The Drobo is a RAID enclosure. You need not add all drives at once. Nor even add drives of the same capacity. I have a Drobo Pro that I began with some old 1 TB and 500 GB drives. Then as my needs grew I added 2 TB drives to it and eventually now have 4 x 2 TB drives. This is a RAID of 4 drives so if one fails I still have my data intact.
This setup has not been completely trouble free, though. Sometime last year, all four drives showed as fail. But Clayton (RIP) at Synergetic followed this up with Drobo and got me a replacement and saved all my data. Smaller drives like the WD duo, Seagate Armor etc are for smaller data sets. Only Drobo is a scalable solution which you can start off with 1 TB and grow all the way to 10 TB or more without having to reformat your storage. It's a bit pricey. But if you put down on paper what your data is worth, what your time is worth per day, in case you have to redo stuff because of a data loss, you'll quickly find Drobo to be worth it. I use Drobo to backup large amounts of client media that I accumulate. To backup my system drive on my iMac and MacBook Pro, I use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone my boot disk every morning. This is a bootable clone so I can take the disk to any Mac, boot off it and I have all my data as well as software. Everything that needs long term storage, I write to DVDs and now Blu-ray disks. Cheers. Neil B Sadwelkar My site: www.sadwelkar.com My blog: neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com skype: neilsadwelkar twitter: fcpguru On 30-Apr-2012, at 6:49 PM, Dr Neeraj Bijlani wrote: > Hi > I checked with the drobo supplier as told by Rakesh well though it supports > multiple drives what I think I forgot to mention that the system which I am > looking was for my home and the device without hard disc and with Ethernet is > costing around 80k plus > > And western digital my book live duo 4tb is around 26k with iPad and iPhone > and mac and pc support and also hard discs included also fully upgradable > later like a plug and play after few years when I want to upgrade my hard > drive capacity and also gives wireless backup > > As this is my first system I would like to ask how exactly can drobo systems > help me better that the western digital my book live duo or for that matter > even black armour Seagate 220 > > Neeraj > > Sent from my iPad > -- www.imug.in To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
