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drobo droboshare network adapter: If you have already plunked down $500 for a Drobo and have other PCs on your network that you'd also like to backup to your Drobo, the $200 DroboShare companion piece is a no-brainer. It's near perfect for small offices in need of a dead simple backup solution, but home...; Tags: Ethernet, Network-attached storage (NAS), NETWORKING, Network technology, Storage, adapter, network adapter, network, Drobo DroboShare; Product reviews 2008-04-15

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Synology Disk Station DS-107+: Up to this point, our network attached storage reviews have focused on consumer-level products that act as simple backup or media-sharing solutions for home users. NAS is but one of the many features found on the Synology Disk Station DS107+, a sophisticated device that holds appeal for home users and...; Tags: Network-attached storage (NAS), Storage, NETWORKING, disk, DS107+, hard drive; Product reviews 2008-05-08
Windows Home Server 'Vail' to get more entertainment hooks: Windows Home Server 'Vail' to get more entertainment hooksReliability has to be the first priorityI attended an evening session on WHS and as one of my friends who attended put it: it's not Windows Home Server, it's Windows Home Backup. Then he amended that to Windows Small Business Backup, because...; Tags: Backups, server, entertainment, Microsoft Windows Home Server, Microsoft Windows, WHS Server, backup; Discussion threads 2008-02-25
Airport Express, holding up the revolution?: Airport Express, holding up the revolution?Exactly!!!What gives? As a reseller, I have been trying NOT to stock the Airport Express with the notion that a new model is right around the corner. They must have ordered a few million more than they could sell and are stuck with channel inventory...; Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Web technology, Time Capsule, Apple Inc., Apple AirPort Express, Drobo, TV, Apple TV; Discussion threads 2008-01-28
Apple's Time Capsule delivers seamless backups for Macs: Apple's Time Capsule delivers seamless backups for MacsFact. Checking.From Apple's web site: "Time Capsule also works great as a wireless hard drive whether you have a Mac or PC. It sets up in a snap, giving you a networked hard drive you can use for storing and sharing any kinds...; Tags: Backups, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Apple Inc., Time Capsule, seamless backup, Apple Time Capsule, Apple Macintosh, backup; Discussion threads 2008-01-16

ZFS beta now on Mac OS X Leopard: ZFS beta now on Mac OS X LeopardYeah, Microsoft hasn't done ANY work with file systems...And people complain about Vista compatibility. You know very well that a new file system, no matter what is going to break legacy applications, and why Microsoft has no choice other to be VERY careful...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, ZFS, beta, Apple Mac OS X Leopard, WinFS, file system, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 7, Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows; Discussion threads 2008-01-09
Cool storage at CES - part 2: After yesterday's post I walked through the rest of CES looking for new data storage - and found some. Lots of flash SSDs, a new idea in safe backups and a new removable hard drive. Cool stuff SSDsEveryone, it seemed, was showing off their...; Tags: Hard Drive, Disk, Performance, Storage, Solid State Disk, USB Flash Drive, USB, iVDR, Robin Harris; Blog posts 2008-01-08
The best Windows storage isn't on Windows: The best Windows storage isn't on WindowsMessage has been deleted.real-world consumersThe only question I have is this: Why does the real-world, end-user or home/personal computer user care?Certainly, corporations and educational/research institutions and possibly government sector types with perpetual libraries of research papers, legal filings, patents, archived copies of old newspapers,...; Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Sun Microsystems Inc., storage, Common Internet File System, Windows Storage, Make IT, OpenSolaris, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2007-11-29
Leopard's Time Machine: Consider the 'bad and ugly' side of storage: Leopard's Time Machine: Consider the 'bad and ugly' side of storageApple is PERFECT and has already thought of thisJust format your Time Machine drive to use ZFS. OS X's implementation of ZFS is far superior to Solaris' and will survive even a total physical failure of the disk.You know, the...; Tags: RAID, SILENT DATA CORRUPTION, Apple Mac OS X, hard drive, Time Machine, Apple Inc., storage; Discussion threads 2007-11-23
