With hard drives getting bigger all the time, Seagate have now entered the 3TB club with their Barracuda XT drive that doesn’t need additional hardware to run.
At mark 7:15 into his podcast, Rafe talks for about five minutes on moving from his EX470 HP MSS to a Synology DS411slim. Although he is leaving our community, Synology is not making it easy on him. Check out the links and give Rafe a listen.
Back in January we told you that Synology were beta testing their DiskStation Manager 3.1 software. Well yesterday they released the final version, and it has some new features worth taking a look at.
Dojo North Software released Beta version 1.6.10.28 of Home Server SMART which now provides continuous, automatic disk monitoring and also supports USB disks! Yes, you can now see SMART data from your USB drives. Sweet! Read on to find out more about this updated Add-in.
In this episode we talk about GPT and Master Boot Record formatting and this short sermon gives you a brief overview of these types of technology. Read on to find out how the use of drives larger than 2.2TB will affect your systems.
Another potential Drive Extender replacement is on the scene from DataCore. They specialize in virtualized storage, including pooling and data protection.
