If you know me, you know that I’m a huge proponent of Drobo. As of late, the frustration level with Drobo is increasing and it may have edged away at this enthusiasm. My most recent frustration came when I upgraded a drive in my Drobo to increase the usable space to more then 2TB. After the Drobo finished updating all of its partitions, I was left with a partition that was labeled ‘unallocated’ in the Drobo dashboard.

I know that much has been made of data and connectivity problems on AT&T in the States, but I’ve found O2 to be just as bad, if not worse. About once per day, even though I have full bars and am connected to 3G, my iPhone is unable to receive any data. Loading webpages doesn’t work, refreshing mail doesn’t work, connecting to the App Store doesn’t work, etc. This occurs for about 5 to 10 minutes at a time and can sometimes occur multiple times per day.

Apple products have not been kind to me over the past couple of months. For starters, about 2 months ago, the plastic on my iPhone’s back cracked right at the mute switch. This is a common problem that has been documented all over the internet ( link1, link2 ). Here’s a picture of mine: Soon after this happened, I purchased a second battery from the Apple store. Good thing I did, because the very next day, my original battery wouldn’t charge.