Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/04/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Alastair, Apart from the obvious benefits of file management I have been fairly disappointed by my Drobo. It is by miles the slowest USB disc I have and does not go much quicker on firewire, surprisingly, so it must be an internal speed limitation. I have the second version BTW. On top of this Drobo Dashboard is the least Mac compatible software I have ever used. I removed it from my computer following hangs and general slowing down. The computer runs fine again since then but I have no way of accurately knowing how close to maxing out the storage I am any more. It may well be that newer versions are faster, and if you run a pc maybe the dashboard works too. I do not consider the Drobo anything special myself, though I have not had a failed drive on it so can't judge its ability to recover. cheers, Frank On 26 Apr, 2011, at 14:04, afirkin at afirkin.com wrote: > Tina I feel your pain. I am rebuilding the computer and trying to back up > to a WD sharespace. By god its slow. After 5 days it failed to back up my > photos, so in the morning I ring WD. I will spend the day working on th > eproblem and then I will have wasted so much time I should have done > SOMETHING ELSE. But what to do. I am at my wits end with back up. I KNOW > SHOULD HAVE BOUGHT A DROBO and maybe I will. > > Tonight I almost decided to go back to film > > Alastair > >> LUG: >> >> This is driving me crazy. Yesterday an automatic Microsoft update >> rendered >> my computer totally worthless. It went back to the original configuration >> of Windows 7 with none of my screen savers, no programs loaded - just a >> bare-bones version of a new Windows 7. I used Restore to go back before >> the >> update. All seemed good. Screensavers are there, programs listed, >> documents and photos where they should be; HOWEVER, nothing works. When I >> click on any program at all I get this message "The application has failed >> to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see >> the application event log or use the command-line sxstrace.exe tool for >> more >> detail." That is totally Greek to me and I've put it up on several >> Windows >> and Microsoft forums and nobody else seems to know what it means. I've >> come >> to the LUG expertise as a last resort. I do (did) have everything backed >> up >> with Acronis, but that is one of the programs that refuses to run, even >> from >> the restore CD. Before I totally tear all of my hair out, is there >> anybody >> out there who has the slightest idea how I can fix this? >> >> The day when all of my computer programs can be cloud-based will be a >> great >> day (maybe). >> >> TIA >> >> Tina >> >> -- >> Tina Manley, ASMP >> www.tinamanley.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information