Drobo Sold on eBay for $660 If you’ve been following along, you might remember that I finally pulled the plug on our Drobo network attached storage (NAS). I replaced it with a second Synology because I worried about depending on such old technology. Drobo filed for bankruptcy earlier this year, and they haven’t had anything […]
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NC #910 I’m Still Using It, Drobo Died Again, Octogenarian Talks 1Password, Security Bits
Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, October 16, 2022, and this is show number 910. mp3 download If you’re hearing this before 5 PM Pacific Time on Sunday, then you’ll hopefully realize that there’s […]
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The Day the Drobo Died … Again
A Walk Down Memory Lane Over the years I’ve regaled you with tales of our various network-attached storage (NAS) devices. Steve and I use our NAS for storing sensitive financial data that we don’t want to be stored in the cloud, along with hosting our PLEX video library Steve has ripped from our DVD/Blu-Ray collection […]
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Synology Storage Part II – OWC RAID Enclosure
OWC RAID Enclosure Next to Synology & Drobo I recently walked you through the process Steve and I went through to deal with a Synology Disk Station that was running out of space. I ended the story by explaining that I pulled two of the 4TB drives, replaced them with 8TB drives, which gained me […]
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Making Progress Learning the Basics of Synology
As I mentioned a while ago, my aged Drobo 5N died after many years of good service. The 5N, for the last few years, had the role of backup NAS to the newer Drobo 5N2. When the 5N died, I did what I’ve been itching to do for quite some time – I bought a […]
Continue readingMore TagNC #789 Loopback, Twelve South Curve, The Levelator is Back, Drobo Died & Synology Joined the Family
Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, June 21, 2020, and this is show number 789. Well things are looking pretty good for the show next week for Steve and my little holiday where we’re […]
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Dead Drobo from Dashboard Have you noticed in the last few years, new gadgets and even software don’t seem all that different? I went from an iPhone X to an XS and couldn’t tell the difference after about a day. I went from the Apple Watch Series 4 to Series 5 and only noticed my […]
Continue readingMore TagNC #690 Sweet Setup Love for Keep It and Useful Workflow, Drobo Migration, Mind Map Productivity, Security Bits
The Sweet Setup shows some love for Keep It and has a fantastic Workflow to add an iPhone X frame to screenshots. I’ll tell you about the (disappointing but ultimately successful) Great Drobo Migration of 2018. I promised the audio from my talk at Macstock Expo entitled “Mind Map Your Way to Productivity” and it’s […]
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A few months ago I told you about my tests of the new Drobo 5N2 vs the previous 5N model. They call it the 5N2 because it’s supposed to be twice as fast as the 5N. One of the features to allow it to go so much faster was the ability to use port aggregation, […]
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It’s a nice long show but only a few topics this week. We’ll start with a walk through what I learned testing the Drobo 5N2 network attached storage. It’s not so much about the Drobo itself but more about the technologies involved. Then we’ll talk about the new Wyze Cam Pan $30 security camera. Finally […]
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