http://www.micro-isv.asia Jan Goyvaerts shares his opinions on the Micro-ISV industry and takes us behind the scenes of Just Great Software, his own Micro-ISV in Asia. Sun, 14 Feb 2010 09:56:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The DataHand for Sale Again article I wrote over a year ago is still getting comments. Time for an update. A few months after I wrote that article, datahand.com announced they were out of stock again. That notice stayed up all year. Since a few weeks ... http://www.micro-isv.asia/2010/02/datahand-for-programmers/ In my previous post I discussed how to organize data between an SSD and HDD. Though that implies two drives inside your PC, or two sets of drives if one SSD and one HDD don't offer enough space, a proper data management plan for a workstation requires four drives. ... http://www.micro-isv.asia/2010/02/make-backups-on-external-hard-disks/ In the past, when hard disks were relatively expensive, the best advice was usually to buy the biggest disk you could afford. Larger disks tended to offer a lower cost per megabyte (!), except perhaps for the largest model. Though that disk would seem to offer a lot ... http://www.micro-isv.asia/2010/02/organizing-your-data-between-an-ssd-and-hdd/ My upgrade to an SSD drive was going to require a reinstall of Windows anyway. I had to finally upgrade from XP to Windows 7 to get the TRIM support the SSD drive needs. So while I was at it, I replaced my ASUS P5K motherboard with a Gigabyte EP45-UD3R. ... http://www.micro-isv.asia/2010/02/hot-plug-hard-disks-like-theyre-usb-sticks-with-ahci/