My New 1000 GB (1TB) Drive

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I’ve been wanting a 1 TB drive since Seagate started selling them at a reasonable price. Besides being budget conscious in the current economy, I also got paranoid with all the reports of problems. I trusted Seagate to fix them eventually, but it still left me with some hesitation. I finally got to the point where every time I looked at my main and back up drive free space, I was getting concerned (I like to have 50% free).  Then New Egg had a sale. I hemmed and hawed for a couple of days and finally bought the Western Digital Caviar Green WD10EADS 1TB. It is cheaper than the Caviar Black, though not by much. Reading the reviews, the price difference has to do with speed. I also read the reviews of unhappy customers to see what the complaints were, and the only problem with the Green was speed. The other drives had issues with noise, or failing within a short period of time. I’m in agreement with most reviewers, in that a drive that big is only for storage, so speed is not as important. Good thing, too, because the drive is not fast. It is quite, though, which is appreciated in my home office where there are two towers and one laptop running all the time with a combined 6 to 7 drives running (depending on if the portable is plugged into the laptop) and 14 fans running. I look forward to summer just so my window A/C will drown out the noise.

Installation was a breeze, which is good because the OEM one comes with no instructions.  No I just have to stay patient and test the drive for a couple of weeks before I wipe the 500 GB Seagate it is replacing and move it up to my main drive.

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A Tutorial by Any Other Name…

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It may be just because they are really good at SEO, but everytime I’m looking for a quick (free) tutorial on something I want to learn about or need a refresher, RoseIndia usually comes up. I think the reason for the quality of most of their tutorials is that they don’t create them all themselves. This is not immediatly obvious, unless you keep looking at other search results for tutorials and find the same one posted in 20 other places. Still, they are good aggregtor for technical tutorials, and for that I definitly recommend bookmarking them.

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Catch a Wave

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Reading The enterprise implications of Google Wave over on ZDNet, I find the article really well done. I do have a nit to pick with one comment:

“With Google’s tendency to emphasize the consumer world first and the enterprise later, it’s also valid to ask if Wave will really have much impact on businesses.”

My observation has been that most computing technology innovations start in the business market and flounder around until consumers catch on to it.  Then again, he may just be saying that for his set up, as his next sentence is:

“Interestingly, you might be surprised at some of the answers, so let’s take a look.”

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