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Puertos traseros de Imac. Se puede ver
Conector salida de audio
Conector entrada de audio
Tres usb 2.0
2 Firewire 400
Gigabit ethernet
Conector DVI para conectar pantalla externa
Beacon 600LE By IMG Light LED DESK LAMP
Beacon 600LE by IMG Lighting is 600 lumen, limited edition series LED desk lamp. Beacon 600LE upgrades over the standard Beacon 600 includes special backlighting LEDs for the the lamp’s controls and a semi-opaque shell that improved ambient glow lighting. Beacon 600LE is available only in special semi-opaque Arctic White.
Beacon by IMG Lighting employs clean, stress free LED lighting technology that eliminates the harsh whites of fluorescent and the yellow glare of incandescent bulbs. Beacon Desk Lamps improves worker productivity with clear, crisp, ultra bright illumination that is ideal for reading, computer lighting and office tasks. Employing power saving technology, Beacon is an environmental friendly lamp that uses premium OSRAM 50,000 hour LEDs. These ultra long lasting LEDs require a fraction of energy that traditional lamps use. Beacon is a lamp that pays for itself many times over with the money saved from reduced energy costs and no more bulbs to replace.
Beacon contains dual cool white and warm white LEDs for a superior temperature color range, and a proprietary iris that focuses light to the work surface. Moreover, we exclusively use premium OSRAM LEDs in our products to ensure the highest quality color rendering and lighting sharpness. Our high-efficiency and ultra-bright LED lamps are affordably priced to bring environmentally friendly LED lighting products to the mainstream market. We are absolutely certain there are no other LED Table Lamp on the market today that can match our performance specifications at our price.
IMG Lighting’s exceptional attention to appealing design, superior performance, technical innovation, reliability and durability ensure that our products always meet the highest standards. IMG Lighting lamps are Underwriters Laboratories Listed LED Desk Lamp and conforms to rigorous industry standards as verified by Underwriters Laboratories third-party testing.
Beacon 600LE Specifications
Underwriters Laboratories Listed
LED back lit controls
Semi-opaque shell for ambient glow
Dual warm and cool white LED
Lumens: 600 Lumens
Source Life: Rated for over 50,000 hours
Weight: 2000 grams / 4.4 pounds
Dimension: 240mm × 240mm × 544mm
9.5in x 9.5in x 21.5in
Color Temperature: 3500k - 6000k
Fixture Efficacy: 70-80 Lm/W +/- 5Lm/W
Macbook Pro
2.7GHz dual-core Intel Core i7 processor
500GB 5400-rpm hard drive
Intel HD Graphics 3000 with 384MB DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory
LaCie FireWire Speakers
LaCie FireWire Speakers take advantage of FireWire 400's inherent superiority as an audio connection. Conventional speakers attached to a headphone jack must contend with noise distortion from the circuitry within the computer. USB speakers vie for limited bandwidth and power, having to share the bus with the keyboard, mouse and other peripherals. And while other portable speaker manufacturers increase treble or bass to simulate better sound, LaCie FireWire Speakers rely on 8-watt minimum audio output for true sound fidelity. Sound can be tuned to individual preference within iTunes®, Winamp or whatever the user’s chosen audio/video application.
With no factory remote battery setup by Leaf/Phase One, I was forced to figure out a way to remotely power my Leaf Aptus 22 in order to use it with my Hasselblad 553 ELX body.
The 553 ELX has an auto-winder, and therefore has an integrated battery pack on the bottom of the body which extends back far enough to interfere with the Aptus battery.
Without making this battery pack, the only option was tethered shooting, or mounting the back sideways (portrait mode). Lame.
Shown (from the top-left) is: the battery charger (with a fast & slow charging mode) altered to connect to the battery pack, custom 12V 2700mAh NiMH battery pack, right-angle IEEE 1394 (FireWire) to DC barrel jack adapter (Leaf brand), & custom power cable (battery pack plug to DC connector)
If you're interested in purchasing a battery pack setup like this, message me. They're about $260 (+ shipping) as shown, but I can optionally make them with larger battery packs for even more shooting time (as it is, that pack in the photo holds more juice than the normal Leaf battery), differently shaped battery pack (if you prefer short & stocky instead of flat & long, for example), longer cables, coiled cables, differently colored cable shrink wrap, etc. We can work it out, it's all custom stuff anyway.
