After roughly two years with a Drobo 8D, I’ve become frustrated for several reasons centered around StorCentric’s apparent lack of customer care and product support. As an ICU physician who worked on the front lines in the pre-vaccine COVID-19 era, I can understand the ramifications the pandemic continues to have…
Although I regularly dust the outside of my Drobo 8D direct-attached storage (DAS) server, I spent a few minutes cleaning the inside today. First, I shutdown my Drobo through the Drobo Dashboard application (select your Drobo → Tools → Shutdown). Then, I removed each drive ensuring I remember which bay…
I recently added a front-facing LCD panel to Ghost – my gaming workstation. The parts (Amazon affiliate links) needed for this modification are: I’m using Lian Li’s UNI Fan SL120s in the O11 Dynamic Mini case. I have three fans linked together at the top (exhaust), three fans linked at…
I’ve been using my Drobo 8D thunderbolt 3 direct-attached storage (DAS) on my iMac Pro for over a year now with no issues. The performance is amazing allowing me to work directly off the DAS in real-time when using apps like Logic Pro or Final Cut Pro.
I recently upgraded my audio equipment to get back into podcasting and other forms of content creation. Here’s what I went with:
This is my first real computer build as an attending physician in the sense that all of the internal components and peripherals are new. Over the years, I’ve dabbled with everything from RGB ATX cases (Overmind and Tassadar) to simple mini-ITX cases and even open builds, but this time, I…
Roughly half the time I spent building my new Windows 11 gaming battle station (“Ghost”) went toward troubleshooting the Lian Li UNI fan controller on my Gigabyte B550 Vision D-P motherboard. The system would not recognize it, and I couldn’t use L-connect (or version 2) to control the SL120 UNI…
Roughly a year ago, I upgraded my storage server to a Drobo 8D Thunderbolt direct-attached storage (DAS). Since then, I’ve had no issues with this DAS and have enjoyed the incredible read-write performance. I initially configured the Drobo with two 2.5″ solid-state drives (SSDs) I had previously purchased; however, the…
Over the last few years, I’ve definitely become a fan of Satechi’s sleek designs and USB Type-C adapters. My latest purchase is a charging solution I’ll use on-the-go to power my AirPods Pro and Apple Watch using a single, reversible adapter. At the time of this writing, the charger is…
I recently purchased Apple’s newest MacBook Pro with its in-house M1 “Apple Silicon” chip. This paradigm shift in CPU architecture will take place over the next few years, but the results are already astonishing. Although benchmarks don’t necessarily translate to “real world” performance, they ARE objective metrics. Let’s compare my…