Flight fever, land mine, Drobo

It looks like Ali was unfortunate enough to pick up a common side effect of getting crammed in an enclosed space with other human beings for hours on end, she started feeling sick yesterday.  She started feeling ill early in the day and last night was showered and in bed very early for her. It’s not great timing since her training schedule for both the marathon and Olympic distance triathlon are supposed to be ramping up in earnest now.

I just set up a Drobo at work and it is damn cool.  What the F is a Drobo you asked?  It is a NAS/External HDD rig.  There are tons of NAS devices out there and I have seen a lot but the Drobo is the coolest I have had my hands on.

The Drobo makes raid simple.  You basically throw SATA drives in the unit and it will configure what you have for maximum storage along with maximum redundancy.

It is hot swappable, comes with simple as dirt indicator lights and software that makes it easy to monitor the health of the unit.  There is no need for matched drives you can throw anything into the box and it will use it.  You can also grow the size of the unit dynamically, all they way up to 16TB by simply swapping out a smaller drive for a larger one, one at a time until you do all the drives.

If you are looking for an external HDD enclosure on roids or stand alone NAS, I highly recommend taking look at their stuff.  I will be using this unit as direct attached storage for my Backup Exec 2010 R3 server.

I noticed the other day that it is full moon time again.  I made note that I didn’t feel as awful as I normally do during this time of the month, cool. Well yesterday my buddy at work stepped on a landmine.

What began as a request for assistance got real ugly real fast.  When I asked for further info about a problem my buddy made a comment about how I don’t believe what he tells me and if I didn’t want to help him he would just figure it out himself. He flipped the switch.

I was pissed that just because I wanted more info about the problem that he twisted that into me not wanting to help him.  I responded angrily at first and quickly accelerated to enraged when he continued to engage me further.  The f bombs were flying out of my mouth fluently, I am sure quite a few people in our section of the building heard the ruckus.

When my co-worker saw the flames shooting out of my eyes he said that he was only kidding about me not wanting to help him although I didn’t detect any sense of kidding when it was said.  I told him if that was true, I apologized for flipping out.

Later he stopped in my office and said it was a bit scary, he obviously had never seen me uncorked before, very few people have.  I apologized again later in the day.  Even if what he said pissed me off it was not cool to go nuts on him as a result.

I guess I didn’t escape the month’s cycle after all.