This pro surfer dude, who's name I did not get, was wearing clothes from LinkSoul as was Chuy Reyna to show that they can go straight from the golf course to the beach, or something like that. : )
Well numerous people have reported that they are unable to mount their G4 iBooks (in target disk mode) onto their New 24" iMac (Aluminum) Desktops. This is according to the Apple Support Forum. I witnessed the same thing when I tried to mount mine as well.
HOWEVER... I just finished importing Music, Photos, Movies, and Documents onto my new iMac via Firewire using Target Disk Mode and here is what I did:
1. Create a folder called "transfer" on iMac desktop.
2. Connect firewire cable from iMac to iBook and start iMac in Target Disk Mode.
3. Once the iMac disk mounts on the iBook locate the files you want to transfer. I recommend exporting your iPhoto library to a folder first. File-->Export
4. Copy the selected files to the "transfer" folder that was created on the iMac Disk.
5. Eject iMac Disk once complete.
6. Restart iMac and open up iPhoto and select File-->Import to Library and map to the "transfer" folder where your exported iPhoto library is located.
7. Do the same with iTunes, Documents and then Movies.
These are the steps that I used and everything seems to be fine and accounted for on my new machine. Good Luck, and I hope this will help someone until Apple gets this fixed...
So, here's the iMac I do all my creations on, including www.chicagoscooterclub.com. (not the hosting mind you) and my office. It may seem cluttered, and unorganized, but to me everything is in order, wires are in their proper place and managed. As you can see I like gadgets, some of which are just sitting on the shelf waiting to be used again or shared with friends.
In the spirit of those find the objects in the picture games, I'm not going to describe each item but will tell you there are 3 Scooters, 1 Mr. T pocket Voice, a troll, and a shotgun for taking out Zombies when on duty with S.P.A.Z. Can you find them all?
I will tell you this, cause it is the FAQ. The 3 blue LEDs are my daisy chained FireWire 800 drives each with 2TB for a total of 6. 1 is used as a Final Cut Scratch, another extends Time Machine and replicates the data on the 3rd which holds images, video, and other media. The drives are Western Digital Caviar Green WD20EADS and the Enclosures are Rosewill RX81-MP Series.
Seriously though, if you REALLY what to know what's what just ask here or email me.
Also, first person to name the currently popular TV show that this shelf unit can be seen in wins a CSC T-shirt. (yes, the one under The Police picture)
This is the first upload with my brand new computer! My aging Powerbook G4 was wobbling on its last legs, so after finally selling ye olde Ford Escort I took that money straight to my local Mac dealer and put it toward a new 27-inch iMac. (Eeeee!) It is so lovely, but...
(1) after using firewire to transfer my old files to the new computer I can't seem to access them from my new profile -- only from a clone of my old one;
(2) iTunes won't recognize any of the music I purchased from the iTunes store, only the stuff I've imported from my CD's; and
(3) I can't get my tablet to talk to the new computer and my wrist is killing me from using a regular (okay, magic) mouse. Sooo frustrating!
The good news is that this photo was taken on a fantastic hike up Mount Lady MacDonald on a gorgeous, sunny February day last winter. The view is overlooking the town of Canmore, AB. We ascended over 900m of elevation relatively quickly, and tiptoed our way back down the icy slope which, I swear, was twice as steep on the way down! Strangely, our weather's been so cold and wet this year that I did ten times more hiking in the winter than I've gotten in this summer. I hope that's about to change!
Back to this arrangement - still look the best
2016 Simplified 4-ways Active System
1. Mac Mini mid 2011 running ChannelD Pure Music 3 as player and crossover control software
2. TC Electronic Studio Konnekt 48 which all output opamp have been replaced running as preamp, 4-way active crossover via Firewire 1394 protocol.
