Time Warner Road Runner
Within the last year here in the northeast, mainly the ones serviced by Time Warner Cable, have seen speed increases from 5mb up and 384k down go to 10mb down 1mb up with the rollout of DOCSIS 3. The speed increases where something that has been lacking in the area for some time with no additional cost for the new speed tiers.
I was lucky enough when we moved that there was a promotion for $29.99 for the first 12 months and at the expiry would be $44.99 to $49.99 a month thereafter. When I ordered service there was an immediate discrepancy with the speeds.
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Hard Drive
This article I located while just digging around, it has some good information although I would have liked to had some screenshots of the hardware testing that I did with all sorts of disk benchmarking tools. Too bad I didn’t think to keep those around for over a year. Oh well…. enjoy.
After a long time of running RAID0 I decided that there comes a time in every persons life that protecting from data loss is very important. Years of pictures, videos, music, documents, and other files can be lost with a catastrophic incident, with that in mind I set out on the road to see what I could do. Since Raid0 offers the best performance per dollar it was an easy solution at build time, it offers all the space from the drives and allows for greater transfer speeds writing and reading up to the amount of drives that are installed in the system.
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