By ray | October 21, 2008
It’s time to wrap-up my Drobo thoughts and observations after having my Drobo for a couple of months. I first wrote about the Drobo at the end of August. At that time I was seeing erratic performance and was less than enthused about the Drobo. Then at the end of September there was a [...]
Posted in Hardware | Also tagged frustration |
By ray | October 19, 2008
This Trail Log comes as I’m wrapping up a perfect two week vacation. Now I know “staycations” are all the rage due to the economy and gas prices, but to me there’s no better vacation than staying home and deciding what to do when I wake up in the morning (or afternoon, or evening). [...]
Posted in OS Quest Trail Log | Also tagged slicehost |
By ray | October 16, 2008
While the mess of hard drives has been cleaned up on my desk my hard drive addiction has only grown worse. I currently have one 1.5TB drive, nine 1TB drives, eight 500GB drives, a 160GB drive and a 320GB drive that I consider “in use”.
My iMac has an internal 500GB drive along with my 500GB [...]
Posted in Hardware | Also tagged Windows Home Server |
By ray | September 28, 2008
It’s been a couple of weeks since the last trail log so I figured I’d take this time to update some recent posts. My Windows Home Server fiasco is over. I did lose a couple of old movie files. They were old files that I had originally done for testing and pre-dated my backup [...]
Posted in OS Quest Trail Log | Also tagged itunes |
By ray | September 25, 2008
I’d recently written about my first impressions of the Drobo FW800 and was less than impressed with it’s performance. A comment from Tom at Drobo mentioned that a software update was pending that would resolve the issues. Tonight that update arrived. It’s method of announcing itself was a bit problematic though. I was playing a [...]
Posted in Hardware | Tagged drobo |
By ray | September 13, 2008
It’s been a pretty dry couple of month for blog posts so far. But there’s still a few things worth mentioning and rather than a couple small posts I decided to put them all here to make them easier to ignore.
WordPress 2.6.2 was released and I upgraded this site. It’s a security release so considered [...]
