DL.TV

episode 171 (1x171)

Air date: Jun 05, 2007

• Data Robotics Drobo: if you can slide a drive into a slot and occasionally glance at great big green, yellow and red LED lights, this USB storage device offers simpler data protection than any RAID device we've ever used. Seriously. No need to mind HD sizes, you can mix and match; you do lose some drive capacity in exchange for the protection. We've been running it for a week, yanking drives out randomly, and so far, we haven't lost anything. It can take a while to rebuild your data after a drive loss, but that's a heck of a lot better than losing it altogether. Drobo is available now, $499 without drives. • Intel's Extreme and Bearlake Chipsets, $199 EeePC, walls of Motherboards, more cases than you could fit in a containership and the world's tallest building? Must be the massive annual hardware gathering that is Computex Taiwan. PCMag's Mark Hachman is on site and has the news, along w/ a growing slideshow from the show floor. • Update: Paint That Notebook/Remove That Logo. The apple is gone. Patrick used J-B Weld Kwik to fill in the hole where the logo used to be, sanded it down with 220 grit emery paper, filled in any remaining (tiny) holes with Bondo Glazing & Spot Putty, and started sanding with 400 grit paper. Next up: 600 grit paper, then the spray cans. Woot! • iPhone ships June 29: Do you care? Team DL.TV is divided. • The MCSE Question: Back in Episode 169 MusicGenius asked the DL.TV crew if an MCSE certification would be a good idea. (He wants to move from audio production to repairing computers.) You emailed us with a ton of ideas; we share 'em on the show. • Opening a laptop can be expensive, writes Maurice! He cracked open his fiancé's iBook last week to replace a broken hard drive and ended up with "a shiny white paperweight" along with a bill for a new notebook! • SETI@Home fried Maria's Motherboard? Christopher says it's obvious what happened! • That movie Rob was thinking about last week? With the prisoners and the escap