The drobo drive installation process is very simple, you just need to point the drive up and the connectors facing the bay, and then just push it in until it clicks.
However, the biggest problem with the drobo is that beyond their dashboard software, the only other way to tell anything about drive status is via LED lights on the device itself. Since the drobo has a redundant storage format, it's very important to keep track of the failing hard drives in order to switch them out. Even though drobo dashboard is available for free, I need to use it with a drobo to find out if the interface is accessible, unfortunately. If you send me a reminder in a week or so, I can check out how well it works with voiceover. Lastly, I do know that even if drobo dashboard were fairly unusable, that they do have a setting where you can set it up to email you with drive issues, as a last resort. cheers, jane On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 9:38 PM, VaShaun Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Please keep me informed I want to know about the accessibility of the drive > bays and installation. > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jane Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by > theblind" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 11:00 PM > > Subject: Re: Connecting multiple computers to one hard drive > > > I have a drobo on order coming soon. It's insanely expensive, but it's >> going >> to be cheaper than building a dedicated computer to do the same thing. >> Around $650 diskless for the new drobo and the droboshare networking >> device, >> I have a bunch of 750gb drives to put in there. >> cheers, >> jane >> >> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 8:22 AM, VaShaun Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >wrote: >> >> I want the DroBo especially since it just got upgraded to firewire. >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jane Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by >>> theblind" <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 5:37 AM >>> Subject: Re: Connecting multiple computers to one hard drive >>> >>> >>> Hi Alex, >>> >>>> That's not necessarily true. The general term for that is a NAS (network >>>> attached storage), and more devices than the airport networking hardware >>>> from Apple support that type of usage. It ranges from a single hard >>>> drive >>>> NAS device (like the Western Digital MyBook World Edition) to very >>>> expensive >>>> redundant storage like the Drobo with a device called DroboShare (both >>>> together are about $4-700 depending on which model you buy, BEFORE hard >>>> drives!). And if you have a computer to spare, you can set up your >>>> computer >>>> to share that hard drive over the network to others, but that computer >>>> would >>>> have to be on every time you'd want to use it on another. >>>> >>>> Also, Apple does sell a single device called Time Capsule that combines >>>> the >>>> Airport networking hardware with a hard drive, but in my opinion it's >>>> sort >>>> of overpriced and inconvenient if the hard drive ever fails. >>>> >>>> cheers, >>>> jane >>>> >>>> On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 8:09 PM, Alex Jurgensen` <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> >wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>>> You could actually share it over the network by attaching it via USB >>>>> 2.0 to an Airport express, Airport extreeme or one of the computers on >>>>> the network. If using the third option, it is possible to use >>>>> firewire. I recommend using the airport method. It worked really well >>>>> for me. >>>>> Thanks for listening, >>>>> Alex, >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >>> > >
