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Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Diskpart in windows 7 is awesome

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Tuesday, December 15, 2009

MetaLUN Research

I’ve been trying to learn about the advantages and disadvantages of EMC Clariion MetaLuns.  All I really care about is performance and data protection, so this seems like a good choice

Here is some good information:

http://blog.scottlowe.org/2009/10/23/how-to-create-a-metalun/

http://www.emcstorageinfo.com/2008/03/type-and-benefits-of-meta-lun.html

http://clariionblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/metaluns.html

http://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/white-papers/h5773-clariion-perf-availability-release-28-firmware-wp.pdf

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Friday, December 11, 2009

Does this seem bad to anyone else?

My theory is that I dont need windows updates.

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