Binaryspiral

My original post included a quick and dirty test on raw hard drive performance using HDTach to give me an idea of what I was working with with my new DroboPro. Of course true to any benchmarking test – there are so many metrics that can be tested that may be able to give me [...]

Recently I was able to purchase and test two Drobo storage appliances.
A DroboS with five disks and a DroboPro with eight disks. All the disks are the same size, speed, and manufacturer. The specs are listed further below for your consumption.
The DroboS is attached via USB 2.0 to my desktop workstation – a Dell OptiPlex [...]

I love deliveries. Especially this time of year. UPS, FedEx, AirTrans, carrier pigeon… I don’t care – it’s usually something expensive and always something that is going to make my job easier.
Today, FedEx delivered a pallet of new HP servers and parts for our new campus. The pallet also contained a few parts for servers [...]

The college recently purchased a new Sophos Email Security appliance model. It was very easy to setup and I’m looking forward to having PureMessage filtering our spam and crapmail attacks, it’ll be a good thing.
The Active Directory integration is not a polished as their Web Security appliances’ are. We have two WS1000 appliances, also from [...]

The last few months at my new job I’ve been squishing small and medium bugs to get systems up to par. Service packs, patching, firmware updates, software upgrades, or just organized to make life easier for everyone involved.
Our server room has been one of those infested areas… I’ve been squashing the easy bugs but the [...]