I've been using Backblaze B2 for cloud backup for the better part of a year. I started out accessing it over a 50 Mb/s link. A couple of months ago I upgraded to a 250 Mb/s link, and I was interested in seeing how that affected my upload rate. Today I got around to looking at … [Read more...]

This is the fourth in a series of posts about my out-of-box experience with a Dell T7920 workstation. The series starts here. I copied over the Lightroom catalogs from the old workstation. I had made sure to install the photo files on drives with the same letter and in … [Read more...]

This is the third in a series of posts about my out-of-box experience with a Dell T7920 workstation. The series starts here. In the previous post, a SATA III Samsung 860 Pro SSD yielded this performance: I installed another, and used Windows 10 software … [Read more...]

This is the second in a series of posts about my out-of-box experience with a Dell T7920 workstation. The series starts here. There are three kinds of disks on my new workstation. SATA III-attached spinning-rust 7200 RPM Seagate Enterprise 10 TB He SATA III-attached … [Read more...]

My old main workstation is getting on towards three years old, and it's time for an upgrade. I ordered another Dell Precision workstation, in spite of the teething pains I'd had with the last two. Here's the story of the setting-up, known in the biz as the OOBE (out-of-box … [Read more...]