Last week I had the chance to take a peak at the Gadget Show Live event hosted at the NEC in Birmingham, UK. There were literally hundreds of vendors present, all showcasing their latest products and innovations; aswell as the usual suspects and big names you’d expect. Rather than bore you with a mash up [...]
Following on from my popular Asus S101 mod, Look what I just got my hands on: ION2 Powered Dual Core Atom Net-top all I can say is… preliminary results look very good, with very nice performance. Expect a full review and tutorial soon. =)
Following on from my previous post regarding AFP and iSCSI benchmarks i’ve decided (after many requests) to post a few raw benchmarks of the system gathered by bonnie++, the environment is as follows: CPU: Athlon 64 3700+ RAM: 2gb DDR400 Controllers: 2x SATA-II and 1x SATA-I Hard Drives: 7x Samsung 2tb Spinpoint F3 5600 RPM [...]
UPDATED WITH BOTH iSCSI & AFP RESULTS I’ve recently setup a ZFS raidz with 7 disks using NexentaStor, natively this doesn’t come with AFP, but I managed to get a package and get this all working (which i’ll demo in an upcoming tutorial), one thing i noticed however is that I could never find any [...]
Well, i’ve used FreeNAS for around 2 years+ now, and all has been good, however, in that time demand for large quantities of storage has now been joined by demand for high speed storage; Once I had replaced all of my drives with 2tb 7200rpm drives I realised that FreeNAS wasn’t giving me the performance [...]
Hi everyone! I keep getting lots of emails from people asking where they can buy xyz to complete the tutorials and try out some of the things listed on CaptainGeek, well after I kept emailing people the same links i had a thought, why not setup an amazon affiliate store. Basically, i’ve setup a small [...]
Hello everyone, this isn’t the forewaited big change, but i thought it was worth posting a quick drill down review of the (in my opinion) 4 best tunnel broker services out there. In this review i’ll be covering UKERNA, Hurricane Electric, Sixxs & Freenet6/Go6. At the end you’ll see my recommendation and why. All of [...]
If you want all of your storage in one centralised place, that is accessible using just about any protocol out there, then you’ll need Network Accessible Storage (NAS), This can be often very expensive, upwards of £1,000, however you should firstly try FreeNAS, its a project based upon FreeBSD which provides a very comprehensive NAS [...]