Saturday, September 8, 2012

Ghetto IT: ESXi 5.0 Virtualization server on a budget AMD laptop

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Here is my weekend ghetto ESXi VM server. A $200 budget AMD laptop. I have to convert a rather large physical server at home so I jury...
Wednesday, August 29, 2012

mini-DisplayPort / Thunderbolt VS HDMI

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I had to shuffle my current desktop;re-arrange monitors and I was reminded of an old subject : displayport/thunderbolt vs HDMI. This subje...
Friday, August 24, 2012

Storage and Hard Drive prices

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Since hard drive prices are still insanely high after the Thai floods, I have resorted to buying cheap external drives. I simply remove the...
Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Samsung 830 SSD USB 3.0 RAID-0 in OSX and Ubuntu 12.04

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Striping two USB sticks was cool but I wanted to try it further with two fast SSDs. As many people know, the Samsung 830s are fast, relia...
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Macbook Pro USB 3.0 RAID ZERO with USB sticks

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What happens when you try to stripe two USB 3.0 sticks together in a RAID 0 on a 2012 Macbook with USB 3.0 support? I decided to find ...
Thursday, August 16, 2012

FreeNAS Mini-ITX AMD E-350 Lian Li PC-Q25 build

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I recently built a FreeNAS  ZFS RAIDZ box for my personal backup archives. I wanted something elegant and low powered with the ability t...
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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Thinkpad X1 Carbon internal

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Looks like the Thinkpad X1 Carbon is going the Apple route. Proprietary SSD and soldered RAM. Battery looks like it is a glued piece as w...
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