Intel® NAS Performance Toolkit

The Intel® NAS Performance Toolkit (NASPT) is a file system exerciser and analysis tool designed to enable direct measurement of home network attached storage (NAS) performance. Designed to emulate the behavior of an actual application, NASPT uses a set of real world workload traces gathered from typical digital home applications. Traces of high definition video playback and recording, office productivity applications, video rendering/content creation and more provide a broad range of different application behaviors. With the latest version of NASPT, users may even add their own custom traces. NASPT reproduces the file system traffic recorded in these traces onto whatever storage solution the user provides, records the system response, and reports a rich variety of performance information. Continue reading “Intel® NAS Performance Toolkit”

Freemind

FreeMind – free mind mapping software

FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java. The recent development has hopefully turned it into high productivity tool. We are proud that the operation and navigation of FreeMind is faster than that of MindManager because of one-click "fold / unfold" and "follow link" operations.

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iometer speed tester

As the Iometer User’s Guide says, Iometer is an I/O subsystem measurement and characterization tool for single and clustered systems. It was originally developed by the Intel Corporation and announced at the Intel Developers Forum (IDF) on February 17, 1998 – since then it got wide spread within the industry.

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How to Get a Custom HTML Header on a YouTube Channel

YouTube rewards users that upload popular original content with the opportunity to join the YouTube Partner program. Partners receive compensation for ads placed on their channel and gain the ability to add a custom HTML header to the channel. Only Partners can add HTML headers to a channel, so you must sign up for the program before uploading your banner.

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