These are my links for May 27th through May 28th:

• Free Hard Disk Copy and Backup Freeware for PC & Server. Clone hard drive. Disk clone, disk backup, disk image and partition copy software. –
• PING (Partimage Is Not Ghost) –
• Open Source or Free Disk Cloning Utilities – How-To Geek Wiki –
• Comparison of disk cloning software – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia –
• Symantec Ghost who? A list of open source alternatives. | Pack Rat Studios –
• Bookmarks for May 26th through May 27th — Somewhere out there! – blog: Bookmarks for May 26th through May 27th: These are my links for May 26th through May 27th: ASRock Sandy Br…

These are my links for April 14th from 13:28 to 15:58:

• Re: Fastest Chunk Size w/XFS For MD Software RAID = 1024k –
• Filesystem performance tweaking with XFS on Linux@Everything2.com –
• Linux Not Fully Prepared for 4096-Byte Sector Hard Drives –
• Aligning an SSD on Linux –
• [linux-lvm] does alignment work out of the box now – md_chunk_alignment
• O+P Insights: Linux HW RAID Howto –
• ReliableRaid – Ubuntu Wiki –
• Mdadm-faq – Linux Raid Wiki – eg.
  "
  Array Slot : 2 (failed, 1, 0)
  Array State : Uu 1 failed
  "

These are my links for April 13th from 20:20 to 20:31:

• Linux on 4KB-sector disks: Practical advice –
• ATA 4 KiB sector issues – ata Wiki –
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• Partition Alignment : Managed Server Hosting – Dedicated Windows Servers, Cloud, ASP.Net, SQL and Shared Hosting plans provided by OrcsWeb Managed Hosting. –
• Best RAID and Cluster Size for a Small Server | MCB Systems –

These are my links for February 23rd from 12:22 to 13:41:

• Crisis Response Christchurch Earthquake – RT @google: Christchurch earthquake resources, maps, news + Person Finder
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• Fabric — Fabric v0.9.4 documentation –
• Use Python to Manage Enterprise Deployments with Fabric –
• Marketing Advice for Startups and Small Teams – Atlassian News –
• SSD drives difficult to wipe securely, researchers find | Computerworld NZ –

Here  some results from testing I did in August 2009 on  KVM with the three different disk image drivers. First a single disk system running Ubuntu x64 9.04:

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