harddisk models. So, what do you think the new non-rebate price would be for, say, 160 GB drives? Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 10, 2006 12:35 PM by AdiOltean | 5 Comments

Why Flash memory is good for your computer

Simply put, flash memory will enable a revolution in improving computer performance in daily utilization scenarios. Your computer will boot up faster. It will launch applications significantly faster. (Hey, it will shutdown faster as well.) The problem Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 05, 2006 2:17 AM by AdiOltean | 6 Comments

How to run Defrag on a scheduled basis

On Windows XP, it's simple. Just run this command and you are done: schtasks /create /TN defrag /RU "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM" /SC weekly /TR "defrag %systemdrive%" Read More...
Posted Friday, April 07, 2006 12:18 AM by AdiOltean | 5 Comments

Using NTBackup to achieve P2V

I always thought about writing a post about physical-to-virtual migration strategies in combination with VSS, but I never got to it. So it's not surprising that others started to uncover this trail :-) One particular technique in this area is described Read More...
Posted Friday, January 20, 2006 1:48 AM by AdiOltean | 4 Comments

Perpendicular storage arrives on laptops

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060116/ap_on_hi_te/seagate_drives Seagate's new drive, the Momentus 5400.3, was being shipped as of Monday, the Scotts Valley, Calif.-based company said. The shift to perpendicular recording allows it to bump up the maximum Read More...
Posted Monday, January 16, 2006 7:45 AM by AdiOltean | 2 Comments
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Windows Backup - highlighted as one of the main Vista features!

Whoohoo! Windows backup is there. Proeminently: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/features/default.aspx#wvC2 They also mention the Shadow Copy (aka Previous Versions). This is a standard feature now in Windows Server 2003, which is invaluable for Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 05, 2006 12:20 PM by AdiOltean | 2 Comments

How to do atomic writes in a file

Let's assume that you want is to write some simple code that writes to a text file. A few assumptions: 1) You need avoid corruptions of any kind. 2) Either all of your writes have to make it to the disk, or none of them. 3) The file is updated serially Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 28, 2005 2:51 PM by AdiOltean | 3 Comments

Holographic storage for everyone

Maxell hints that it will ship 300 GB optical media next year, in September 2006 to be more exact. The bandwidth is decent too: 160 Mbps. The technology behind all this? Holographic storage: Holographic recording technology uses intersecting signal and Read More...
Posted Friday, November 25, 2005 11:09 PM by AdiOltean | 0 Comments
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Check the reality: What most gamers use as their gaming PC?

I just got prompted today for a survey on what most gamers use as their gaming PC. Very interesting results: http://www.steampowered.com/status/survey.html A few notes: 1) Most peope are still in the ATI 9600/9800 ballpark. Hmmm... now this is interesting. Read More...
Posted Friday, November 04, 2005 9:33 AM by AdiOltean | 4 Comments

DOSDEV.EXE - a misterious tool

Once in a while, you might encounter this tool in some Microsoft-provided SDKs, or Resource Kits, for example in the Windows Resource Kit, the Exchange Report Toolkit, and others. But this tool never came with any relevant documentation. It just displays Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 04, 2005 6:51 PM by AdiOltean | 3 Comments

100 GB in your cell phone?

Using nanotechnology, Rusell Cowburn and other researchers developed a new 3D architecture for memory chips. This latest research, however, has the potential to develop a chip that combines the storage capability of a hard drive with the low cost of memory Read More...
Posted Monday, September 12, 2005 7:41 PM by AdiOltean | 0 Comments

How to query the list of disks/partitions for a certain volume (and viceversa)

A good comment in one of my previous posts : >>> Any idea how to get a Volume Name ( \\?\Vol{GUID }) or drive letter for a given disk XX + partition XX? i.e. If I have a partition table for DiskDrive0 I need to find out what volume/drive letter Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 04, 2005 9:13 PM by AdiOltean | 2 Comments

NTFS curiosities (Part I): Short file names

Aaron Stebner noted that it is possible to configure Windows to always use short file names. This is a legacy feature left over from the Windows 95 land. Sometimes, you just have to run some old MS-DOS applications. These apps will get confused about Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 27, 2005 9:42 PM by AdiOltean | 7 Comments
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