Comments for Yank's Blog http://www.freebaxter.com/ryan You need sophisticated? I got sophisticated! Tue, 30 Nov 2010 17:52:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Comment on What is wrong with my Drobo?!?!? by Ryan http://www.freebaxter.com/ryan/2010/08/04/what-is-wrong-with-my-drobo/comment-page-1/#comment-30 Ryan Tue, 30 Nov 2010 17:52:32 +0000 http://www.freebaxter.com/ryan/?p=99#comment-30 As is pretty typical of web rants, I was quick to post my complaint...but never came back once it was resolved. I should probably do an update post, but here's the rundown. * Drobo Support was very helpful and thorough, but at times asked me to do some fairly useless things to test. * They happily sent me a replacement unit after I tried their tests. * After that didn't work I decided to try rotating each of my drives out of the group, and completing testing with just 3. * Turns out the most recently added drive (a WD Caviar Green) was the culprit. * Once that drive was pulled from the rotation the speed picked right back up to normal. * WD replaced the drive for free (minus my return shipping for the damaged one). Everything has been more or less fine since then. I did happen to wake up to a failed drive on Friday, but happened to have an older 1TB drive sitting around. I panicked a little, unsure if replacing a 1.5TB with a 1TB would mess up the system. Called Drobo and they assured me that as long as I had at least 500GBs of space before the failure, it would be fine. Inserted that drive and after about 3 days the re-layout was complete. All of my data was available during that time, but performance was degraded until the re-layout was complete. Everything seems good now. Hope this helps. As is pretty typical of web rants, I was quick to post my complaint…but never came back once it was resolved. I should probably do an update post, but here’s the rundown.

* Drobo Support was very helpful and thorough, but at times asked me to do some fairly useless things to test.
* They happily sent me a replacement unit after I tried their tests.
* After that didn’t work I decided to try rotating each of my drives out of the group, and completing testing with just 3.
* Turns out the most recently added drive (a WD Caviar Green) was the culprit.
* Once that drive was pulled from the rotation the speed picked right back up to normal.
* WD replaced the drive for free (minus my return shipping for the damaged one).

Everything has been more or less fine since then. I did happen to wake up to a failed drive on Friday, but happened to have an older 1TB drive sitting around. I panicked a little, unsure if replacing a 1.5TB with a 1TB would mess up the system. Called Drobo and they assured me that as long as I had at least 500GBs of space before the failure, it would be fine. Inserted that drive and after about 3 days the re-layout was complete. All of my data was available during that time, but performance was degraded until the re-layout was complete. Everything seems good now.

Hope this helps.

]]> Comment on What is wrong with my Drobo?!?!? by elon http://www.freebaxter.com/ryan/2010/08/04/what-is-wrong-with-my-drobo/comment-page-1/#comment-29 elon Tue, 30 Nov 2010 14:06:41 +0000 http://www.freebaxter.com/ryan/?p=99#comment-29 I can't explain it myself, but my drobo has slowed down so much that it's unusable. I don't have the extra drives to move the data, but man, what a pain! if you are saying the drobo didn't speed up since you transferred your data then reformatted, I'm tempted to just ditch it. I found this site last night: http://macperformanceguide.com/Reviews-OWC_QX2.html I'm thinking yet again of a new type of storage solution. I can’t explain it myself, but my drobo has slowed down so much that it’s unusable. I don’t have the extra drives to move the data, but man, what a pain! if you are saying the drobo didn’t speed up since you transferred your data then reformatted, I’m tempted to just ditch it. I found this site last night:

http://macperformanceguide.com/Reviews-OWC_QX2.html

I’m thinking yet again of a new type of storage solution.

]]> Comment on It’s official … Comcast is totally effing with me by Ryan http://www.freebaxter.com/ryan/2009/07/26/its-official-comcast-is-totally-effing-with-me/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Ryan Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:36:53 +0000 http://www.freebaxter.com/ryan/?p=67#comment-11 <a href="#comment-10" rel="nofollow">@Ryan </a> Bring it back @Ryan
Bring it back

]]> Comment on Word Cloud Resume by Olivier Blanchard http://www.freebaxter.com/ryan/2009/01/15/word-cloud-resume/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Olivier Blanchard Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:01:17 +0000 http://knightslog.com/?p=31#comment-5 Very cool. Thanks for the mention too. :) Very cool. Thanks for the mention too. :)

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