3. 845SE mono block amplifier driving JBL2235H for 20Hz-80Hz
4. 2A3SE amplifier driving Altec 414B for 80Hz-768Hz
5. 345SE amplifier driving Altec 288D + Altec 511E horn for 768Hz-8kHz
6. CV4055 PP amplifier driving Fostex T925 horn tweeter for 8kHz-20kHz
My work-day... Today's pretty slow and boring. :/
Edit: Interesting note, everyone in that chat window (as in everyone I was talking to) works for Apple, except for the "beg51" one... He just wishes he worked there. :D
Other work-time screenshots from Apple:
Ben pretending he's Steve Jobs
Eric Schmidt (Google CEO) joins Apple board of directors
My Apple badge (not a screenshot, but fun nonetheless)
Mountain Dew bottlecap stack (also not a screenshot, but very slackerish at work... it was slow!)
Smoke break shenanigans (also not a screencap, but funny)
My eMac at Apple, and part of my desktop
You like this? Then Digg this shit, son! :D
Edit: 05/10/2007 - Somewhere around 2pm today, Ira SomethingOrOther, from Apple (who did not even care to specify his position) called my house and spoke to me. Mr. Ira Whoever then "asked me nicely" to remove the image ("I'm asking you to take it down, or we'll send you papers". Yes. his words). My response: "So, I'm being threatened with a NastyGram?" and before I could barely finish the word "threatened", his hurried and heavy-toned response was "No, you're not being threatened. We're 'asking you nicely' to remove it." I inquired exactly what the part of it was that Apple had a problem with, and was given a very vague response:
"We don't have a problem with it. It's illegal to post internal systems of Apple's."
"However, Peoplesoft is not owned nor created by Apple."
"PeopleSoft does belong to Apple."
"No, PeopleSoft is not owned by Apple, I've used it at Radioshack, Wells Fargo, and Shasta High School."
"Well... um... GCRM is."
"Yeah, sure, I guess."
When I asked specifically if it was GCRM that Apple's higher-ups had an issue with, I was again given a very vague answer, just coming back down to somewhat thinly veiled heavyhanded "polite asking".
Now, I understand Apple's interest in protecting their internal secrets, interests, and properties... So, in response to Ira *Insert forgettable last name here*, I have replaced this image with a hopefully Apple-Friendly version. Anything even remotely considered Apple internal systems has been blurred out.
I am now not in any violation of any interpretation of any sort of NDA that I signed a year and a half ago.
Cupertino must've been bored this week... It's not like this was a leak of Asteroid proportions. Which, being said, as an Apple fan and a musician obsessed with computer-based recording, I would 99.9% buy one of those bastards. IF it didn't suck. Pass that on to His Steveness, Ira.
So, if this image is now Apple-Approved, great. If this still is a problem, I believe you have my number. ;-)
My wife took this picture to prove a point, I'm starting to see her point. She made her case for the thing she wanted.
For those interested, here are the specs:
24 inch (viewable) widescreen active-matrix LCD display
2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor
4mb shared L2 cache
1BG of 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM
320GB Serial ATA hard drive
Slot loading SuperDrive (DVD+R DL/DVD+RW/CD-RW)
ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO graphics processor with 356MB of GDDR3 SDRAM
Built in iSight video camera
Built in 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet
One firewire 800 port, one firewire 400 port, three high speed USB 2.0 ports,two high speed USB 2.0 ports on keyboard
Built in AirPort Extreme wireless technology
Built in Bluetooth 2.0 +EDR
Audio: built in stereo speakers, integrated microphone, optical digital audio input/audio output/headphone out
Apple Remote, Apple Keyboard and Mighty Mouse
Included software: Mac OS X, Front Row, Spotlight, Dashboard, Mail, ihat AV, Safari, Address Book, QuickTime, iLife 08, Photo Booth, iCal and more.
