I’ve been using ReadyNAS products since they were still being sold by Infrant, but it wasn’t until the latest iteration that they became incredible performers. The Netgear ReadyNAS Pro has 6 SATA drive bays and funcations as just about every kind of server one could want (for a home office, that is).

My first ReadyNAS Pro has 7.89 TB accessible (1 disk redundancy), and is being used as a backup volume for 4 separate machines. SuperDuper! clones volumes to disk images hosted on the NAS, and it also serves as a Crashplan repository (through a Mac Mini running Mac OS X Server). The NAS also hosts all of my media (e.g. videos, music, installer disk images), serving media through shared volumes and various media servers (like UPnP to a Playstation 3). (read more »)

After some light prodding from Jauder, I set out to optimize my Mac OS X 10.6.4 (Snow Leopard) network settings. There is a lot of information out there about how you might optimize a Mac OS X network, but I couldn’t actually find any benchmarks. (read more »)

3D video (anaglyph red/cyan) of a moral eel hunting at night in the Maldives. Shot underwater with a custom BS Kinetics underwater housing for dual Sony CX550V camcorders.

If you would rather see a side-by-side format or row interleaved, check out the YouTube version of the video.

If you don’t have anaglyph 3D glasses and want to see the footage, click through for the left eye view. (read more »)

• Hidden modifier tricks in Lightroom: useful! http://ech.cc/btGN4q #
• Shuffling around drives and installing huge amounts of software on new Mac Pro. Just what I need — 1-2 days of downtime. :( #
• The 1TB drive that ships with the July 2010 Mac Pro 12-core is a Western Digital Caviar Black. #
• This is pretty much how I feel all the time. http://ech.cc/cWVqUh #
• Someone took my MacBook Pro AC adapter from my house while I was gone. You'd think things would be safe from house guests! #
• Has anyone tried Rarevision's 5D to RGB transcode tool? Looks very promising, although batch support is a must! http://ech.cc/ao245o #
• New post: 5th and 6th SATA drives in Mac Pro (mid-2010) http://echeng.com/journal/2010…..-mid-2010/ #
• New post: Canon 24-105mm F/4L IS USM lens mug http://echeng.com/journal/2010…..-lens-mug/ #
• 8.4 Million New Yorkers Suddenly Realize New York City A Horrible Place To Live http://onion.com/cHTUHz (via Peter Kim) #
• Just turned down a photography assignment to Okinawa. Scheduling conflicts cause so much pain… #
• The Oatmeal: "The crap we put up with getting on and off an airplane" http://theoatmeal.com/comics/airplane #
• Forget cold fusion. I want cold LCDs so they stop cooking me at my workspace. #
• I liked a YouTube video — Auto Targeting Sentry Gun (video 8 of 18) http://youtu.be/RxBa5bQfTGc?a #
• I liked a YouTube video — The FPS Shot – Effect Breakdown http://youtu.be/gVhqA3Hi2YY?a #
• Michelle Rodriguez joining Sea Shepherd on the next southern ocean campaign? http://reelrave.com/news/?p=2971 #
• I can't believe I didn't sign up for the US Trusted Traveler program years ago! $100 for 5 years of no lines. #
• Kozyndan just posted a short video of me with a manta at a cleaning station in the Maldives: http://flic.kr/p/8xSwz5 #
• How do I tell iTunes I never want to hear another Liszt piece again? #
• Clean install of Final Cut Studio on new Nehalem 12-core Mac Pro results in frequent Final Cut Pro crashes. *sigh* #
• Pam: "are we becoming the grumpy old people?" me: "happily." (counting "like" usage in theater) #
• "I don't understand why that's funny." Poor Pam, surrounded by video game people in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (she still enjoyed it). #
• Bailing out on a wedding reception because they are serving shark fin soup. #
• Transcoding / deinterlacing from 1080/60i to 1080/60p so I can do 3D using Line by Line Interleaved. Slow, even on 12-core Mac Pro! #
• @choccobo Awesome! Now, make it in a USB 3.0 dongle or ExpressCard34 so I can use it on the road. Also need hardware ProRes encoder. ;) in reply to choccobo #
• High Scalability – How will memristors change everything? http://instapaper.com/z4hp7p61z #
• I just registered domains related to Pam's name. She can't understand why she'll ever need them now, but one day, she will. #
• Updated Twitter Tools for Wordpress to 2.4 because Twitter now requires oath. http://crowdfavorite.com/wordp…..ter-tools/ #
• THE PARENTS ARE MEETING!! #
• WOW. Stereo still image software on Mac OS X is in its infancy. The apps look like Windows apps and barely work. #