Windows Home Server fan club beats me up for asking if WHS is Microsoft's next flop: Literally within minutes of each other (strangely coincidental), I received two e-mails -- one from a colleague and the other from someone who concealed their identity -- that basically told me I was out of line for questioning the chances that Microsoft's Windows Home Server will succeed. My colleague...; Tags: Ars Technica, Microsoft Windows Home Server, Server, Microsoft Corp., WHS, Flamingkittens, Sue, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, David Berlind; Blog posts 2007-10-19
Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week: Here are CNET Reviews' 10 favorite items from the past week, including a blazingly fast Canon SLR, the Drobo "storage robot," a two-room wireless digital audio system and the 2007 Apple MacBook Pro.; Tags: digital audio, Canon Inc., Apple MacBook Pro, Apple MacBook, robot, storage, Apple Inc., photograph, wireless; Image galleries 2007-06-23
News to know: Microsoft patch skeletons; Telepresence; Ubuntu; GDrive: Notable headlines:Ryan Naraine: Skeletons in Microsoft's Patch Day closet.Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Media support in Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn. Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" features.David Berlind Testdrive: Cisco's TelePresence hi-def video conferencing system.Review: Drobo (left).Larry Dignan: Do we really hate Apple and the iPhone? Jason O'Grady: YouTube arrives for Apple TV. Leopard screenies...; Tags: News to know, General; Blog posts 2007-06-21
Drobo: Drobo will let you sleep at night. Drobo will make your headache go away. Drobo will put a smile on your face. Drobo is not a drug. Drobo can affect you in the aforementioned ways, however, if you worry about keeping your troves of digital data safe. Drobo is an...; Tags: Serial ATA, Robots, Microsoft Windows, RAID, Backups, Storage, Drobo; Product reviews 2007-06-19
News to know: Google Gears; Intel V8; Firefox patch; Bill and Steve: Notable headlines:David Berlind: Podcast: â€˜Google Gears' vies to be de facto tech for offline Web apps. Ed Burnette and Marc Orchant.Google kicks offline Web apps into gear. Ryan Stewart:What Google Gears means for Rich Internet Applications and Apollo . O'Reilly Radar: Google releases open source toolkit for offline web apps....; Tags: General, News to know; Blog posts 2007-05-31
Review of Data Robotics' Drobo 'storage robot': Review of Data Robotics' Drobo 'storage robot'Missing?I would think a system like this would come with some serious backup provisions, that seems to be missing.Don't be so hard on yourself George"Last week I gave a fairly harsh review of the Drobo “storage robot” product based on some initial investigation I...; Tags: Robots, Backups, Drobo, storage robot, robot, backup, storage, robotics; Discussion threads 2007-05-30
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.Â 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.Â I...; Tags: Desktop, Hardware, Networking, Servers, Storage; Blog posts 2007-05-30
Why home RAID won't fly: Why home RAID won't flyRight onA home server is a silly concept. Just backup your stuff easily and cheaply on an external hard disk in a USB casing. 500 GB storage for about $ 150.To top it off: this is a much "greener" solution as well... You only have to...; Tags: Storage, Backups, home server, RAID, backup; Discussion threads 2007-05-29
Why home RAID won't fly: Fellow ZDnet blogger George Ou posted this morning on Why dumb-downed no-RAID storage is bad for consumers. With all due respect, George couldn't be more wrong. RAID doesn't solve the home storage problem and its usability stinks. The vendors who are backing off from selling or promoting RAID in the...; Tags: Marketing, RAID; Blog posts 2007-05-29
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.Â Why should consumers have to choose between losing Desperate House Wives...; Tags: Consumer electronics, Desktop, Hardware, Networking, Servers, Storage; Blog posts 2007-05-29
Is the Drobo 'storage robot' fact or myth?: Is the Drobo 'storage robot' fact or myth?Thanks, George!I've seen the "magic" ads myself and I wondered greatly how (or if) they did that. Looks like it's somwhat smoke and mirrors, but it still seems the ease and flexibility are good. One correction, though, is that when last...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, Cyberthreats, RAID, robot, Drobo, ZFS, software, storage; Discussion threads 2007-05-25