This pro surfer dude, who's name I did not get, was wearing clothes from LinkSoul, as was Chuy Reyna, to show that they can go straight from the golf course to the beach, or something like that. : )
My white 13" Apple Macbook laptop computer.
pictured (left to right): MagSafe AC power connector, ethernet port, Mini-DVI port, FireWire 400 port, two USB 2.0 ports, optical digital audio input/analog line in, optical digital audio output/analog headphone jack, and security slot
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specs:
13.3" TFT glossy widescreen display (1280 x 800 resolution)
2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU
2 GB of RAM (DDR2)
160 GB hard drive (5,400 rpm)
Intel GMA X3100 graphics processor (144 MB shared RAM)
built-in iSight video camera
slot-loading 8x SuperDrive (DVD+/-R, DVD+/-RW, CD-R, CD-RW)
FireWire 400 (1 port)
USB 2.0 (2 ports)
Mini-DVI port
10/100/1000BASE-T ethernet port
built-in AirPort Extreme wi-fi wireless networking (802.11g/n)
Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR
optical digital audio input/analog audio line in
optical digital audio output/analog headphone out
built-in stereo speakers
meets Energy Star requirements
size: 12.78" x 8.92" x 1.08"
weight: 5.0 pounds
This setup is pretty sick. It includes:
- G4 mac mini with iSight and 17" dell monitor
- PowerMac G5 with Dual 2.7 GHZ processor, 8 gig ram, 1 TB storage
- Dual 30" apple cinema displays with iSight camera
- M-Audio studio monitor speakers
- Dual 15" dell monitors for Windows work
- A/V equipment rack with DVD burner, DAT, Sound mixer, Tape Player, Firewire input for HD video editing
- Dell 24" monitor with component inputs for HD video monitor
-17" Powerbook
I was in the process of moving so sorry for the mess.
Master Chief recommends backing up your computer often, to prevent data loss.
I think I might make this a recurring series, of the Master Chief in real life. Maybe a 1 a week type of thing. You can't rush these things though, gotta put thought into them.
On a related note, I got the white EVA Spartan, so he/she may be making an appearance (there were female Spartans in the SPARTAN II & III programs, read the books!) alongside our protagonist.
Woohoo, I made the Explore page!
En la foto se puede ver mi Toshiba satelite A20 del 2003, Imac Core 2 duo a 2 ghz con pantalla de 17", un lector 8 in 1 de tarjetas, un Ipod 60 gb con Video, base para ipod con receptor infrarrojos, un movil Nokia 6630, amplificador denon pma 540r y un router linksys wrt54g
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There's quite a difference between TetherPro cables and the others, and it's not just the awesome orange color. Available in USB2.0 and USB3.0, also Firewire. For sale in our store or in our webshop: www.frankdoorhof.com/store
(This is a summary from my Mac Mini SSD RAID-0 Project, see the set for more photos and a video.)
[ General disclaimer: These are my findings posted for the curious; do this at your own risk, don't blame me if stuff breaks etc. ]
Holy crap, I don't want to ever have to do that again. Hopefully, it still works when reassembled with 8 GB of RAM and dual SSDs. In theory, it just might work. (Update: I now feel comfortable with this after tearing down and rebuilding a few times - and two weeks of running time later, no problems.)
Yes, this whole operation is somewhat frivolous. The stock dual 7200-RPM 500-GB 2.5" drives will themselves be configured as SPAN and in an external enclosure, driven via Firewire 800.
Not in the frame: Mainboard.
Tools used: Torx T6 and T8 screwdrivers (and, I think, a Philips #00) and a Dogfish Head 90-minute IPA.
Resources
I referenced a teardown guide from ifixit for the "steps" and post-it notes, so I could remember what went where when reassembling. (Note: not all steps apply, you don't need to disconnect the bluetooth module etc.)
For the hard drive removal / upgrade process, this OWC video was handy and has rather hilarious background muzak. Note that there are different videos for server vs. non-server models.
General tips
Don't bother with the crappy $5 screwdriver "kits" (eg. the blue and green ones by the RAM in this photo) - go to your local hardware store (or online) and pay the $6 or whatever it might cost per tool for quality Torx T6, T8, and (if needed) Philips #00 screwdrivers. One of the cheap ones, in one case, didn't fit one fan screw I was trying to remove. However, the so-called plastic "spudger" tool did come in handy for pulling up cables and nudging other things where fingers wouldn't reach, and where metal was not a good choice to use.
