I’ve gotten off to a slow start in my evaluation of the DroboElite, for the most part due to an over-busy work and home schedule. The DroboElite was the flagship until the recent release of the DroboPro FS (NAS version of the DroboElite), although one can still argue that an iSCSI Drobo is pretty much… Read More »
Oracle’s been busy re-shaping their world, and the world of their acquired business units. Phillip Jaenke (@RootWyrm on Twitter) has a lot of opinions, this time around he’s pieced together some compelling evidence that argues that Oracle doesn’t intend on continuing development (or development that matters, anyhow) on the SPARC platform. http://rootwyrm.us.to/2010/10/sparc-the-future-that-wasnt-and-isnt/ What bothers me… Read More »
A friend (and past colleague) has started commenting on life… he’s what everyone else might call a “stroke survivor” but he prefers “victor”. I agree with his outlook. Check it out his latest post: http://strokevictor.wordpress.com/2010/10/11/prius-the-new-vw-van/
Took some pictures of the “unboxing” last night. The Drobo arrives in a “Plain Brown Wrapper”. I guess I was expecting more, but then again, this is supposed to be business equipment, not consumer, so no worries! But wait: what’s this?
It’s my birthday and I’m playing with toys! Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid Drive First, I just bought a Seagate Momentus XT 500GB Solid State Hybrid Drive. This drive adds 4GB of NAND Flash to act as an intelligent read cache to existing high density 500GB 7200 spindle-based technology. I am very excited to be dropping… Read More »