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Hello and welcome to H On Tech. I am Micah Sargent. And today I'm taking your tech question and I'm answering it.

This week's tech question, oof! It hits because it is one. I hear about all the time.

I'm sure many of you have heard about in the past, and you go,

why is this happening?

The question is, comes in from Jeff, who writes,

I just retired from the military and came across a four-bay drobo drive that I had in storage.

For people who aren't familiar, really quick, I'll cut in and say,

drobo, network-attached storage

that wanted to be a sort of better solution for network-attached storage options at the time

and do backups of your machine and all sorts of stuff. It was kind of an all-in-one option.

Anyway, Jeff goes on to say, it has tons of photos for my military days, and I would like to see them.

I also have to pause again because Jeff spells, in this case, photos, F-O-T-O-S, which I know that is a way that it is spelled in other languages.

However, there has been a surprising number of people in email recently that I've seen spell it that way.

And I'm trying to figure out what the pattern is there.

So if you spell photos whenever you're just like quickly trying to talk about photos,

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