Yep, that's exactly what I want, but lack the monies
Are you using an XServe RAID to house that 9TB?

no - it's a Chinese built 15 drive rack enclosure that I modded slightly to cater my needs. Its been working flawlessly, 24/7 for about 7 months now.

I happily get 55-60MB/s to and from my Mini's.

Great Podcast guys, listened to it today on my day off. So is it official yet that a Telstra SIM won't work in an optus phone? Or has nobody had access to try? The Live SIM swapping was edge of the seat stuff!!!

Hope to drop into the Oxford Scholar Tomorrow evening briefly

Hey guys! Great podcast but I was anticipating you giving it to Telstra and their ridiculous iPhone plans but they didn't even get a mention. Man I am pissed with those plans! I am a first gen iPhone user on Telstra ($79 cap and $29 data pack) and won't be upgrading until there is a major improvement in what they have announced.

Also, I am a Drobo user and was interested in your discussion about the benefits of the Drobo, one of the main advantages over a Raid 5 setup is that you can mix and match different drive sizes with the largest drive maintaining redundancy. i.e 2 x 750GB and 1 x 1TB = 1.5TB available space. (approx figures). Also the drives are hotswappable and scaleable up to 32TB when larger drives become available (compared with Raid 5's 4TB max)

Raid 5 really should be used with the same sized drives, if not then capacity is limited by the smallest drive in the array. i.e 1 x 250GB and 2 x 500GB drives would only yield 500GB total storage.

Of course, like most tech stuff, it seems as though they base their new announcements on my purchases. Not a couple of weeks after I got my Drobo installed they announced the Firewire 800 version and dropped the USB2.0 version by US$150! Damn...

Strewth, I hope that is all pretty close to the mark!

Cammo

Just finished listening. I enjoyed Ryan's spoonerism about the possibility of Apple becoming an oval evil-lord.