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Tag: western digital
Western Digital buys Hitachi GST for $4.3 billion – Patrick’s Take
As someone who worked on the Seagate-Maxtor merger a few years ago, I was a bit worried to see this morning the news that...
The Big WHS: February 2011 Update
It has been a long time since I have posted about The Big WHS. At the last update in May 2010, the machine occupied...
Internal or External Hard Drives: Are Warranties Worth the Cost?
Internal hard drives usually carry a manufacturer’s warranty, commonly three years. Personally, I believe that after three years, one wants to replace drives due...
Newegg 1TB, 1.5TB, and 2TB Hard Drive Ratings – What is...
This weekend I woke up one morning and decided that I wanted to know if retail packaged drives had a lower DOA rate than...
Add 2TB+ GPT Disk/Volume to Windows Home Server v2 VAIL
Windows Home Server v1 (WHS) was limited to using 2TB Master Boot Record (MBR) partitions in its storage pool, but the public preview of Windows Home...
Install FreeNAS in Hyper-V: Part 2 Installing FreeNAS to a vhd
In previous articles we have shown how to set up a basic Hyper-V virtual machine that works with FreeBSD and FreeNAS as well as...