All posts tagged hardware

Asus EeePC 1000HE – 3.5 Years of Service

In spring 2008 I bought my cute little netbook. I paid about 600 Swiss Francs for it. It was delivered with MS Windows XP on a 120GB harddisk and 1GB RAM. From then on I carried 1.5kg instead of the 3.5kg of my HP Laptop. I use it for all my work except visual design. [...]

RAID0 Performance Test

Recently I had to compose a file server for high load LAN read access. My first thought was to implement a RAID 0 over 4 harddisks. I took a dual core 2.5GHz CPU and 2GB of RAM. I attached four 500GB SATA drives to the mainboard and then I installed Debian 6 Squeeze on a [...]