September 23, 2014
How fast is MD5?
I was having a conversation with some colleagues today on the topic of checksums. Someone was quoted as being able to hash a terabyte of data using MD5 in one minute. This is of course ludicrous for a single hard drive on a home computer, but I’m curious to see what it would take to […]
September 4, 2012
Experiments with Ubuntu software RAID0
Ubuntu Linux uses the Mdadm utility to manage software raid devices. This isn’t as fast as having a hardware raid controller, but it’s certainly cheaper (free!) and more convenient. I had a few identical drives laying around, and I’m in the middle of building an HTPC so I figured this would be a good opportunity […]