Craig> Drobo... few reasons why I want to keep it. I can understand why you want to keep it. Maybe the real answer is to get a second drobo (cheaper) with just SSDs that you dedicate to the pictures?
Craig> I reeeeeeeeally like the appliance approach. Push drives in, Craig> pull drives out, it manages itself. I have an app on one of my Craig> desktops that says, see that mounted file server over there? Craig> ...good, encrypt and back it up into Amazon Glacier. So I have Craig> zero admin overhead... wife and I just treat it like a magical Craig> storage land. Craig> aside: I'm fully capable of doing RAID/linux and all that... I Craig> just dont want to have linux servers and hand-managed RAID Craig> arrays in my house :) So, "stuck" (read "in love") with the Craig> drobo. Heh, I feel this way about my Tivo personally. Best damn remote and interface in the business. Craig> 5, 250Gb SSDs are within budget, so I'm really leaning towards Craig> going that way and slowly stuffing them in. Probably talk to Craig> Drobo support first to make sure it'll be happy with me Craig> removing 1T and 2T drives one by one and replacing with smaller Craig> SSDs. I think you'll end up breaking things here. Most RAID systems do NOT handle smaller drives gracefully. They're grow-only generally. So for this case, I'd probably think about a second smaller/cheaper drobo with just a couple of drives in it for photos. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
