This is the story of the death of my Drobo. My entire digital life lived on a 5-bay Drobo RAID system. I won’t go into how a RAID system works; you can read more about that here. I do know that I have used this system for over 10 years
It’s hard to put a price tag on years of memories you captured in photos or the hours of video you took that still brings a smile to your face. Ask yourself, what are my photos worth? If you’re a professional photographer — someone who sold a print or charged
After an on-again-off-again-on-again set of issues with the new macOS Big Sur the11.3 update along with a new version of Drobo Dashboard seems to have everything working solidly. Drobo and Big Sur Thunderbolt When Big Sur was released in public beta in June of 2020, Drobo worked with Apple to
Drobo has been working around the clock to fix a Thunderbolt connection problem that occurred with the release version of macOS 11 Big Sur. What does this mean? What did Apple do? Drobo had finished updating connectivity with its Beyond RAID Thunderbolt 5 and 8-bay desktop connected devices using the
It’s time to announce the next winner of the Photofocus Celebrates 21 contest — our winner for April! So far we’ve given away an Xpozer gift set, X-Rite calibrator system, Lume Cube lighting kit, two Platypod gift sets and a gift certificate to Santa Fe Workshops. For April, we teamed
It’s World Backup Day, the day to make sure there is a copy of all of the digital goodies somewhere besides the drive in your computer. Eventually, your hard drive will get filled up and it’s time to get a bigger drive. Things can get complicated … The bigger hard
In this second article of “getting my new pair of Drobos” series, I’m openly sharing the steps it took to enhance my backup data system from single hard drives to protected storage. Click here to read part one. Picking the right size *for me* The Drobo team had provided me
This week, the Photofocus team landed in New York City for PhotoPlus. While there, we found some great new products! Stay tuned for our overview early next week. Here are some of our favorite articles from the week. Don’t forget to enter our 21st Birthday Celebration contest, for the chance
Levi Sim talks about portraits — the important ones that become treasured memories — with Photofocus director of content Kevin Ames in this fast-paced tip-filled webinar in partnership with Drobo. Memories Portraits are our memories. Creating them of our families and our friends can be as simple as snapping a
OK ladies and gentlemen, it’s time to get real. I’m opening up about a delicate issue I know a lot of female photographers are experiencing as well. Yes … I’m talking about “upgrading my data assets.” Openhearted confession I’ll put my cards on the table: I’ve been rocking my own
This is what it looks like at my desk. And I know yours probably looks like it, too — although you’d never admit it publicly. Well, I am! And I’m showing how it’s possible to be efficient while enjoying our messy office when our data is perfectly sorted! God bless
My guest is a California based photographer who has a distinguished career in Hollywood, working on several number one Hit shows including “NCIS,” “NCIS Los Angeles,” “House,” “Grey’s Anatomy” and many more. He’s an educator and has shared his talents with many photographers. Please welcome Mike Kubeisy. Topics include a
