Comments on: Sweet Drobo Home RAID

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» Drobo: Sweet Storage, One Big Flaw MaisonBisson.com — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:26:34 +0000

[...] been a fan of Drobo since I got mine over a year ago. The little(-ish, and sweet looking, for stack of disks) device [...]

By: Michael Panzer

Michael Panzer — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:00:59 +0000

Actually, Robin Harris quite likes the Drobo, since it is _not_ a RAID solution and also manages to hide most of the replication and redundancy stuff from the user: http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=117.

One of his points against home RAID remains valid, though. Drobo still protects you only against hard drive failure and little else.

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links for 2008-09-22 « Holaday98’s Weblog — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:00:57 +0000

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By: Jason Griffey

Jason Griffey — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:16:02 +0000

I bit the bullet on the Drobo when they released the Firewire version and dropped the USB 2.0 to $350. Right now I’m running 2x 750ig, 1x 500 gig, and 1x 1 tera in mine, giving me a little over 2 terabytes of total storage.

It is freaking incredible. It is sometimes a bit slow, but for holding ALL of my pics and my music collection…well, I’m never using anything else if I can help it. I’m considering getting a second next year to set up at my parents house for offsite redundancy, but for simple onsite backup, it is seriously like magic.

By: Lee Stranahan

Lee Stranahan — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:14:49 +0000

Thanks for the great summary – I am really lusting after the Drobo now. I do video and photography and I’m juggling a bunch of big external drives. It’s silly, really. NewEgg has 2 different 1 TB drives for $150.