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Cordless Drills and Screwdrivers

May 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Hey I need one now that I’ve got a boat to mangle.
Some to look at are:
Panasonic EY6432GZKW $200 and the Ryobi P813 at $170 are really godo if expensive. The Makita BDF452HW $200 is only 3.5 pounds.
If you want to be really manly, then the Hitachi DS18DMR at $200 and 6 pounds is [...]

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Terabyte Backup Drives

May 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

I never thought I’d see the day when I’d be shopping for four terabyte drives just for backups. Amazing how things have changed. Even more amazing is that it is so easy to fill a terabyte server these days with music, videos and home movies. In any case, if you need a backup for these, [...]

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MacBook Pro disk speed comparison

April 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

So an interesting test with XBench on disk speed. Since I’m using an older MacBook circa early 2007 for video processing, its interesting to compare the drives all of these are with 4KB blocks

Score Sequential Write Sequential Read Random Write Random Read Internal 5400rpm Fujitsu MHW2160BHPL 35.95 [...]

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