Promise SuperSwap
I’ve talked a lot about ATA RAID these last few months, but have left out an important aspect of fault tolerance. To accompany a hot swappable RAID card like the SuperTrak100, you need removable drive cages or chassis. Promise has…
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Promise FastTrak
When one thinks of ATA RAID, the first name that comes to mind is Promise. The first company to mass market a controller for IDE drives continues the FastTrak line from the original to the 66 and 100 models, each…
Promise SuperTrak100
The second card in our ATA RAID project is the Promise SuperTrak100. Promise has had a long standing relationship with ATA RAID in the form of their FastTrak line, which we’ll look at next week. With the SuperTrak line Promise…
Adaptec AAA-UDMA
After spending far too many nights benchmarking, let’s take a look at the first of three ATA RAID adapters. The Adaptec AAA-UDMA was the first RAID 5 adapter designed for ATA hard drives. RAID had been the domain of SCSI…
3ware Escalade 8506-8
Escalade® 8506 Series Supports up to 12 drives with a single PCI card enabling up to 3terabytes of storage (dependent on drive capacity , 2TB per array maximum) Supports ATA / 133 / 100 drives with a Parallel-to-Serial Drive Converter…
3ware Escalade 7500-8
The world of ATA RAID is a small one. When I first became interested there were two players: Promise and Highpoint. Slowly I began to hear of 3ware, a company that produced great products, but at a high price. At…
Recuva
While I can’t endorse slang titles for software, Recuva is a nice little Windows undelete program. The caveat with all undelete programs is to have them already installed before you try and undelete something, so it’s a sort of “install…
DriverMax
This free ( free registration code sent via email ) utility allows you to make a backup of your Window XP and Vista drivers, then reinstall them in a single process. Saves some time locating your drivers and reinstalling piecemeal,…
WordPress 2.1
I’ve just updated my sites with WordPress 2.1 and I’m impressed with the changes. Little things here and there, plus notables like major editor reworking and autosave. If you’re running a WordPress site update now to version 2.1 and enjoy…