Archive for the ‘Hardware’ Category

Software RAID 1 Performance on Ubuntu Server 8.04

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

A generous gift was bestowed upon me last week -- Dell's PowerEdge SC420 server. It came with two (2) 80GB hard drives which I have since replaced with two (2) 1TB hard drives. I decided to mirror these drives for the sake of redundancy using Linux's built-in software ...

Dream Gaming Computer - 2008

Saturday, October 11th, 2008

Every year my desktop gets older, our mortgage gets smaller, the games get better, and I crave new hardware. The 1st step is to admit you're addicted, right? Without further adieu, I present you with my pick for the best gaming desktop of 2008. My picks were ...