Many people think that white-box machines (IE the cheapest no-nam PCs you can buy) are suitable for use as servers. There are several factors that make white-box machines totally unsuitable for use…| etbe - Russell Coker
It’s often the case with technology that serious changes occur at a particular price or performance point in development. Something has small use until it can be developed to a certain combin…| etbe - Russell Coker
I was in a discussion about flash on a closed mailing list, so I’ll post my comments here. I believe that flash will soon be suitable for main storage on most desktop and laptop machines (whi…| etbe - Russell Coker
Eweek has an article on a new 1TB Seagate drive. Most home users don’t have a need for 1TB of storage (the only way I’ve ever filled a 300G drive is by using it for multiple backups) an…| etbe - Russell Coker
In a comment on my previous post about ECC RAM someone commented that Dell sells PowerEdge desktop machines with ECC RAM. I visited the Dell web site and found that a low-end PowerEdge tower server…| etbe - Russell Coker