Removing the "mainboard"
The OWC video suggested you should put screwdrivers into holes on the mainboard, and pull back; this seems like a great way to break or snap the PCB and/or accidentally ruin traces along the way. I tried pulling several times, but it seemed that no amount of careful force would budge the thing.
Instead, I turned the mini around and carefully pushed the heat sink / vent outward using my thumbs, and with a little pressure, was able to pop the board out. The heatsink is just behind where the screw holes are shown in the video, toward the connector plate. It is pretty tight as the plate (where all the USB + power connectors etc. are) has snaps/clips on either end holding it in, but it does eventually give.
Once you get the mainboard, the rest is easy. Don't pull the board fully out until any attached power cables etc. have been disconnected - and once the board is out, you can take out the power supply and HD chassis.
I also recommend booting the computer upside-down and with the bottom cover off once after reassembling, just to make sure the fan starts up; I noticed that mine didn't at first(!), because the tiny fan power connector was not fully-seated on the mainboard when I put it back in. No fan would've meant a toasted CPU at some point, so make sure you check that. Use a flat plastic tool or something to push the connector flush with the board, to ensure it's seated nicely.
Also, there's a bit of a trick with the wireless module / antenna / grill assembly when popping it out and in - I think it slides underneath into place, so keep that in mind. Similar moves apply to the black plastic cowling at the bottom left near the fan. Sometimes things need a little jiggling to get into place.
Re-installing Lion: ⌘-R / Internet Recovery FTW
On mid-2011(?) Mac hardware, push and hold Apple-R (⌘-R) during boot to kickstart the Lion Recovery mode, with wifi or an ethernet cable connected. It'll attempt to boot from a Lion recovery partition normally installed, and when that fails, it will magically go out on the Internets, and download and install and boot the recovery partition. That will run and after disk set-up and partitioning etc., another download of up to 7 GB (at least, according to my router's traffic for that day) will happen, Lion will install, reboot, and voila.
Partitioning the SSDs, overprovisioning and stripe block size
From what I read online, it was recommended to leave up to 20% "unpartitioned" empty space for "overprovisioning" with an SSD to help with performance (garbage collection) and reliability. I got two OCZ Vertex III 60 GB SSDs, and using the disk utility built into the Lion installer, set them up with two partitions: [ 48 GB ext3 / 12 GB empty space ]. As for stripe block size, I had heard 64 KB or 128 KB as general recommendations, so I used 128.
Performance results
With SATA 3.0 (up to 6 gbps) and SandForce 2xxx controllers on the OCZ SSDs pushing up to 550 MB/sec read rates, I was able to get 1000+ MB/sec on larger files in benchmarks.
RAID-0 pros/cons: Worth it, or is one SSD enough?
Upside:
- Wow, up to 1000 MB/sec. That is a shiny number.
Downsides:
- If one drive goes south, you lose everything.
- In most cases, 1000 MB/sec is a theoretical maximum you'll hit only in benchmarks. Small bursts may be more realistic, and in most cases with less-compressible data, numbers will be much lower (albeit, 250+ MB/sec or whatever is still nothing to sneeze at.)
If you're a tinkerer / overclocking fan and don't fear the risk of data loss (i.e., you make time machine or image backups), RAID-0 is worth trying just for the fun of it. Otherwise, I think one SSD alone makes a huge difference in responsiveness given near-zero seek times etc., and with theoretical maximums of 500 MB/sec, that's plenty of I/O for just about anybody.
For Christmas, I got this totally awesome clear acrylic computer case (for ATX motherboards). It came with 4 fans, but had space for 5. There are 7 fans total. The front and side fans are intake fans, and the top and lower-back fans are exhaust fans. The power supply unit also has fans, one an intake to cool the PSU components, and and exhaust fan to get rid of hot air from inside the PSU.
This computer is loaded with plenty of new stuff since fixing a partition problem that took two years to fix.
Update! Broke 1,000 views on February 05, 2008!
