Mac Geek Gab #191: Drobo, DroboShare, Podcast Playing Tips, and Shared Volumes in Finder

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Podcasts by Dave Hamilton & John F. Braun | 11:19 PM, Feb. 9th, 2009

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Dave set up the Drobo and DroboShare this weekend, and even played with some DroboApps, so he and John take some time to talk through his experiences and the devices themselves. Then it's on to listener feedback and questions, including some iPod-related podcast-playing tips, how best to display mounted shares in the Finder, and more! Subscribe for free today!

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Show Notes and Items Mentioned:

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Groundhog Day (Official Site)
Drobo
Creating a RAID Set
DroboShare
DroboApps
Apple Filing Protocol (AFP)
Vista Network Issues
Using the AirPort Admin Utility to create a WDS network with multiple base stations
AirPort Express: How to join an existing wireless network in client mode
MarcoPolo
Topic : How to have it keep playing podcasts one after the other, automatically?
twhirl
Adobe AIR
RCDefaultApp
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This podcast is recorded on an iMac (Core 2 Duo Mid 2007) using Audio Hijack Pro and routing courtesy of WireTap Anywhere. As for equipment, John is using a Heil PR-40 microphone going through a Behringer Eurorack UB1222FX-PRO mixer, monitored with Etymotic ER-6i Isolator earphones, then straight in to his Mac. On Dave’s end, a Heil PR-40 microphone is also used, and the whole show is mixed “live” through a Mackie Onyx 1220 FireWire-enabled mixer before being pumped back into the Mac (via FireWire, of course), and is monitored with Westone ES2 custom-fit earphones. When PilotPete is in the house, he’s usually talking through a Heil PR-30. Each microphone is run through a channel on a Behringer Autocom Pro-XL MDX1600 compressor, a touch of reverb is added with an ART FX-1 processor, and the whole thing is then compressed in software on the Mac. The show is recorded to AIFF, and then converted and uploaded with an Automator script. Michael Johnston from iPhone Alley then goes through and enhances the show to provide you with the AAC version. You can hear more details of the setup and how it’s mixed on Episode #32.

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3 Observer Comments

Dave said on February 11th, 2009 at 11:04 AM:

There were a number of statements made about the Drobo that are not correct. The Drobo does not use RAID. It’s a proprietary hybrid of JBOD and RAID.

Also, a number of places are selling the Drobo for $425, not the full $500. Anyone paying full retail is nuts.

Dave Hamilton said on February 13th, 2009 at 1:06 PM:

Thanks, Dave. You’re right—the Drobo is its own hybrid, and I thought we explained that pretty well on the show. It doesn’t use traditional RAID at all, rather using bits and pieces of different RAID types to accomplish its magic.

u2mr2os2 said on March 9th, 2009 at 4:00 PM:

An alternative to using MarcoPolo for assigning static IPs at home while using DHCP while abroad is to configure your Airport Base station to use DHCP reservations. This way, you don’t have to necessarily switch locations.

See: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Airport/5.0/en/ap2119.html

See also this little problem with it though:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2007/03/airport-extreme-does-seinfeldian-dhcp-reservations.ars

This feature is easier to set up if you fill in the DCHP Client ID field on your computers, which is also helpful in some of the client lists in the base station settings so you don’t have to memorize MAC addresses.

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