Comments for Bill Streeter

Comment on Sick Dude … by kopper

kopper — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:43:23 +0000

Uh. OK…

Comment on Ok major overhaul way overdue by Courtney Watson

Courtney Watson — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:06:04 +0000

Can’t wait to see what you’ll do with this

Comment on DO NOT BUY A DROBO!! by Markus Sandy

Markus Sandy — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:02:06 +0000

Nasty story Bill. Thanks for sharing and helping others avoid bad products like Drobo. I know I won’t buy one now. Wait a while and watch this blog post attract comments from other dissatisfied owners and eventually earn a google ranking that matches Drobo’s. Then we’ll see how they like “customer testimonials” like yours. Ha!

Comment on DO NOT BUY A DROBO!! by Jarod

Jarod — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:52:39 +0000

Wow… I was going to pick one up with tax return. Think I’ll stick with my space sucking external army.

Comment on John Lee Hooker by Valdez

Valdez — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:38:30 +0000

Yeah I hear you.

The first video’s description on Youtube said “Live at the American Blues Festival” which toured Europe in the 60s. Before reading that I thought that it looked European. Reminded me of some of those great Miles Davis and John Coltrane performances.

In the US he had to wait until an entire generation of musicians he influenced decided to help him record a few albums of his old songs. He wins a Grammy. Some cheeseball Pepsi commercial director churns out a music video. Everyone’s squeezing as much out of this while they can.
I just read that video was directed by the guy that directed Wedding Crashers. Nuff said.

Comment on DO NOT BUY A DROBO!! by david

david — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:27:37 +0000

Damn.

You lost data. You lost money. You lost time.

All they have to give you in return is horrible customer service.

Pathetic.

I feel for you that you had to go through all this however I’m glad that you wrote this Bill. I’ll make sure to never make a purchase from their company and will ensure that I tell anyone that is looking for a backup system to stay far away from Drobo.

Comment on DO NOT BUY A DROBO!! by David Meade

David Meade — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:20:24 +0000

ouch. Sorry to hear about that.

I’ve been on a “man I have to finally figure out storage” mission myself lately … I’ll definitely avoid Drobo.

“To trouble shoot, please allow the device to run while rebooting every 4 minutes until such time passes that you can no longer get your money back. Thank you.”

Comment on DO NOT BUY A DROBO!! by kopper

kopper — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:13:41 +0000

First of all… does this thing come with any sort of warranty? All I could find on their website was information about a 30-day money-back guarantee! That’s IT? That right there should be enough to warn anyone off from buying something like this. It’s a big investment and it NEEDS to come with some sort of warranty, not this 30-day money-back guarantee bullshit. And obviously you started having issues with it and weren’t “entirely thrilled with your Drobo” within that first month, so they should honor their guarantee, not to mention actually add a warranty. What a crock of shit.

You can bet if they’re treating you like this that they’re treating other customers the same way. Those responses from them sound pretty kneejerk, as if they’re used to giving them all the time. Maybe a class-action lawsuit could come about over it. I would keep on them if I were you. Don’t let them off so easily. “The squeaky wheel gets the grease” is something I heard umpteen times when I worked in customer service at CompUSA. That, and “the customer is always right.” Makes you wonder if these nutjobs ever worked a day in retail…

Comment on DO NOT BUY A DROBO!! by Courtney Watson

Courtney Watson — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:16:20 +0000

I’m not sure how valuable that data was to you (how much you would spend to recover it), but we use a few companies I can recommend. Let me know.

Fuck Drobo.

Comment on DO NOT BUY A DROBO!! by bill

bill — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:04:33 +0000

@Nick

No. The fact is that in the great scheme of things $1000 isn’t a whole lot of dough–it is to me, but when it comes to legal action it’s nothing really. It’s small claims court money. It would cost me more than that to pursue it. The action I’ve taken is this blog post and making sure everyone I know knows how this company does business.

Comment on DO NOT BUY A DROBO!! by Verdi

Verdi — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:09:10 +0000

Wow. That’s amazingly sucky. Thanks for the warning.

Comment on DO NOT BUY A DROBO!! by Cheryl Merkowski

Cheryl Merkowski — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:58:21 +0000

I had seen the drobo awhile ago when looking at possibilities for backup… when I seen the price, I lapsed a bit. When I read more about how it does what it does.. I was very skeptical that it would actually work.

Glad I went with my instink honaye. I do, however, love ur email blaque to them. “bullshit”. ha.

Hope you pursue it and get a refunds.

Comment on DO NOT BUY A DROBO!! by Nick

Nick — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:14:41 +0000

Are you going to be taking any legal action against Drobo? Something needs to be done with this shit.

Comment on Belkin TuneStudio … The Greatest device that doesn’t exist! by g l

g l — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 06:39:32 +0000

If anyone has even seen one of these WHERE, was it. I wanna know how the hell it won an award if it does not exist???
Belkin, needs to answer that one! Does one only need a cool looking non existing device to enter ??? then what? Was Belkin really saying they were able to instantly convert an anolog input into a MPEG4 format for instant replay, WOW what next Belkin, gonna change water into wine?? yahthehoomyster@yahoo.com

Comment on John Lee Hooker by jacob

jacob — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 15:25:19 +0000

I’ve never seen the first clip, thanks for sharing that. I don’t know whats up with that 2nd overproduced turd. You can really see the raw talent in the first video. Whoever produced that obviously didn’t get JLH, or the boogie woogie.