Update! Hit 1,100 views at 23:25 on 2008-02-12!
Update! Hit 1,500 views on 2008-03-13!
Update! Hit 2,000 views on 2008-04-07!
Update! Hit 3,000 views on 2008-06-12!
Update! This photo has passed my dog's funny face to be the Most Viewed Photo in my stream! 2008-07-21
Update! As of 12:00am on 2008-10-12, this pic has 5,287 views... GEEZ!
Update! Hit 6,000 views on 2008-11-11.
Update! Hit 7,000 views on 2008-12-25.
Update! Hit 8,000 views on 2009-01-29.
Update! Hit 9,000 views on 2009-03-17.
Update! Hit 10,000 views on 2009-05-01.
Update! Broke 11,000 views on 2009-06-23.
Specs:
Case: Xoxide.com Clear Acrylic to match Power supply
Motherboard: AMD K7-based Lucky Star MB
CPU: AMD Athlon 900MHz
Power Supply: Logisys 550W Acrylic w/ Dual LED-Blue fans and UV-Green-sleeved cables
Graphics Card: ATI Radeon 9550 AGP
Sound Card: installed, but not working
Expansions: USB 2.0, FireWire, Wireless-G, SATA, Sound.
Fans: 7 total: 2 blue as part of PSU; 5 of varying colors and direction. Back fan is Antec 80mm LED Blue fan; side, front, and top are Unincom LED-UV 80mm fans. Side and front fans are intake, top and back are exhaust, and PSU fans do both.
Hard Drives: Internal 120GB by Maxtor; external 200GB by maxtor and 120GB & 320GB by Western Digital
Optical Drives: LG 16x Super-Multi DVD/CD Rewriter w/ Lightscribe
Monitor: Envision 19" Widescreen LCD
Mouse: Logitech MX600 Wireless mouse
Keyboard: Creative Fatal1ty gaming keyboard
Other devices: Dynex 25-in-1 Internal Flash memory card reader used externally via special adapter cable from FrontX.com
BIG NEWS: MORE UPGRADES COMING IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS (AROUND JULY 14TH) CONSISTING OF A BRAND-NEW MOTHERBOARD WITH BUNDLED CPU, AND SOME BRAND-SPANKING NEW MEMORY!
Yesterday I had lunch with Tom Loverro, Drobo's Director of Product Marketing, where he briefed me on the next big thing coming out of Data Robotics, the second generation Digital Data Robot aka Drobo -- what I'm calling Drobo 2.0.
Beginning today people can now begin placing orders for Data Robotic's second generation Drobo storage device. Drobo 2.0 will cost $499, the same price as the previous model. For a limited time (until they clear their shelves of the old units) Drobo will be selling their first generation Drobos for $349. I blogged about Drobo's first generation device about a year ago here, but this new device is even better -- pure white hot donkey awesomeness.
Boasting new and improved Firewire 400/800 support, the Drobo 2.0 is now twice as fast as the old Drobo, according to Tom. The core processor in the unit has been upgraded to improve speed and performance and a new fan has also been installed in the unit to make it quieter as well. Personally I've never had a problem with the noise on my Drobos except on very hot days when the fan seems to kick on in my 110 degree attic. Tom told me that they actually bake their drobos in an oven when testing them to make sure that they can withstand super high amounts of heat.
Additional enhancements and modifications have been made to the Drobo Dashboard software that will also help boost speed and performance under the hood. A new version of the Dashboard software will also be released shortly for existing Drobo owners who will be able to benefit from software based speed increases as well.
So how much faster is the new Drobo than the old one? Like I mentioned before, about twice as fast. According to benchmarking statistics provided by Drobo (see above), The second generation Drobo can now read about 52MB per second and write about 35MB per second.
So why should you buy one of these things? Simple. Because Drobo represents the easiest to use, most economical, way that you can back up and store your digital photographs today. I'm blown away when I talk with photographers about their back up strategies and hear that so many photographers simply have no back up strategy. I've met some truly amazing photographers who simply have all of their photos on a hard drive and are hoping that it won't fail. It will fail. All hard drives fail. It's not a matter of "if" it's a matter of when.
