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…
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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…
GParted Walk Through
I’ve mentioned GParted before as an excellent free partition manager. HowToForge.com has posted an excellent walk through to get the hesitant started. Modify your partitions with GParted without losing data
Maxtor Maxline Pro 7H500F0
This is not so much a review but a cautionary tale. Let me begin by saying I’ve been a longtime supporter (and purchaser) of Maxtor drives. They’ve had a few bumps in the road but I stick with them. Just…
OCZ Roadster USB 2.0 Flash Drive
I’m always on the lookout for bargain gear, especially after Christmas. I spotted the OCZ Technology Roadster 1 GB for $10 CDN and grabbed a couple, since USB flash drives are always handy. When the package arrived I was blown…