In the phrase ‘May you live in interesting times’ – often referred to (inaccurately) as ‘the Chinese curse’- ‘interest’ is used as a euphemism for ‘trouble’ or ‘unpleasantness.’ If that is the case, then ‘dull,’ ‘uneventful’ and even ‘boring’ could be used as ‘trouble-free’ or ‘easy’ in much the same manner.
Blog reader and OWC customer Larry Rymal did just that when he spoke of adding an OWC Storage Solution to his current system:
‘Other than the added storage space, it was a very ‘˜boring’ uneventful upgrade.’
This is a great statement on the ease of use our products offer. No complex instructions, special drivers or extra equipment is needed to use one of our Storage Solutions. Everything you need to use it comes in the box, and its generally just a matter of minutes between opening the package and having your Storage Solution up and running.
In other words, it’s about as ‘dull’ as you can get.
The irony of this phrasing, though, is that the actual usage of our drives is actually pretty interesting – and not in the euphemistic sense. I never mentioned what system Mr. Rymal hooked his OWC Storage Solution up to. No, it wasn’t a Mac. It wasn’t Windows or Linux box, either (though our Solutions would work with any of them).
He hooked it up to his DirecTV HD-DVR. Now, instead of the already-respectable 500GB worth of storage, he’s got 1.5TB, giving him about 300 hours worth of program recording.
The neat thing is, this isn’t the only instance of our Storage Solutions being used in non-traditional ways. Our products are designed to be as easy-to-use and widely-compatible as possible, which means they can be used with a lot of different setups. For example, I use an older Elite to store movies for playback via my DVD player, which has a built-in USB port. A few months ago, OWC Duane put up a great how-to showing how to use our Storage Solutions with your next-generation gaming platform.
If you’re using one of our Storage Solutions with something other than a basic desktop or laptop computer, we’d love to hear about it. Leave a comment on our site: http://blog.macsales.com/1620-our-products-may-be-‘boring’-but-the-ways-you-can-use-them-aren’t
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