TLP001 – In the premiere episode of “The tomorrowland.com Podcast” I review the Promise SmartStor NS4600, and discuss setting it up, using it as a media server, and explain how to set up a dynamic dns so that you can access it remotely and stream videos to your iphone over the net. Â Click Podcast in…
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Goodbye Old G5 – You Served Me Well
This week I sold my old G5 along with a 23″ Cinema Wide Display, a BlackMagic card, Sonnet Tempo eSata card, and a Sonnet Fusion 500P populated with 5 x 500GB hard drives. It was a complete edit system including lots of fast storage, but as part of my “out with the old – in…
Drobo – for me is probably a No-Go
Personal Disclaimer – I hate it when websites ‘review’ products without really testing them. What especially kills me is when they quote stats off a sell sheet as if they actually got those results in practice. Therefore this is not a review of the Drobo because I don’t own a Drobo. However, this IS an…
Review – G-Speed eS IS blazing fast
It’s been a few weeks since I talked about storage solutions.  I’m getting closer to purchasing a solution for my home/office, which will undoubtedly be a raid hanging off of eSata.  I’ve used a few different eSata towers and will eventually talk about each of these solutions.  Today I’m going to cover one of the better ones…
Review – Vantec NexStar ROCKS!
Continuing my series of reviewing every hard drive solution I’ve ever touched, I want to talk about the Vantec NexStar. Not only this particular hard drive dock but the general concept, the goods and bads about it, including some benchmarks. I’ve always like the idea of the hard drive dock. Recently I needed to back…
FreeAgent Pro Review – NOT Good!
A few years ago I moved towards eSATA connectivity for drives. Â SATA (or Serial ATA) is the connection that is on the actual drive and has blazing fast transfer speeds up to 3Gb/sec. Â The concept is that whatever drive enclosure you buy has some sort of interface card that ‘converts’ SATA to USB or Firewire….
Hard Drive Review – G-Raid is G-Great!
By far the best and most reliable portable drive I’ve used is the G-Raid series by G-Technology.  I have 4 of them, some are 4 – 5 years old, and they all still work great. Internally, G-Raid has two 3.5″ SATA drives that are striped together using RAID level 0 for speed.  The stripe management is…
Various old Hard Drive reviews – wrap up
After reflecting on the iomega review, I decided to get past the past and bring things more current. Â So, here I’m going to sum up several hard drive solutions of old and what lessons I’ve learned from them. Remember that these views (the whole site actually) come from a mac perspective and using pro-applications. MacPower…
Hard Drive Review: iomega
About 4 years ago I hired an assistant editor to log and capture footage for a documentary. Â I gave her a brand new iomega hard drive and 40 hours of tape. About a week later she gave them back – all captured “safe” to the hard drive. Then she added, “oh yeah, the drive was…
Out with the old, in with the new – part 4
The other day I discussed Apple’s move to DisplayPort on the new MacBooks. Â Their other big news was that they completely dropped firewire on the MacBook, and only have firewire 800 on MacBook Pros. In blogger terms this is old news (over a week ago) and has already been discussed to death by many other…