William - The Drobo is on my to do list -
It's unusual to not see any serious negative commentary on a tech product. The drobo seems to get great reviews everywhere. I saw a video where Patrick Norton pulled a drive out while it was in the process of writing. The Drobo took it in stride, and when he put the drive back, it went about repairing the damage and picking up where it left off. gs <http://georgesphotos.net> On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 4:18 PM, William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ----- 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. > -- 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.
