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  • GlusterFS Conclusion?

    GlusterFS Conclusion?

    Not yet… Without me having the time and the hardware to do a real world test this week I’ve been spending a lot of time reading up on my future setup.  It would appear that since GlusterFS doesn’t (at this time but Raid6 is slotted...

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  • GlusterFS Continued

    GlusterFS Continued

    I have successfully created a stripe across two computers using the GlusterFS install.  It was pretty easy to setup and configure though the documentation they have on their site needs a little revision.  At this point it’s really written towards someone with a higher level...

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  • GlusterFS

    GlusterFS

    I have been looking into a setup that would allow a networked file system similar to a raid 5 setup. My problem has been that everything I had found was complex to install and had to use custom cluster applications to use the file system....

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  • Essential Software – Defraggler

    Essential Software – Defraggler

    Again, this is comes from the same developer, Piriform, as with CCleaner, Defraggler takes on the task of defragmenting your hard drive’s data.  Aside from the fact that it defragments your drive, that’s really where the similarities between it and the standard Windows defragmenter end....

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  • Essential Software – CCleaner

    Essential Software – CCleaner

    I actually stumbled upon this software by accident.  I was downloading one of my preferred apps, defraggler (will be in another ES Post), when I found this tied to the developer’s website.  I am not one of those people, personally, who really cares about deleting...

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  • Essential Software – Spybot Search and Destroy

    Essential Software – Spybot Search and Destroy

    I have decided to include sections of Essential Software, meaning software that I install on every machine that I own. Software that I am pretty lost without. So here I am talking about a great program called Spybot – Search and Destroy. It is an...

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