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Gotta Get a Drobo
brian on 2008.07.08
at 08:24 pmHave you heard about the Drobo ? I’ve thought it was a wonderful idea for a long time: A little box in which you place however many hard drives you have, in whatever capacity they may be, and Drobo treats them like a RAID 1 & 5 simultaneously.
If anyone out there isn’t geeky enough to know a RAID allows you to store data in multiple places in case of drive failure. The group of disks acts as if it’s one simple drive on your computer.
However, RAIDs have their drawbacks. The main one being maintenance. Set up is a bear and recovery from a disk failure is tough. Your disks need to be matched in capacity. Drobo claims to have fixed all this. Drive fail? All your data is still available. Two disks may even be able to fail and you could still be up and running. Drobo filled up? Eject your smallest disk and insert a larger one. Drobo will rearrange. Ejecting is super easy. An array of lights tell you disk status and capacity status.
Very cool. And until today, I wouldn’t want one because it was USB 2.0 only. I’m no fan of USB.
Today, Drobo heard me and released a new version with both USB 2.0 and Firewire 800. Nice. Wish granted.
Except I don’t have $500 for an empty one. Maybe some day soon.
Posted in: Technology · Hardware
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WTF is Twitter?
brian on 2008.07.08
at 06:40 pmI haven’t posted about Twitter in a while. I think Twitter posts make, like, half of my content on this blog over the last calendar year. Clearly, I can only post consistently if I talk about Twitter.
That’s why I’m pleased to show you WTFisTwitter.com
The problem: try explaining Twitter to a non-geek family member. OK, now try to do that in a sentence or two! Did they understand after either take?
WTFisTwitter is short videos of people trying to explain what Twitter is.
BTW, none of these explanations will remotely help you explain to someone what Twitter is. But they’re entertaining.
(via Whitney)
Posted in: Web
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