Quoted: The enclosure indicates that the drive is not working by flashing the LED on the drive door red. At the same time, you still can access the data on the other drive but of course any data stored now will not be mirrored until the drive is fixed. When we put the drive in again after formatting it on another computer, the MobileSTOR MS2UTN+B directly started to rebuild the array, this time blinking the LED red and purple. A rebuild takes the same amount of time as the first time you set up the array.

Thinking about getting this. Reviews seem pretty positive.

Quoted: To test the MobileSTOR, I had setup some typical use scenarios. The first one is something everyone that will buy this unit should plan on doing. Attaching it to a computer and setting up RAID 1 for a backup device is the primary purpose of a device like this. Setting the unit to "SAFE" which is option #3 and hitting the reset button made the device start to rebuild the array. For the 80GB drives, it took a bit over an hour for a full rebuild. Interestingly enough, it doesn't erase the data on the primary drive (the top drive). It uses the top drive as a template for the mirror and copies the data to the second drive. It always does a full rebuild for safety even if there is no data.

Didn't know about this until now. I discovered this while I was investigating how a certain Web site still seemed to remember stuff about me even though I had cleared my cookies.

Quoted: Currently, only Mozilla-based browsers provide a working implementation of the DOM Storage specification. However, Internet Explorer does have a similar feature called "userData behavior" that allows you to persist data across multiple browser sessions.
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DOM Storage is useful because no good browser-only methods exist for persisting reasonable amounts of data for any period of time. Browser cookies have limited capacity and provide no support for organizing persisted data, and other methods (such as Flash Local Storage) require an external plugin.

This new per request charge is very annoying -- especially in scenarios like the one I'm planning where you are using S3 for lots of small files.

Quoted: I had largely ignored the Amazon S3 pricing hike or decrease (depending on who you are) which included the addition of a per request charge. It really popped up again when I was recently talking to a new accelerator (just a few) + CDN customer recently.

Quoted: Because I am working on a widely distributed client application that can not contain our private S3 key, I have a web service on my own server set up that will create Query String Authentication URLS for use with S3. My service creates the URL, passes it back

The chart at the bottom of this article is helpful...it shows how long you can keep foods before they spoil. I was curious as I was cleaning out my fridge today:)

Quoted: The following charts provide general recommended storage times from date of purchase for various food products stored under optimum conditions. Storage generally is not recommended under conditions where no time is listed in the chart. For maximum shelf-life, consumers should always purchase fresh food and never temperature abuse food.

redotted from mike.

i knew they were acquired by somebody...got the company wrong.

We think there may be an opportunity in flash memory. We may look at SanDisk in a future meeting.

Quoted: In an effort to ensure that its data-protection product doesn't get lost in the upcoming frenzy of Microsoft's new DPM (Data Protection Manager), EMC has announced an upgrade to its popular RepliStor file replication software.