I use a 4-bay Drobo (2nd generation) to backup my iMac’s hard drive and to archive stuff which doesn’t need to be permanently on the computer anymore. The Drobo is marketed as an easy-to-use system which will protect you against data loss due to its...
Something is definitely not right with my technological karma. The D800 hassle, a week ago our 3.5-year old TV went dead and a few days ago my praised Drobo refused to mount in the Finder. A Drobo, for everyone who is not familiar with it, is a plug-and-play RAID...
In a previous post I outlined the importance of backing up your files and how I personally deal with it. Short recap – My main backup system is a Drobo, which is a plug & play RAID system with four harddrives. On the Drobo I have two partitions. One is for...
Backing up your data is essential and you are foolish if you do not do so. Harddrives can fail at any given time (after all, it’s a piece of technology and won’t last forever), CDs can be unreadable after some years. Coping with the huge amount of data...