Wisetrips Travel Blog

With thousands of photos stored on my server, I needed more speed in Adobe  Lightroom , Adobe Photoshop, and Sony Vegas. Previously, I ran software RAID-5 with 6 Hitachi 4TB hard disks, yielding 18TB of usable capacity. Disk performance was quite decent for reads - 380-500 MB/sec, but relatively poor for writes (as most software raid servers are) at 70 MB/sec using ATTO benchmarks. This made Lightroom's photo editing relat…

Today, I made an appointment to purchase my leased 2011 Audi Q5 2.0T sports utility vehicle at Audi of Stevens Creek . As my 3-year lease was expiring, I decided that the value of my car was much greater than the lease-purchase price. When I arrived at 12:00 p.m. for my appointment, I planned to drop off the check, sign some paperwork, and be on my way. Most of my other used vehicles were purchased th…

Today, we watched  Elysium  at the local AMC Saratoga Movie Theater. The movie had an interesting take on the future, where all the rich people live off the Earth, on the space station "Elysium," and all the poor, wretched souls live on Earth, suffering from poor health care, crime, and unemployment. The movie was enjoyable but not profound, and did not develop characters well. However, I still enjoyed it, and …