tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14162253.post3490520593305275826..comments2024-03-27T08:39:28.807-06:00Comments on Wash Park Prophet: Should Computers Have Internal Hard Drives?Andrew Oh-Willekehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02537151821869153861noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14162253.post-55810260847602270522007-06-30T22:43:00.000-06:002007-06-30T22:43:00.000-06:00Andrew, you know me from engaging you on other for...Andrew, you know me from engaging you on other forums on legal ethics issues (tiltawhirl on ColoradoPols & PeteSmith on ColoradoConfidential). I am a computer forensics examiner and provide e-discovery consulting for small to mid-size firms. The model that you describe in your article has, in essence, been around for years. More than a decade ago, if memory serves, Citrix (still in business) was a platform where Windows workstations were dumb terminals (no hard drives) and loaded up a one-instance-at-a-time operating system, which ran in volatile RAM and which was initially booted up over the thicknet. This model is, of course, still possible in offices and using, perhaps, better software, like VM Workstation. VMWare, in fact, is now used to create an array of virtual servers to meet a company's evolving needs and, which allows the sysadmins to scale up and down the CPU, memory and hard-drive allocation afforded to each virtual server. However, as a centralized (versus distributed) system, the success of the model depends on the core (the server side) being up at all times. Without fault tolerance and redundancy, if the server side is down, everyone is down.<BR/><BR/>As a side note, they do currently offer thumb drives with the entire bootable O/S on them. They are compatable with any machine, I assume, running an Intel or AMD x86-type processor and, which has sufficient RAM. I assume that the O/S writes to the page file (therefore assumes the presence of a hard drive).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14162253.post-82726556801650889642007-06-29T19:56:00.000-06:002007-06-29T19:56:00.000-06:00I keep track of removable media (not all of its po...I keep track of removable media (not all of its porn) using a $39 product called Datacatch Librarian www.datacatch.com which addresses the "on what media is my porn stored" issue.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14162253.post-90671943463469246372007-06-29T11:26:00.000-06:002007-06-29T11:26:00.000-06:00Without an internal drive where would I store my p...Without an internal drive where would I store my porn?Dave Barneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07355264650239868491noreply@blogger.com