> > From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2008/04/28 Mon PM 01:31:12 GMT > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: OT: Data Storage and Backup > > > ----- 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.
As it was creating a new redundant array of the data, it actually wrote twice that and created a catalogue, so maybe it's not _quite_ so bad. ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam -- 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.
