• “iSCSI: The Perfect Storage Complement to OS X?”
  - > Comparing DAS, NAS and SAN
• See clear picture with differences on DAS, NAS and SAN: Storage_Area_Network

• Storage_Area_Network

• Network-attached_storage
• FreeNAS
• http://www.freenas.org/
• FreeNAS and Mac OS X - brilliant!
• NORCO DS-520G Home Server NAS Appliance

• WD My Book Studio Edition II
• Wikipedia about Western_Digital_My_Book
• Problems with WD My Book-Pro Edition II
• Drivers → http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=114&lang=en
• How to Revive Western Digital Mybook World Edition → http://www.ismprofessional.net/pascucci/documenti/mybook/mybook-hacking-en.html

• Wikipedia: FreeNAS
• http://www.freenas.org/
• Knowledge Base → http://www.freenaskb.info/kb/
• FreeNAS network support

DMA errors

• Solution to problem “TIMEOUT - READ_DMA”
  → http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/current/2004-09/1728.html
• http://wiki.freebsd.org/JeremyChadwick/Commonly_reported_issues
• FreeBSD ATA/SATA kernel issues
  → http://wiki.freebsd.org/JeremyChadwick/ATA_issues_and_troubleshooting
• known problem with the FreeBSD ATA layer

• iSCSI
• Linux iSCSI → http://linux-iscsi.org/index.php/Main_Page
• HOWTO: Leopard Time Machine over iSCSI

• NASBackup (rsync for Windows) → http://www.nasbackup.com/wiki/Introduction
• DeltaCopy (rsync for Windows) → http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp

• raid calculator → http://www.ibeast.com/content/tools/RaidCalc/RaidCalc.asp

A big performance increase for RAID5 systems: use 'noatime' in fstab.
or:
mount / -o remount,noatime

This way every read does not result in an update of the 'access-time' 
which is a write as well.

• SATA
• AHCI

• Automatic_Acoustic_Management (AAM)

• Solid-state Drive

Wear out after 1,000 to 10,000 write cycles for MLC, up to 100,000 write cycles for SLC.

• IOzone (linux) → http://www.iozone.org/

• debian admin → Filesystem Encryption Tools for Linux
• loop-aes → http://sourceforge.net/projects/loop-aes/
• dm-crypt → http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt/
• DM-Crypt
• LUKS = Linux Unified Key Setup
• Howto dm-crypt/luks on CentOS
  → http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/EncryptedFilesystem
• Howto dm-crypt/luks on Debian
  http://www.hermann-uwe.de/blog/howto-disk-encryption-with-dm-crypt-luks-and-debian

• http://www.partition-tool.com/easeus-partition-manager/help/resizing-and-moving-partition.htm
• ntfs resize with linux-tool: NTFSresize
  → http://www.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php?id=ntfsresize (packaged in Linux-NTFS)
• ntfsresize along with qtparted is also packaged in Knoppix
• Paragon Partition Manager (backup/restore, not resize)
  → http://www.paragon-software.com/

• Wikipedia → Samba
• http://us6.samba.org/samba/
• Official Samba Howto → http://us6.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/
• Examples → https://calomel.org/samba.html
• oreilly.com online catalogue - Using Samba
  → http://oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/index.html
• Filesystem Differences
  → http://oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/ch05_02.html
• Samba doc → Chapter 38. The Samba Checklist Part V. Troubleshooting

• File_synchronization
• http://www.powerfolder.com/
• http://www.foldermatch.com/
• iFolder (Novell, OpenSource) → http://www.ifolder.com/
• VMWare Appliance: Novell iFolder on OpenSuse with VMware Tools
  → http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/620
• Mac file sync ChronoSync
• Good Windows Sync → http://allwaysync.com/
• jFileSync → http://jfilesync.sourceforge.net/index.shtml
• Folder Synchronizer Programs Review
• synkron → http://synkron.sourceforge.net/index.php
• subsynct → http://code.google.com/p/subsynct/
• freefilesync → http://freefilesync.sourceforge.net/screenshots.php

• advise from B&IT Networks
• http://www.goodsync.com/
• http://www.goodsync.com/mac/support/manual#portable_paths

• unison
• Unison File Synchronizer User Manual and Reference Guide Version 2.27.57
• http://www.stanford.edu/~pgbovine/unison-for-your-mom.htm

run unison in batch-mode (pref-file: batch = true) and there will be no questions and auto-sync all updates and skip all conflicts. When minimum one conflict is seen, exit code is non-zero and messages are sent to stderr (crontab would pick that up and sent email)

• rsync

• Windows NT Robocopy → http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robocopy

• IsoBuster can repair CD-R → http://www.isobuster.com/nl/
• IsoBuster runs on Linux through Wine → http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iAppId=1384
• Kiso → http://kiso.sourceforge.net/

• http://www.iasobackup.com/nl/
• http://wiki.iasobackup.com/index.php/IASO_2010_Release_notes#IASO_Backup_2010