Re: Drobo Pro

[Linda C Jones]

I think, BTW, if anyone is considering any type of Drobo, take a look at the SCSI drives therein. We opted not to take the inexpensive drives sold with the Drobo, but to purchase more robust drives, since the things would be used as backup for servers. It doesn't cost that much more. Of course, the big plus for Drobos is that you can replace a failed drive on the fly and it will automatically rebuild, but that didn't seem to me to justify less reliable drives. Linda Eric E Eskam wrote: Linda C Jones <linda.jone...@gmail.com> wrote on 05/17/2009 09:38:48 PM: > Using the plain old Drobos for backup in a couple of cases. They are > quite simple to use -- meant for end-users. Yup, I have one of the four slot units at home to keep all my photography and video on and I love it. The pro is eight slots and it supports iSCSI.  Seems like a perfect external array for a small business environment - especially if I can boot off of it.  I hate direct attached storage - our iSCSI SAN has me spoiled :) Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government "The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it." -  P. B. Medawar