I recently installed a pair of 2T hard drives in my main desktop computer. Plenty of space now. I really don't want to lose my files (again) due to a hard drive crash, so I tried to set them up as a mirrored pair. First I found out that WinXP doesn't support RAID-1 (the last thing I need is a 4T partition that's not being backed up!). No problem, I thought. My motherboard supports SATA RAID. But I couldn't get NVidia's software to work. So I figured I'd just do periodic backups from one drive to the other. This quickly turned into a pain, since there was no simple way to do incremental backups.
I figured there might be some open source app that would do incremental backups between drives, but I worried that it would be flakey, and the last thing I need is unreliable backups. However, I just discovered Microsoft SyncToy that seems to do exactly what I want, although I still have to do manual backups. I'm still nervous about doing backups with a "Toy" but I'm willing to give it a go; I'm going to give Microsoft the benefit of the doubt here. I have it set to "Echo" changes from the main drive to the backup, so edits, renames, and deletions are all pushed to the backup drive. I can breath easier already.
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Vollrath Induction Burner
I found a cheap one on Amazon (the Max Burton 6000
) (one reviewer says Cooks Illustrated recommends this unit as best value < $500), but Ben says I needed one with more power, so got the 1800 watt Vollrath countertop unit from WebRestaurant.com instead. It's large, stable, and has a precise 1-100% power range and temperature and timing controls. I've only used it twice and am still getting used to it, but both times I had minor issues with food sticking/burning on the surface of the pan. My non-stick pans aren't magnetic, so I may need to get a new one. The dishes (Cambodian Ginger Chicken and scrambled eggs), however, turned out great. One annoying thing is that the chrome cover for the control knob fell off, so I'm going to have to glue it back on.
My plan is to put a 2-burner drop-in unit in the island when I do the new kitchen (either the Vollrath 69508 (3.5kW@240V) or the 69524 (2.9kW@240V).
) (one reviewer says Cooks Illustrated recommends this unit as best value < $500), but Ben says I needed one with more power, so got the 1800 watt Vollrath countertop unit from WebRestaurant.com instead. It's large, stable, and has a precise 1-100% power range and temperature and timing controls. I've only used it twice and am still getting used to it, but both times I had minor issues with food sticking/burning on the surface of the pan. My non-stick pans aren't magnetic, so I may need to get a new one. The dishes (Cambodian Ginger Chicken and scrambled eggs), however, turned out great. One annoying thing is that the chrome cover for the control knob fell off, so I'm going to have to glue it back on.My plan is to put a 2-burner drop-in unit in the island when I do the new kitchen (either the Vollrath 69508 (3.5kW@240V) or the 69524 (2.9kW@240V).
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