Drobo allows you to put up to four internal hard drives into your unit (internal hard drives are cheaper than external hard drives so you get some of your money back there). Your photos are then spread across these four drives and if one drive fails you simply pull the old failed drive out and swap a new working drive in and you've lost no photos. The system heals itself with the new drive and it's like you never had a drive failure at all. Your data is replicated across all of the drives in a pooled sort of environment.
Because you can use your Drobos as primary storage you don't have to remember to institute daily back up strategies. And because replication doesn't require 1:1 drive space, (four 750GB hard drives in a Drobo gives you effectively 2TB of replicated storage) you can save money by not having to buy additional back up hard drives.
The beauty of the Drobo most of all though is that it is super easy to use. You simply slide your hard drives into the Drobo's bay, plug in the power supply, plug in the USB or now Firewire cable and your Mac or PC reads your Drobo as a single drive. It's that simple. There are no raid arrays to configure or servers to set up or networking devices that need to be added. It's simple plug and play.
You should remember that just because you have a Drobo though that your back up strategy should not end here. As good as Drobos are at protecting photographers from disk failures, they still can't protect against things like fire or theft. One solution here though is buy two Drobos and put them in different parts of the country or world and back up your files periodically on both machines.
It should be disclosed that Drobo has supplied me with one of their new units to test out. I've also purchased two other Drobos in the past on my own.
My old Apple Macbook Pro 15" (Late 2008) + 24" LED Cinema Display (ACD).
Stuff on the picture:
-Apple Macbook Pro 15" (Late 2008, Core2Duo 2,4GHz, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD)
-Apple 24" LED Cinema Display
-Apple iPhone 3G 16GB Black
-Apple iPod 5.5G 80GB Black
-Apple Wired keyboard
-Apple Magic Mouse
-Apple Classic Remote
-Apple Dock
-Wacom Intuos 4 Large
-Wacom Intuos 4 Pen + holder
-Sandisk Firewire Compact Flash cardreader
-Datacolor Spyder 3 Elite calibrator
-Transformers USB Hub :)
-Griffin Stand
-Synology DS409+ (4x Samsung F2 EcoGreen HD154UI 1.5TB HDD)
Info
Camera: Nikon D300 + Nikkor 17-55mm
Extra: Nikon SB900 + Pocket Wizard + White shoot through umbrella (from the right)
Nice new keyboard...and i'm starting to like the Mighty Mouse... It isn't that bad as people make out
But I quite fancy a new wireless mouse.
Lovingly attached by Firewire, ready to transfer my life from old to new.
The Powerbook is going to my mum, so I'm going to be briefly without laptop.
Need to Reset PMU? The iMac was a dramatic departure from mainstream computer design. The design of the first generation of the iMac has been credited to Jonathan Ive, currently Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple. It was the first computer to ship with out a floppy drive and was equip exclusively with USB port standard. The slot-loading iMac G3 began shipping in late 1999 with additional DV (Digital Video) designation. This version had FireWire, CD-RW/DVD-ROM, 500 Mhz Processor atop the new "Pangea" motherboard with a 16MB ATI Rage 128 Ultra graphics chip. The 2001 series was available in indigo, graphite, and snow with either the 500, 600, or 700MHz (PPC750CXe) processor.
I just got an AirPort card adapter for this iMac and, at the same day, my iBook's AC adapter just dead. So now it replaced my iBook SE/366 as my bedroom Mac.
Well, it should be an "upgrade" for my bedroom.. from 366MHz to 400MHz, 192MB Ram to 256MB Ram and er... oops, 20GB HD to 13GB HD. Oh yes, FireWire port on this iMac...
Chuy Reyna, former California pro surfer and marketing director at Firewire Surfboards models LinkSoul's hybrid golf shirt and WalkingBoard shorts.
This is a cool little series, and I don't mean because of the photography, I mean because of the two surfers. I don't know the name of the guy in the blue shirt, but him and Chuy are both pros.
I shot these for LinkSoul and I posted them on facebook soon after, but never did get around to posting them here.