Benchmarking USB memory stick read speeds
We use quite a lot of USB sticks for various server administration tasks. What we have noticed is constant lacklustre performance on most memory sticks....
Reflecting on Year 2016 and What is Coming For Year 2017
It has been quite an year over here at Pulsed Media. New datacenter, new network, new servers. In March we moved to the new datacenter,...
HDD and SSD Market Pricing Is Increasing.
Prices of HDDs has largely stagnated over the last 6 months, and in some cases for the past 2 years or more. SSD prices has actually increased...
RAID? What is it, and what does it mean for Your Seedbox?
RAID: Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks It is a common and mature technology to join multiple drives (HDDs or SSDs) to form either a redundant...
SSD Seedbox: The Holy Grail of Performance?
SSD Seedbox – Is it the Holy Grail of Performance? With SSDs as the storage medium you may be expecting always blazing fast speeds, link...
Kibibyte, Kilobyte – The divider 1024 and 1000
What are all these acronyms? What is the difference between MB, MiB and 1000 and 1024 dividers, especially when it comes to hard drive sizes?...
RAID Seedbox? Disk redundancy in Seedboxes
There’s been some chat going on about disk redundancy in Seedboxes. So how does the landscape look like? Google search of RAID5 Seedbox yields pretty much...
Disk IO Performance stats
Collecting I/O performance metrics We started to collect quite precise disk performance stats. First week of data is here! These stats are collected from the...
SSD Seedbox Beta testing!
SSD Seedboxes are under beta-testing and testing the waters phase right now! SSD Seedbox can offer an extreme in disk I/O performance, hence always fast...
Follow up on Seagate Archive 8TB HDD Benchmark
Two weeks back we benchmarked the Seagate Archive 8Tb drive, and it has gained some feedback. We’d like to take this opportunity to clear some...