Michael Espinola Jr (IIRC) discussed these at length once on the list. The Drobos he worked with ended up unresponsively eventually. The only way to get them to come back online was to restart. Eventually, that interval decreased, so the time between reboots became much more frequent. Drobo technical support advice was to reboot the devices, no explanation was provided and I don't think that there was much guidance about when the problem might be addressed. Given that I wouldn't trust Drobo with anything. And that might be too much.
I ran two Synology units (I believe these were the ones Kurt mentioned) at my old gig for more than two years, with nary a problem. At my present employer I'm planning to implement Synology for shared storage. I only ran 10 VMs at my old place, and expect to run 10-12 at my new place. On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 5:28 PM, CSSU NetAdmin <cssunetad...@cssu.org> wrote: > Hi, > > We are looking to replace our EMC VNXe. It currently hosts about 40 VM's > for three schools and total network storage of about 1 TB. A friend > mentioned looking at the Drobo b1200i. It looks pretty good and the price > is great. > > Anyone have any thoughts about this comparison or experience with it? > > Thanks! >
