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Hard Disk Compatible with Google?

Markus Renschler sent this in: “We bought a new external hard disk (WD MyBook). What I was completely fascinated by is the fact it’s not only compatible with Vista, XP, MacOS and USB2.0, but, according to the package, with Google as well.”

Google Spins Out Hard Disk Paper

If you're a hardcore hardware geek, then the work compiled in the 13-page paper by some Google engineers on the failure patterns of disk drives will be like a belated Valentine from the little red-headed girl.

Invalidating the Linux Buffer Cache

When you write data, it doesn't necessarily get written to disk right then. The kernel maintains caches of many things, and disk data is something where a lot of work is done to keep everything fast and efficient.

Maintenance Tools for Mac OS X

There are a number of Mac OS maintenance applications that promise to help you with various tasks. We'll take a quick look at a few of them here.

How Much Space Do You Need With Your Hosting Account?

Web hosting is an extremely competitive field and most web hosts will offer some rather large amounts of space in an effort to sell you on their services.

Controlling Disk Space w/ Symbolic Links

I've covered this in other articles here, but when I went searching for something to point a customer at I had a little trouble finding it, so we'll do it here:

Was Dick Egan Right?

I remember him telling me two things - first, there was no need for tape, that everything would be disk.

A List of Amazon S3 Backup Tools

In an effort to replace my home backup server with Amazon's S3, I've been collecting a list of Amazon S3 compatible backup tools to look at.

Crafty Marketing

Hitachi, parent of HDS (who I love - though they have their own marketing challenges from time to time), just announced an "enterprise" caliber 500GB SATA disk drive.

Tree Maps of Disk Space

GrandPerspective and Disk Inventory X are two free Mac OS X apps that give graphical views of where your disk space is being used.