[轉載] Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage

At Backblaze, we provide unlimited storage to our customers for only $5 per month, so we had to figure out how to store hundreds of petabytes of customer data in a reliable, scalable way—and keep our costs low. After looking at several overpriced commercial solutions, we decided to build our own custom Backblaze Storage Pods: [...]

[轉載] Build a RAID 6 array for $100/TB

Imagine storage that didn’t cost much more than bare drives. High density storage with RAID 6 – double-fault – protection, reasonable bandwidth and web-friendly HTTPS access.

And really, really cheap.

Not your enterprise’s RAID array
Raw disk cost is only 5-10% of an enterprise RAID system’s cost. The rest goes for corporate jets, sales commissions, tradeshows, sheetmetal, 2 [...]

你下一部電腦會係點?

雖然自己早排已經變了新既電腦, 但係有時得閑諗下依個問題都幾得意, 就好似其他人想中六合彩之後點洗錢一樣.

其實電腦既科技真係一日千里, 早幾個月 2 GB RAM 已經叫好勁, 點知現在 4GB~6GB 至係上限. 1TB hard disk 亦由千元下降至 600~800 依個 “平民價”, 而且 2TB 亦將會好快推出市面. 

軟件方面, Windows 7 亦完成測試並將會有零售版. 因為試用效果理想, 自己亦會購買正版, 暫時會考慮買 ultimate 版. 不過因為都會過千, 都咪話唔重皮.

How to remove EISA configuration partition

今日見到隻 hard disk 有兩個 partition 個 format 怪怪地, 什麼什麼 EISA Configuration, WinXP 無辦法 delete 佢. 唯有又要問 google 一番. 原來 Microsoft 有一個 resource app 叫 diskpart, 個 command 要用 command prompt call 起的, 功能應該都幾勁. 等我扮下勁介紹下點用先 :p

先去 Microsoft download 返個程式先: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=0FD9788A-5D64-4F57-949F-EF62DE7AB1AE, 又或者直接去 Microsoft Download Center 鍵入 DiskPart.exe. 下載完成後 double click 便可安裝, 安裝步驟十分直接, 答下 Next / Yes / [...]