----- Original Message ----- From: "mike wilson" Subject: Re: OT: Data Storage and Backup
>> 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. > > A fairly all-round review here. > http://photonotes.org/reviews/drobo/ > Good review. Mine has a very quiet fan, the two drives burbling away like a coffee maker are noisier than the fan, but I did read a few complaints of noisy fans, and then rebuttals on the reviewers blog from other users who had quiet ones. And the thing is SLOW. It took about 5 hours to drop 225GB of data from my internal RAID to the Drobo. It certainly isn't suitable for use as a working hard drive, but Data Robotics pretty much says that too. 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.
