https://davenelson.com/tags/hardware/ Recent content in Hardware on Dave Nelson https://davenelson.com/%3Clink%20or%20path%20of%20image%20for%20opengraph,%20twitter-cards%3E https://davenelson.com/%3Clink%20or%20path%20of%20image%20for%20opengraph,%20twitter-cards%3E Hugo en Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:00:50 +0000 https://davenelson.com/drobo-first-impressions/ Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:00:50 +0000 https://davenelson.com/drobo-first-impressions/ <p>I purchased a Drobo from Newegg.com and three days later the UPS man dropped it off at my door. My previous post to the blog outlines the reasons why I chose the Drobo as a storage solution.</p> <p>Setup was very easy, the top of the box full of cables shows the three steps to getting started and it really is that easy.</p> <ol> <li>I took the Drobo out of the box</li> <li>Removed the packaging material</li> <li>Inserted 4 Samsung 1TB hard drives</li> <li>Put the Drobo on my desk</li> <li>Plugged in the Firewire 800 cable</li> <li>Inserted the Drobo disc and installed the Drobo Dashboard</li> <li>Plugged in the power cable to the Drobo</li> <li>Here began my only snag, the Drobo appeared to go into a loop of restarting which it did not recover from. So unplugged the Firewire cable and then the power cable and restarted the computer. Once the computer cam back up I plugged in the Firewire cable and then the power cable and the Drobo jumped to life.</li> <li>The computer warned about the drive being unreadable and the Drobo began the process of walking me through partitioning and formatting the drive.</li> <li>I used a 16TB partition and HFS+ formatting. It was done in about 5 minutes and popped up on my desktop just like any external hard drive would.</li> <li>I immediately began copying my music library to the Drobo from an external USB drive</li> </ol> <p>This really is an amazing device; I was able to start using it within 15 minutes of opening the box. It is almost invincible on my desk; its sleek black case and solid construction give me confidence. Not having to install rails on the individual drives is also a plus.</p> https://davenelson.com/feeling-drooby/ Sun, 04 Jan 2009 01:23:05 +0000 https://davenelson.com/feeling-drooby/ <p>I believe I first heard about the Drobo on This Week in Tech (TWiT) with Leo Laporte, but it may have been on This Week in Photography (TWiP) which is a podcast with members who are also on TWiT, but it is the photographers on TWiP that really convinced me that the Drobo is worth its price.</p> <p>I have always belived in making regular backups, for years I used CDs and then DVDs to backup my photos, documents, music, and all work related files. I even went as far as making three sets of discs, 1 for the office, one at home, and one at my parents house. My parents thought it was funny that I was giving them stacks of 20 or more DVDs every couple months.</p>