----- Original Message ----- From: "Axel Belinfante" Subject: Re: OT: Data Storage and Backup
>> I just took delivery of a Data Robotics "Drobo" which I intend >> to use for data storage. > [...] > >> The only problem I can see with this is that it is not a network drive >> (no problem for me, I only use a single computer anyway), > > they have "Drobo share" to connect a drobo to your network > (droboshare connects to drobo via usb) If I ever feel the need, I can pick one up, but for now, I hardly ever want to tranfer from one computer to the other one on my network anyway, and on the rare occassion that I do, it invariably is some spur of the moment thing when having both machines fired up isn't a problem. > > I've been looking at drobo too, and the announced simplicity is > appealing also to me (haven't bought one yet, though). > > I'm wondering though how safe it is when you have error upon error, > e.g. when power goes down while it is still in a less-safe state, > e.g. while writing data to initialize a new disk that you > inserted just before to replace a broken disk. It does have a built in backup battery, which I presume would keep things running long enough for it to make things safe. My backup solution now is a 500GB mirrored RAID (2x500GB drives) in my computer, and the Drobo, which at the moment has 2x750GB drives, and I will toss another one in to add some more redundancy. I wouldn't erase anything from my desktop drives until I have verified the write to the Drobo. I'm somewhat confused about how many copies of any particular file is spread out on the thing. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
