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• Cross-OS File System That Sucks Less?

  Published: July 28, 2007, 1:13 pm

  Tags: Storage

  An anonymous reader writes "I recently got an external hard disk with USB 2.0/Firewire/Firewire 800/eSATA to be used for backup and file exchange — my desktop runs Linux (with a Windows partition for games but no data worth saving), and the laptop is a MacBook Pro. So the question popped up: what kind of filesystem is best for this kind of

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• Apple TV finally hacked for USB storage expansion

  Published: July 28, 2007, 5:08 pm

  Tags: Apple, Apple Tv, Appletv, Hack, Storage, Usb Port, Usbport

  under: Home Entertainment, StorageEnterprising Apple TV users have been putting that USB port to good use for ages now, for every hack but the most obvious one: media playback. So far you haven't been able to make a cheap, external USB drive into your primary storage device for kosher Apple TV media, but no longer. The Apple TV Hacks folks have

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• Ellips shelves scientifically proven to make rooms awesome

  Published: July 29, 2007, 9:02 am

  Tags: Ellips, Home, Home Decor, Interior Design, Shelves, Storage

  Filed under: Home styleOkay, so maybe the Ellips shelves aren't really scientifically proven to make rooms awesome, but if you take a look around the website, you should get proof enough and be able to fully embrace the awesomeness.These shelves are assembled from specially cut pieces of wood to play tricks on the eye, adding extra fluidity to a

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• Apple TV Hacks calls for help to polish the USB drive hack

  Published: July 29, 2007, 10:30 am

  Tags: Apple Tv, Apple Tv Hacks, Appletv, Appletvhacks, External Storage, Externalstorage, Hacks, Hard Drive, Harddrive, Mods, Usb Drive, Usbdrive

  Filed under: Hardware, OS, Hacks, Mods, Blogs, Apple TVTwo days after Apple TV Hacks published the much sought-after USB hard drive hack for the Apple TV, the site is making a call for help to polish the modification. For now, the hack isn't for the faint of heart - it requires some mucking around at the command line, not to mention an Intel Mac

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• Technophilia: Get productive with the best Facebook Apps

  Published: July 30, 2007, 12:00 pm

  Tags: Amazon, Calendar, Del Icio Us, Digg, Document Sharing, Documents, Facebook, Feature, Feeds, File Sharing, File Storage, Files, Getting Things Done, Getting To Done, Google, Google Calendar, Google Reader, Gtd, Image Editing, Last Fm, Lists, Media, Media Player, Netflix, Photos

  still pretty useful. Files/Storage Files gives you up to 1 GB of free online space from which to share any kind of file: text, audio, video, etc. (Requires a Box.net account.) Swap and share files with Divshare, up to 200 MB in size. Tracking Get the calendrial (new word, peeps) power of 30 Boxes in your Facebook with the superbly executed

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• Featured Mac Download: Add file versioning to your Mac with TimeDrawer

  Published: July 30, 2007, 2:00 pm

  Tags: Clips, Downloads, Featured Mac Download, File Management, File Storage, Mac, Top, Version Control

  Mac OS X only: A lot of us are excited about Time Machine, the new feature set to launch with Leopard that adds built-in file versioning to OS X. However, until Leopard is released (or until you decide it's worth the money to upgrade), freeware application TimeDrawer provides an attractive, intuitive file versioning system for your Mac. Every

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• Peripherals: Iomega StorCenter 1TB w/RAID, Gigabit Ethernet, UPnP, and USB Expansion

  Published: July 31, 2007, 5:05 pm

  Tags: 1tb, Ethernet, Gigabit, Hdd, Iomega, Peripherals, Raid, Storage, Storcenter, Usb

  Iomega's StorCenter NAS devices are shipping in sizes from 500GB to 1TB with 7200 RPM SATA-II drives. The 1GB uses two drives, so can work in RAID 0, 1, or JBOD (one large drive). Each has Gigabit, but no WiFi, and has Active directory support and UPnP server ability. Interestingly, you can tether drives to this one via the two USB ports. $269 for

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• Blue Blu-ray

  Published: July 31, 2007, 5:26 pm

  Tags: Storage

  TopSpin writes "Early this year the meme circulated that Blu-ray might be going the way of Betamax, and for the exact same reason: Sony's unfriendliness to the porn industry. But at Japan's recent euphemistically named Adult Treasure Expo 2007, adult filmmakers said Sony has begun offering technical support, and this was later confirmed by Sony

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• Why Sun for Storage???

  Published: July 31, 2007, 7:49 pm

  Tags: Storage Intelligence

  we consider Sun as our Storage Provider?"  I won't mention the customer, so my response here will be more generic - but let's start with 3 reasons: 1.  Our storage capability:  Add Sun's history to StorageTek's 35 years of storage leadership and you get a powerful combination.  We are

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• Colds Just Got Expensive: Virus Storage, It Could Happen!

  Published: August 1, 2007, 9:20 am

  Tags: Colds Just Got Expensive, Peripherals, Research, Storage, Virus, Virus Memory, Virus Storage

  plant viruses into a storage medium. By attaching viruses to quantum dots (semiconducting material) and sandwiching them between electrodes, the hybrid viruses acted as storage units. Add enough viruses, and you have some seriously high density storage. Sounds good, but why do we need the virus part at all? From researcher Mihri

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• Pocket Rocket: Super Tiny Micro SD Card Reader - Super, Tiny

  Published: August 3, 2007, 10:35 am

  Tags: Brando, Gadgets, Micro Sd, Pocket Rocket, Portable Media, Storage, T Flash, Thumb Drive

  The "Super Tiny Micro SD Card Reader" gets about as small as physically possible to read Micro SD and and T-Flash media, while still connecting to a normal USB 2.0 port. At a mere 25.5 x 12 x 4.5 mm, the reader is dwarfed by keys—I mean, just look at that picture—unless Brando is using the old "big key trick" again. At $11, the Super

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• Storage System Patterns Wiki Site

  Published: August 3, 2007, 1:18 pm

  Tags: Storage Management

  implementation patterns for storage systems Over the past few months I've been brainstorming about how to capture the substantial community knowledge around implementing storage solutions that are centered around "off the shelf" systems coupled with "off the shelf" software. I will admit the obvious bias towards Sun Systems and using

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• MyDataBus Hooks Up with Zamzar A True Mashable Match

  Published: August 3, 2007, 5:50 pm

  Tags: Mass Online Storage, Web 2 0

  MyDataBus, the free online storage solution often used by social networking users that love to share media, has hooked up with Zamzar, the file-conversion service. Zamzar’s tools allow you to convert to PDF files, as well as audio, video, image and other document formats, making it a robust and useful service for web-based file and document

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• Lanner rolls out four-bay NS04-3100 NAS server

  Published: August 4, 2007, 5:25 pm

  Tags: Hard Drive, Harddrive, Lanner, Nas, Nas Server, Nasserver, Storage

  under: Storage, NetworkingWhile there's not a great deal to distinguish it from the multitude of other NAS servers out there, Lanner's new NS04-3100 looks like it should easily satisfy those with hefty storage appetites, offering four bays for some SATA drives of your choosing. Otherwise, you'll get just about all the features you'd expect

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• Case of the Great Hot-Site Swap

  Published: August 4, 2007, 7:30 pm

  Tags: Storage

  BobB writes "Two universities — Bowdoin in Maine and Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles — have entered a unique arrangement under which they are backing up each other's web sites, email and servers on different ends of the continent. They say this could be a disaster recovery model all sorts of organizations could follow. From the

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