Cool, are you getting the firewire one or the older one? Also if you go to
drobo.com/macbreak you can get a discount.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jane Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:50 AM
Subject: Re: Connecting multiple computers to one hard drive
The drobo drive installation process is very simple, you just need to
point
the drive up and the connectors facing the bay, and then just push it in
until it clicks.
However, the biggest problem with the drobo is that beyond their dashboard
software, the only other way to tell anything about drive status is via
LED
lights on the device itself. Since the drobo has a redundant storage
format,
it's very important to keep track of the failing hard drives in order to
switch them out. Even though drobo dashboard is available for free, I need
to use it with a drobo to find out if the interface is accessible,
unfortunately. If you send me a reminder in a week or so, I can check out
how well it works with voiceover.
Lastly, I do know that even if drobo dashboard were fairly unusable, that
they do have a setting where you can set it up to email you with drive
issues, as a last resort.
cheers,
jane
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 9:38 PM, VaShaun Jones
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
Please keep me informed I want to know about the accessibility of the
drive
bays and installation.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jane Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 11:00 PM
Subject: Re: Connecting multiple computers to one hard drive
I have a drobo on order coming soon. It's insanely expensive, but it's
going
to be cheaper than building a dedicated computer to do the same thing.
Around $650 diskless for the new drobo and the droboshare networking
device,
I have a bunch of 750gb drives to put in there.
cheers,
jane
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 8:22 AM, VaShaun Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>wrote:
I want the DroBo especially since it just got upgraded to firewire.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jane Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X
by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 5:37 AM
Subject: Re: Connecting multiple computers to one hard drive
Hi Alex,
That's not necessarily true. The general term for that is a NAS
(network
attached storage), and more devices than the airport networking
hardware
from Apple support that type of usage. It ranges from a single hard
drive
NAS device (like the Western Digital MyBook World Edition) to very
expensive
redundant storage like the Drobo with a device called DroboShare (both
together are about $4-700 depending on which model you buy, BEFORE
hard
drives!). And if you have a computer to spare, you can set up your
computer
to share that hard drive over the network to others, but that computer
would
have to be on every time you'd want to use it on another.
Also, Apple does sell a single device called Time Capsule that
combines
the
Airport networking hardware with a hard drive, but in my opinion it's
sort
of overpriced and inconvenient if the hard drive ever fails.
cheers,
jane
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 8:09 PM, Alex Jurgensen` <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>wrote:
Hi,
You could actually share it over the network by attaching it via USB
2.0 to an Airport express, Airport extreeme or one of the computers
on
the network. If using the third option, it is possible to use
firewire. I recommend using the airport method. It worked really well
for me.
Thanks for listening,
Alex,
