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0 WD Red for storage

Published on 10^th July 2012 by Jon Scaife in Storage.

According to an article on Anandtech, WD have released a new range of HDDs optimised for NAS boxes (and presumably good for use with hardware RAID cards too). This have been optimised for streaming, are close in performance to the black series, and also quite economical on power.

0 Microsoft Storage Spaces: Virtual RAID for Windows 8?

Published on 6^th January 2012 by Jon Scaife in Storage. Updated 17^th January 2012.

Storage Spaces is a new feature coming with Windows 8 which sounds like it will be an ideal software RAID solution for home media servers.

0 Planning a new networked home media setup

Published on 16^th October 2011 by Jon Scaife in Media PC Hardware, Misc Media Software, Storage. Updated 5^th June 2012.

In the coming months I will be buying a new property, and to go with my new home, I’ve been reading up lots on how I might integrate a new home media setup. In recent months several exciting new options have become available, which finally makes the sort of setup I have always desired a… Read more »

0 Disk Speeds

Published on 15^th March 2011 by Jon Scaife in Storage. Updated 3^rd October 2011.

Since a post about a year ago where I compared the speed of several flash drives (for speeding up Media Browser) I’ve been keeping a track of the speed of various drives / devices. As I’ll soon be obtaining quite a few new drives it seemed a good time to organise all the benchmarks and… Read more »

1 Hardware RAID and consumer HDD problems

Published on 20^th October 2010 by Jon Scaife in Storage. Updated 18^th September 2012.

A couple of years ago I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to purchase a second hand hardware raid 5 card (an Areca 1220) for a very low price. Since then I have used the card along with several sets of drives (originally 300gig, then 750gig and currently 1Tb) in a dedicated server PC… Read more »

0 Speeding up Media Browser

Published on 4^th January 2010 by Jon Scaife in Media Browser, Storage. Updated 24^th January 2012.

An article on Hack7MC caught my eye a couple of months ago, but I have only just got around to following up on it. The idea is to speed up the Media Browser plugin for Media Center by moving its library to a Cheap USB Flash drive, which hopefully offers much better performance than normal… Read more »

0 Speed up SSDs, especially in netbooks

Published on 11^th October 2009 by Jon Scaife in Storage. Updated 11^th September 2012.

I recently upgraded the SSD in an Asus eeePC 901, and whilst the size and performance were both better, the performance upgrade still wasn’t on par with even a 5+ year old laptop HDD. The problem with most SSDs, especially the cheaper ones, is that they usually have very poor write performance with small files.… Read more »

0 Upgrading the SSD in an eeePC 901

Published on 8^th October 2009 by Jon Scaife in Storage. Updated 5^th October 2011.

I’ve recently been asked to upgrade the SSD drive in an Asus eeePC 901. Rather than write about it in detail here I’ll just say that the operation was painless and a great success, mostly thanks to the excellent guide provided at BitTech I replaced the default 4gig SSD (leaving the 16gig one intact) with… Read more »