mistermark writes: "Two years ago my encrypted fileserver was already covered here. Now that machine keeps running and running and the only thing that kept it from going in between has been a failing drive and a power-outage this last week.
So, it's about time to revise everything and add RAID to it as well. Now you can have a on-the-fly encrypting/decrypting NAS with the data-security of RAID, all in one:
An anonymous reader writes: If you love hacks like we do here at the Lab, this last week has been a treat for you. Apple TV has been properly spread open and put on the slab with upgradeable hard drives and the like. Now it's its older brother's turn.
Not for the faint of heart or the sausage-fingered, Mark Hoekstra's flash memory mod for all generations of iPod takes out the spinning, battery draining hard drive and replaces it with Compact Flash. Sure, 16GB of solid state goodness isn't cheap, but what's money in the pursuit of glory?
Based on his previous iPod Mini flash-mod, this four day long marathon of a project involved hand soldering 88 connections, all of them in a tiny space. In true entrepreneur spirit, he's using this as a prototype to actually get the things to manufacture. No prices yet, but you can drop him an email if you're interested. Or just to say "Well done".