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Iomega Graduates and Goes to Work with the ix12-300r

May 4, 2010 By Stephen Leave a Comment

EMC's Iomega unit today released the 12-drive rack-mount storage product we have all been waiting for. It was never a question of whether Iomega could produce such a beast: The EMC LifeLine software and Iomega hardware were definitely up for it. The question was always if EMC would direct Iomega to fill the gaping hole in their storage lineup between the 4-drive ix4-200r and … [Read more...] about Iomega Graduates and Goes to Work with the ix12-300r

Thin Provisioning and Cloud Storage: My Interop 2010 Topics

March 16, 2010 By Stephen Leave a Comment

I'm pleased to be heading back to Interop this spring with two sessions on enterprise storage. Although significantly changed from the old "Networld + Interop" days, the event is enjoyable and technical, with many interesting sessions and speakers. And the New York show at least had plenty of end user attendees! Interop Las Vegas is April 25-29, 2010, and registration … [Read more...] about Thin Provisioning and Cloud Storage: My Interop 2010 Topics

Drobo Adding 4K Drive Support – What About Everyone Else?

January 28, 2010 By Stephen 3 Comments

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the new generation of hard disk drives that use 4K sectors rather than the historic 512 byte size. As I noted in that piece, although PC and Mac users with recent OS versions had nothing to fear from these, embedded devices like the TiVo and Drobo I use and love might not be compatible. I tried reaching out to these vendors, but only one has … [Read more...] about Drobo Adding 4K Drive Support – What About Everyone Else?

The Great Tech Field Day Drobo Sale!

December 17, 2009 By Stephen Leave a Comment

Regular readers of the Pack Rat blog know I love my Drobo. I'm not the only one - the Gestalt IT Tech Field Day delegates spilled a ton of virtual ink over the Drobo, and their Drobo videos are definitely worth watching! But the Drobo is a bit pricey, especially the newly-released Drobo S and Drobo Elite models. Happily, I offer a solution: Data Robotics was kind enough to … [Read more...] about The Great Tech Field Day Drobo Sale!

Drobo: First Impressions

September 4, 2009 By Stephen 8 Comments

With one of my two Maxtor Personal Storage 3200 USB drives starting to squeal, I needed a new home storage solution. Although the Drobo "storage robot", essentially a friendly home RAID enclosure, has long impressed me, it never fit my laptop-oriented lifestyle. With most of my data on the biggest disks I could cram into my MacBook Pro, it was hard to justify the expense of a … [Read more...] about Drobo: First Impressions

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