likefunbutnot's Profile

Display Name:	likefunbutnot
Member Since:	7/3/08

Are all of these comments spam? For non-spam comments, please email us at help@apartmenttherapy.com

Latest Comments...

My back-end storage is handled by regular old Fedora Linux systems and motherboards with lots of SATA ports. The software RAID and volume management built in to any version of Linux allow for online array expansion and allow me to put all my money directly in to storage, which is where I prefer it.

I have four systems with 12 drives apiece, each in 2 5TB RAID5 arrays, for a total of 40TB of available storage. I use rsync to back up the array on one machine to an array on a different machine.

At some point, I'll pull a pair of machines and re-build with 2TB drives, but the processes I use won't change. It's really a pretty sweet setup if you're willing to learn a little bit about Linux.

Apartment Therapy Unplugged | Good Questions: NAS? WHS? RAID? What's the Best Option for Expandable Storage?

4/24/09 4:49 PM

This is massive levels of BS. More than anything, I believe its a cynical ploy for some extra ad revenue on a site no one visits any more.

My real life experience with a pair of Thinkpad T61s, one with a 32GB SSD and the other with a 160GB 7200rpm hard disk shows that I get between 15 and 25% more battery life out of my SSD-equipped unit.

Furthermore, as a very wise person on Slashdot pointed out yesterday, the moronic testing methodology they concocted is based on continually spooning data to their testbed's CPU(s); the SSD undoubtedly manages to cycle through their testing program more often meaning that CPU utilization in the SSD-based machine is going to be a lot higher. Not-idle CPUs draw quite a bit more power than idle ones, especially in notebooks, which might throttle down to a quarter of their full speed when not in active use.

Apartment Therapy Unplugged | Debunked Hype: Solid State Drives vs. The Usual Spinners

7/3/08 8:31 AM