When I bought my Apple Silicon-powered MacBook Pro in late 2020, I wasn’t sure what I’d do with my 2018 Mac mini. My overriding thought was it would be useful to keep around as a server, but… what would it serve? I’ve traditionally sold all my old Macs to help defray the cost of my […]
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Synology Storage Part II – OWC RAID Enclosure
OWC RAID Enclosure Next to Synology & Drobo I recently walked you through the process Steve and I went through to deal with a Synology Disk Station that was running out of space. I ended the story by explaining that I pulled two of the 4TB drives, replaced them with 8TB drives, which gained me […]
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NC #831 50 Years in accessibility, EV Roundtable, Fun with Automation, Beats Flex Headphones, Multi-Segment Displays at CSUN
Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, April 11, 2021, and this is show number 831. mp3 download CCATP #680 – Gregg Vanderheiden on 50 Years in Accessibility EV Owners Roundtable – DTNS Special – Daily […]
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Researching the Best Way to Gain Storage on Our Synology NAS
Synology RAID Calculator Demonstrates 4TB in 5 Slots Gets 16TB of Available Space About 9 months ago I bought a Synology Disk Station which is a network attached storage device, also known as a NAS. I bought the DS1019+, which is a 5-bay unit, and populated it with five 4TB Western Digital drives. 20TB […]
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As I mentioned a while ago, my aged Drobo 5N died after many years of good service. The 5N, for the last few years, had the role of backup NAS to the newer Drobo 5N2. When the 5N died, I did what I’ve been itching to do for quite some time – I bought a […]
Continue readingMore TagNC #789 Loopback, Twelve South Curve, The Levelator is Back, Drobo Died & Synology Joined the Family
Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, June 21, 2020, and this is show number 789. Well things are looking pretty good for the show next week for Steve and my little holiday where we’re […]
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Dead Drobo from Dashboard Have you noticed in the last few years, new gadgets and even software don’t seem all that different? I went from an iPhone X to an XS and couldn’t tell the difference after about a day. I went from the Apple Watch Series 4 to Series 5 and only noticed my […]
Continue readingMore TagNC #690 Sweet Setup Love for Keep It and Useful Workflow, Drobo Migration, Mind Map Productivity, Security Bits
The Sweet Setup shows some love for Keep It and has a fantastic Workflow to add an iPhone X frame to screenshots. I’ll tell you about the (disappointing but ultimately successful) Great Drobo Migration of 2018. I promised the audio from my talk at Macstock Expo entitled “Mind Map Your Way to Productivity” and it’s […]
Continue readingMore TagNC #683 Drobo 5N2, Wyze Cam Pan, WWDC Excited or Not
It’s a nice long show but only a few topics this week. We’ll start with a walk through what I learned testing the Drobo 5N2 network attached storage. It’s not so much about the Drobo itself but more about the technologies involved. Then we’ll talk about the new Wyze Cam Pan $30 security camera. Finally […]
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What I Learned Doing Speed Tests of the Drobo 5N2 vs. 5N
This article started out as a simple review of the Drobo 5N2 network attached storage (aka NAS). But as you might have noticed by now, these things take on a life of their own. I’m going to start with a bit of a walk down memory lane to explain how I got into using Drobos […]
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