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I already posted about the Drobo “robot”, but here is a video worth watching…

If you’re a digital photographer, or someone who collects music and/or video on your computer, you’ve probably already had to begin to deal with the explosion of your digital storage needs.  This article, by Thomas Hawk, talks about a system called Drobo which might be a worthwhile investment.  It’s a box into which you place “internal” hard drives, and it then uses them for both your storage and, most importantly, your backup too!  While it’s not exactly “RAID” technology, it’s great for anyone who’s got lots of data and doesn’t want to become a computer expert to protect it.  What I like about it is the ease of use that Thomas describes, and the ability to swap out a failed drive (and if your drives haven’t failed yet… give them time) and have your data saved.  I’ve got a series of external drives in place right now, with robocopy batch programs backing up and archiving my files.  It’s growing daily into the beast-that-ate-my-system, so I’m seriously considering the Drobo to keep things safe and sane.  As a responsible consumer, I’d also like to bone up on a few of the other storage solutions out there like Infrant and Buffalo Terastation.

Windows has launched a tabletop computer, where the tabletop is the screen and you interact with it by touching the tabletop with your fingers instead of using a mouse and keyboard.  I’ve seen these before, but I figured it would be *years* before they’d be seen in the real world.  Even though they’re only selling them (at $5K to $10K) to commercial customers, it’s only a matter of time before they make they’re way to us!  When it comes out, I am so going to get one.  You really need to watch the video.  I was most impressed with the way it acted as a conduit for transferring that picture wirelessly.