Tag Archives: hardware

Keep Data Forever

Posted on August 25, 2011 by way0utwest

How long do you expect to keep a piece of data in any of your databases? Chances are if you’re like me, you rarely think about it and expect that you need to store all the data perpetually. As long … Continue reading →

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Going Big with SSDs

Posted on August 16, 2011 by way0utwest

I found a report recently that eBay had implemented 100TB of SSD storage from Nimbus Data for their virtual infrastructure. That’s a huge amount of very fast storage, which definitely helps explain how the eBay auctions seem to run so quickly. Apparently eBay isn’t … Continue reading →

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Hardware Hacking

Posted on August 8, 2011 by way0utwest

One of the reasons that we have so many gadgets at low costs, with a regular re-fresh and re-tool of the internals is that many of our computing chips and circuit boards are built overseas in factories that are optimized … Continue reading →

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Why Two Devices

Posted on June 27, 2011 by way0utwest

I used to travel with two laptops, one as a backup, however lately I’ve switched to taking the iPad and a laptop. The iPad doesn’t double as a backup, but it does let me do things like take notes at … Continue reading →

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