Junker's Build Thread

[junker]

I approached Drobo a few weeks ago with a proposal for a biz dev position, but unfortunately I believe they still consider photographers, video editors, and small businesses as their core markets while their competitors are going to eat their lunch if they don't actively engage our digital music and video markets. Cord cutting is real, and it's going towards streaming or storing digital files. I've ripped every single CD and Blu-Ray title I own (~25GB each). Also, cloud computing makes no sense for us. Too many bandwidth, capacity, security, and privacy issues. Storage is just so cheap now that it makes sense.

Drobos, in particular, are very easy to set-up. They have the 5D that connects directly and is the fastest, and the 5N that connects to your router and is available to all devices on your network. I prefer the 5N for a number of reasons. Synology is another big player and many people love their products, but I feel that they are geared a bit more toward power users. Still pretty easy, however.

Pretty much all you need to do is install their Dashboard application, connect the Drobo, slap in as many drives as you want, let it do it's thing, and then use the Dashboard to set up any "shares" (partitions) and user accounts you want. There are a few other small things that you can set-up as well.

They have live demos for business owners on-line everyday at:

drobo.com/special/info/drobo_for_business_live.php

Let them know they need to be looking at actively pursing home-based digital media storage solutions, hire Josh Junker, and sponsor AA.

Definitely feel free to let me know if you have any questions, and I'll do my best to help out.