Craig Koster » Hardware http://www.craigkoster.com/blog Design, Develop, & Deliver Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:12:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Server Fault http://www.craigkoster.com/blog/server-fault/ http://www.craigkoster.com/blog/server-fault/#comments Fri, 29 May 2009 15:20:13 +0000 admin http://www.craigkoster.com/?p=214 Server Fault

Server Fault is for system administrators and IT professionals, people who manage or maintain computers in a professional capacity.

Nice companion site to Stack Overflow for system administrators and network engineers.

]]> http://www.craigkoster.com/blog/server-fault/feed/ 0 USB Drives… http://www.craigkoster.com/blog/usb-drives/ http://www.craigkoster.com/blog/usb-drives/#comments Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:52:26 +0000 admin http://www.craigkoster.com/blog/?p=80 I’ve been using Western Digital USB drives for about four or five years now. Back in 2004 my laptop hard drive bonked and I found myself with stale backups that were about a month old. I’m lucky I only lost a month’s worth of work but it woke me up to the fact that my backup process was lacking.

I bought a Western Digital 40GB Passport and used it to back up all my important files and installation programs. It’s worked great and has never given me any problems but recently I filled it to capacity (40GB doesn’t go as far as it used to) so I was forced to get a newer model.

We saw a nice sale on a Western Digital 350GB Passport Elite drive at Costco so I had my wife pick it up for me. Right out of the box I was surprised at how much smaller and lighter this drive was than my old 40GB model. It almost seemed to be too fragile but I’ve been using it for about a week now and it’s a great drive. For anyone looking for a great portable USB drive, I’d highly recommend looking at a Western Digital product.

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