Category: Hardware

  • Kryder’s law and hard drive pricing.

    Hard Disk Historical Pricing (found from Kryder’s Law – A rule of thumb for hard drive growth). It’s amazing that in March of 1986, $48/MB was the sweet spot for a hard drive. By other milestones in my life: By the time I started college in 1994, the cost was under $1 per MB. By…

  • Solid State Disk Hype?

    I opened up InformationWeeek today and saw this article:  Solid State Disks, Demystified.  So, the current benefits of SSD technology may be exaggerated. Faster boots:  Read time bias and slimmed-down OS have helped exaggerate these results. Battery life:  Other devices are still consuming the same amount of power, which is not insignificant in the power…

  • What is your backup strategy?

    I’m looking for input on what your home and/or small business backup strategy is. What? You don’t have one? Well, mine has been spotty at best. I originally bought my Dell XPS desktop as a “Scratch & Dent” machine.  It has a RAID controller, but only came with a 250 GB hard drive, and the…