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Sunday, 14 February 2010

DataHand for Programmers

Filed under: Hardware & Gadgets — Jan Goyvaerts @ 16:56

The DataHand’s use of modes for cursor navigation, function keys, numbers and punctuation make it more comfortable for programming, not less.

Tuesday, 9 February 2010

Make Backups on External Hard Disks

Filed under: Hardware & Gadgets — Jan Goyvaerts @ 19:43

In addition to the SSD and HDD inside your computer, you need external disks for daily backups and off-site backups.

Monday, 8 February 2010

Organizing Your Data Between an SSD and HDD

Filed under: Hardware & Gadgets — Jan Goyvaerts @ 19:43

SSD drives are fast but expensive. HDD drives are cheap but relatively slow. To get the best of both worlds, you need a strategy for organizing your data between both.

Thursday, 4 February 2010

Hot-Plug Hard Disks Like They’re USB Sticks with AHCI

Filed under: Hardware & Gadgets — Jan Goyvaerts @ 12:04

With Vista or Windows 7 and a motherboard that supports AHCI, you can plug and unplug SATA hard disks as if they’re USB drives while getting the full speed benefits of the SATA interface.

Wednesday, 3 February 2010

A Flashy New PC

Filed under: Hardware & Gadgets — Jan Goyvaerts @ 12:04

Replacing my computer’s boot drive with an SSD flash drive boosted its performance to the point where it’s like I have an entirely new system. I upgraded from XP to Windows 7 too.

Friday, 23 January 2009

DataHand for Sale Again

Filed under: Hardware & Gadgets — Jan Goyvaerts @ 19:50

The DataHand Keyboard is on the market again. I’m still happily using mine. I couldn’t type 40 hours a week on anything else.

Tuesday, 24 June 2008

WD MyBook Studio External Hard Disk Exposed

Filed under: Hardware & Gadgets — Jan Goyvaerts @ 19:56

When the 250 GB hard disk in my development system started to get a little cramped, I decided to add a second disk instead of replace the one I have. One disk would hold the operating system and applications, and the second one my data. I’ve already been storing the OS and data [...]