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Introduction to Remote Backup Before introducing remote backup, we’ll go through some common terms associated with “backup” and find out the difference. Local Backup: “Local” means local device, it could possibly be a hard drive, desktop, and server or NAS that connects to an external device. In a sense, it’s like a DAS, external hard drive, external CD/DVD writer, tape drives, or other solid state storage, e.g. flash memory, thumb drive, CF card, SD cards [...]

What is giant frame / giant packets（Jumbo Frame）? Jumbo Frame is a feature that is supported on the NIC and hub; it’s specifically designed for Gigabit Ethernet industry standard, a long packet format. With Jumbo Frame, you can get Gigabit effectiveness of Ethernet network, allowing data transfer effectively of 50%-100%. A Jumbo Frame is anything bigger than 1518 bytes with a max of 9000 bytes and MPU default of 1500 bytes. In other words, the [...]

What is Link Aggregation？ Majority of Thecus® NAS offer seven modes of LAG (link aggregation). Load balance, Failover, 802.3ad, Balance-XOR, Balance-TLB, Broadcast and Balance-ALB. What is LAG? LAG is used to bond multiple links between your NAS and your switch into one bigger and faster link, increasing the network capacity while maintaining a fast transmission speed without changing any hardware devices, thus reducing cost. Doing so will offer optimal resource utilization, maximize throughput, minimize response [...]

Recently, Apple CEO, Tim Cook, hint that Apple television will change the living room. “When I go into my living room and turn on the TV, I feel like I have gone backwards in time by 20 to 30 years,” Cook said during an interview on Rock Center with Brian Williams . “ It’s an area of intense interest. I can’t say more than that.” The collaboration between HongHai and Apple pushed out the new iTV, [...]

Many SOHO or small studios specialize in video post-production, 3D animation or visual designers; there will be computer/workstation performance issues, as well storage capacity issues. Regarding, audio and video files, recording high definition video of the original file is in itself, a huge amount of data. For a 1.5 min, 30-frame per second 1080p video consists of more than 100 MB. In a project to produce special effects; requires a number of simultaneous processing of [...]

Introduction HA stands for High Availability and was at first a computer design approach.  Then it evolved into a more complex paradigm and a Linux-based solution. We’ll talk about both of those aspects. Everything started with the urging needs of more and more available for applications: banking, science, cloud computing, e-mail, gaming and so one. The goal is to get as close as possible from 100% available, which means 0 interruption of service since the [...]

The idea of the “Cloud” has been slowly introduced over the past few years, but rarely well explained. Many even use the Cloud every day of their lives, but when asked what it is, simply give a shrug of the shoulders and a bleary eyed “I dunno”. Very simply put, the Cloud is what we have come to know as services on the Internet. Gmail, the iPhone App Store, and Facebook are all concrete examples [...]