Buy Propecia No Rx, Propecia Finasteride * Online Without Prescription Using Paypal

My Drobo: A few months in...

tmoore — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 13:43:00 +0000

Well, I've had my drobo for a while now. I really have no complaints on the hardware; it works as expected and works well. I do have issues, however.

My first issue is my own behavior. I sometimes fail to RTFM. In this case, it was the part of the manual on formatting. I simply formatted the drobo from Disk Utilities. If I had RTFM, I would have learned that the standard format was for 2 TB volumes - if you stick more available space in the system, you'd get multiple volumes. The drobo can be formatted to anticipate a volume of 16 TB, which would have made more sense to me. The drawback to this format is slower boot times, but I'm okay with that. In any case, it's simply a matter of reformatting the drobo and start over. Unfortunately, I have the older USB 2.0 drobo and offloading the data took at least a day (and some struggling to find the disk space). Now, the drobo is reformatted and I've started the process of moving all the data back! ugh! take my advice, if you get a drobo, RTFM.

The Drobo so far

tmoore — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:17:00 +0000

With the Drobo up and running, I'm feeling a little safer. Right now, I have about 2 TB of disk space, which gives me just under 1 TB of available disk space. Of that space, I've used about half.

Overall, I'm very happy with the system. The largest drawback in this version of the Drobo is the USB 2. USB 2 is painfully slow compared to Firewire and SATA. However, in the way I'm using the system, the slow speed is tolerable.

Another test of my backup strategy

tmoore — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 14:57:00 +0000

It happened again! I had a hard drive crash. This time, the drive was a Seagate 1 TB drive about 60% full.

So what was my backup strategy and did it work?

I have three basic methods of backing up:

1. Time Machine - I use time machine to manage the backups of my laptop.
2. Backup to DVD - This method I was hoping to end. It's time consuming and hard to use with large groups of files. However, this has been relatively reliable.
3. Drive "mirroring" - Using tools such as rsync to maintain a second copy of a hard drive.