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- Drobo unveils NAS add-on at MacWorld
- Last week, while I was at CES, I had the chance to talk with Data Robotics, Inc. CEO and co-founder Geoff Barrall about a new product the company was planning to announce at MacWorld this week. Today, the company officially announced a hardware add-on called DroboShare that...
- Tags: NAS, Macworld, Drobo, Drobo Share, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage, Hardware, Shawn Morton
- Blog posts 2008-01-14
- Dealing with data overload at home
- For the past several years, I have been accumulating digital media and other data and a pretty ridiculous rate. From digital photos to home video to MP3s to e-mail archives, I was quickly getting swamped with data. A few months ago, I decided to do something about it. The big...
- Tags: Home Video, PC, Digital Photograph, Data, Backup, Microsoft Windows Home Server, Photograph, Drobo, WHS, Mozy, Mozy Client, Backups, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Shawn Morton
- Blog posts 2007-10-01
- Gear I love: Drobo
- Sure, the iPhone has grabbed all of the gadget hype over the past 6 months; however, there is another device that I like just as much. Meet Drobo, the world's first data robot.That's the Drobo on the left with that other device on the right. ZDNet's Robin Harris called...
- Tags: Storage, Gadgets
- Blog posts 2007-07-16
- Gear I love: Drobo
- My Current Storage SolutionCurrently I store my family's data on the Windows Home Server RC1 release, with a backup on a USB hard drive. However, I'm looking into a solution that will be more friendly towards my Apple computers and not leave .DS_Store files all over the shares, as...
- Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Backups, Operating systems, brian.mills@..., WHS, RC1, Windows Home Server RC1, Drobo, storage
- Discussion threads 2007-07-17
- Review of Data Robotics' Drobo 'storage robot'
- Last week I gave a fairly harsh review of the Drobo "storage robot" product based on some initial investigation I did. I concluded that while it's possible to do some level of hard drive mixing, it really wasn't worth it since you didn't get meaningful capacity out of it. I...
- Tags: Storage, Servers, Networking, Hardware, Desktop
- Blog posts 2007-05-30
- Is the Drobo 'storage robot' fact or myth?
- There's a new personal storage device that's been getting some rave reviews lately. The company is Data Robotics and they sell a device called the "Drobo" which is a USB 2.0 connected device that houses 4 hot-swappable SATA hard drives. Many online gadget reviewers, colleagues, and friends of mine were...
- Tags: Storage, Hardware, Consumer electronics
- Blog posts 2007-05-25
- Is the Drobo 'storage robot' fact or myth?
- Can't be shared on a network??"The USB interface also means that the Drobo cannot be shared by multiple computers on a network without a PC acting as a server and it can only be attached to one computer at a time."This statement isn't *exactly* true is it? For example,...
- Tags: Home networking, Desktops, PRODUCTIVITY, robot, storage, jtbse@..., Linksys NSLU2, Drobo, PC
- Discussion threads 2007-05-25
Additional Resources
- Disks size in RAID 5
- Hi, should all the 5 disks present in Raid 5 server configuration have the same size. thanks,Yes.they should be the same size, else the controller will treat them all like they are the size of the smallest, and you'll have wasted space.DROBVOIf you have a need to not use the...
- Tags: RAID, imranhabeeb@..., same size, RAID 5, disk
- Discussion threads 2007-08-21
- What is Practical Gadgetry?
- Practical Gadgetry is our new blog about gadgets and consumer electronics. Unlike other gadget blogs, we will be taking a more real-world approach by providing reviews that show you what it is like to live with these devices. We aren't going to play with something for a few hours and...
- Tags: Gadgets
- Blog posts 2007-07-09
- A quick introduction
- Just wanted to do a quick introduction since most people on the site only know me by my site alias "sMoRTy71."By day, I am the site manager for TechRepublic; however, I have also taken on the challenge of writing "Practical Gadgetry" because I love my employer... 's access to review...
- Tags: Media PCs, Home theater, Gadgets
- Blog posts 2007-07-10
- Why dumb-downed no-RAID storage is bad for consumers
- Data storage is a rapidly expanding area of consumer electronics because people have growing amounts of data at home along with the fact that they have more than one computer and devices that need to access the same data. Why should consumers have to choose between losing Desperate House Wives...
- Tags: Storage, Servers, Networking, Hardware, Desktop, Consumer electronics
- Blog posts 2007-05-29
- 8 reasons why most gadgets suck
- My friend Jeremy Toeman, a consumer electronics veteran who has brought some excellent products to market including the Slingbox and the Drobo, has a great post on his blog titled "8 reasons why most gadgets suck." Here are his top 3 reasons: "They are...
- Tags: Reason, Corporate Governance, VOIP, Digital Music, Digital Media, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Telecommunications, Networking, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Shawn Morton
- Blog posts 2007-10-16
- Solving the network storage dilemma
- Ive had some friends and readers ask me the same question about what to do about the problem of storage in the home and how do you make it accessible to every computer or set-top box in the house on the internal network. Before I begin to answer that...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, Virtualization, Storage, Servers, Networking, Hardware, Fun Stuff, Energy efficiency, Desktop
- Blog posts 2007-05-09
- Two weeks with the Eye-Fi wireless SD card
- I love taking digital photos; however, I hate the process of transferring them to my PC. I am constantly searching for the cable to connect the camera to my PC. And with more than one person in our house using the camera, it is very easy for photos to...
- Tags: Card, PC, SD Card, Photograph, Camera, Wireless, Eye-Fi, Dongle, Shawn Morton
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
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