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

February 9th, 2009 at 11:19 PM - Podcasts by Dave Hamilton & John F. Braun

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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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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.

Theme Music: “The Answer”, written by Jeff Steblea and Brian Ayles, as performed by Go Figure.  “Made On A Mac” bumper by Mark Fleser

3 Observer Comments

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.

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.

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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