Technology and Life
I’ve had a Drobo Elite in my possession for way too long, and I would like to post this brief explanation of why I haven’t posted any test results yet. A few reasons actually… here we go. 1. Our test environment uses an HP ProCurve switch that claims can do etherchannel or port trunking. Unfortunately […]
After dredging around looking for Visio Stencils I found the official post, then a broken link, and then finally a working link from Technodrone website. The files themselves are hosted on mediasite which is a pretty obnoxious with pop-ups and seizure inducing ads. Well, I’m reposting them here for an easy download: VMware-Stencil1-vSphere.zip VMware-Stencil2-vSphere.zip
I’ve been using a car holder to place my iPhone in view while driving, which allows me to use the GPS and mapping capabilities safely. Trying to eek out as much value as I can, ya know. The only trouble is at night the maps can be very bright – even with the backlight turned […]
My original post included a quick and dirty test on raw hard drive performance using HDTach to give me an idea of what I was working with with my new DroboPro. Of course true to any benchmarking test – there are so many metrics that can be tested that may be able to give me […]
Recently I was able to purchase and test two Drobo storage appliances. A DroboS with five disks and a DroboPro with eight disks. All the disks are the same size, speed, and manufacturer. The specs are listed further below for your consumption. The DroboS is attached via USB 2.0 to my desktop workstation – a […]