DVD with ISOs of windows and major linux install diskettes. Bootable CD with SCSI & CD-Rom drivers, Powerquest Partition Magic, Powerquest Drive Image and DOS utils.
Instead of carrying 20+ CDs I can carry 4 DVDs and a few blanks. If I need to create a CD, I copy the ISO to my hard disk and burn it. I now walk semi-erect.
Haven't seen much mention of a null modem cable to all term'ing into switches, etc.
Texas Memory systems makes a solid state box that provides great access times (particularly random reads/writes). This type of technology has also been used on the mainframe before for things like transaction logs and indices. This type of technology was stopped since big disk vendors (IBM, EMC, Hitachi) made intelligent disk subsystems that essentially had massive amounts of memory, internal to the disk subsystem. Now, its coming back for SAN's since people are looking at JBODS, simpler RAID systems, etc.
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DVD with ISOs of windows and major linux install diskettes. Bootable CD with SCSI & CD-Rom drivers, Powerquest Partition Magic, Powerquest Drive Image and DOS utils.
Instead of carrying 20+ CDs I can carry 4 DVDs and a few blanks. If I need to create a CD, I copy the ISO to my hard disk and burn it. I now walk semi-erect.
Haven't seen much mention of a null modem cable to all term'ing into switches, etc.
Texas Memory systems makes a solid state box that provides great access times (particularly random reads/writes). This type of technology has also been used on the mainframe before for things like transaction logs and indices. This type of technology was stopped since big disk vendors (IBM, EMC, Hitachi) made intelligent disk subsystems that essentially had massive amounts of memory, internal to the disk subsystem. Now, its coming back for SAN's since people are looking at JBODS, simpler RAID systems, etc.