Why I Like Drobo
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Terabyte home on 30. Nov, 2007 | View Comments
There has been lots of talk about the Data Robotics (aka Drobo) SOHO “storage robot”
– whoever they have doing their marketing deserves a raise! When I first heard about it, I was pretty puzzled – Why care about yet another storage enclosure, especially an overly expensive one that doesn’t even have NAS features? [...]
Terabytes on the Cheap
Posted by Stephen in Personal, Terabyte home on 29. Nov, 2007 | View Comments
Meet the Maxtor Personal Storage 3200. It’s a cheap, quick, and dirty way to add storage to your PC, and it’s ilk is becoming the surprise hit of the holiday season, lifting the stock of Seagate and Western Digital, and making Hitachi, LaCie and others fight for a piece of the market.
I’ve bought two [...]
Optimus Maximus: It’s Beyond This Keyboard-Head
Posted by Stephen in Computer history, Personal, Terabyte home on 28. Nov, 2007 | View Comments
Have you heard of the Optimus Maximus yet? It’s the ultimate computer keyboard (no kidding!), it costs $1500 (no, really, I’m serious!), and I’m not interested (even though I’m a keyboard nut).
First, an introduction to the Maximus: It’s a 113-key PC keyboard. But each key is actually a mini OLED display, [...]
Import your old Outlook/Express PSTs to Gmail
Posted by Stephen in Personal, Terabyte home on 26. Nov, 2007 | View Comments
Like so many other people, I’ve switched my personal email use over to Gmail. In fact, I did it back in mid-2005, redirecting my personal address on my private fosketts.net domain from Dreamhost’s POP mail service to my gmail account. I’ve been happy with it ever since, but my old mail still sat [...]
Toot toot: iSCSI and Fibre Channel Integration
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Personal on 13. Nov, 2007 | View Comments
Another week, another excellent TechTarget tech tutorial by my buddy, Stephen Bigelow. This time it’s on iSCSI and Fibre Channel Integration, and once again that Stephen Foskett guy is quoted. What a smarty-pants!Â
Another Roku Soundbridge
Posted by Stephen in Personal, Terabyte home on 03. Nov, 2007 | View Comments
So I loved the original Roku Soundbridge I bought for the main stereo so much that I couldn’t resist buying a second one when I spotted it on clearance at Best Buy. Now I’ve got one in my office, too.
I wonder why they decided to clear it out. It was brand new, and [...]
