Steve Duplessie’s recent post on how the lack of scarcity will be a gamechanger got me thinking. Free is good but the simplicity of the user/administrative interface is worth paying for. And it’s that simplicity that pays off for me. Ease of use I agree wholeheartedly with Steve about what and where people should spend [...]

There was a time not long ago when the title of this post wouldn’t have included SSD. But, with the history of the last couple of years, SSD has earned its right to be included. A couple of years back I was at a Rocky Mountain Magnetics Seminar (see IEEE magnetics societies) and a disk [...]