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March 18th, 2008
Seagate VS Western Digital hard drive
I had a 80GB Seagate SATA 2 drive with 8MB cache, I thought that it would be more than enough when I bought it about 2 years ago , however due to downloading junk stuff from torrents and lots of Linux ISOs my Seagate drive had filled to capacity and I yesterday bought a new Western Digital 250GB SATA drive with 16MB cache . Before buying I had done a lot of research that hard drive from which vendor is better and after going through numerous forums, message boards and articles I came to the conclusion to buy a Western Digital drive instead of Seagate.
Opinions @internet regarding the performance of hard drives of these two companies are almost evenly poised with people giving a slight edge to Western Digital in reliability, Maxtor had really bad reviews.
So If you are looking to buy a new hard disk than I would suggest that you go for a WD hard drive, the prices for the two are almost same.
TIP: Also make sure that you have free SATA power cable in your PSU available otherwise also order the
SATA power cable along with the hard drive 
the imax | 9:38 pm | Uncategorized | Comment (1)
March 18th, 2008
SecureCRT a nice piece of terminal software
I had a requirement in which I wanted to open SSH sessions with multiple hosts from Windows , execute some commands and than save the output in a log file. I was looking for some software to automate this and found SecureCRT . It has some very nice logging and automation abilities, with the ability to over write a log file or to just append to it, similarly there is also the macros feature and you just give the required commands once and than afterwards just rerun the macro by a single click.
At startup you can select multiple connections to connect and don’t have to individually login to each host , this is a real blessing If you have to connect to 20+ hosts at a time
the imax | 9:16 pm | Linux/Unix | No Comments
March 18th, 2008
LPI 201 Exam
Just want to share that I took the 1st exam of the LPIC 2 series i.e. the LPI 201 paper last week and have fortunately passed it . Now just one more exam to go in the LPI series , hopefully I will also take it in 3-4 months.
This time to paper was not very difficult as after clearing the level one exams I had an idea of what to expect .
the imax | 9:04 pm | Linux/Unix | No Comments