Ahh, yes. Thank you for finding and linking to that, Jonathan. I was really not looking forward to having to recount that story. It was such a nightmarish time trying to isolate and document the series of failures with those devices. My upper management that "sold" them to our clients really didn't want to believe what I was trying to tell them. And of course, they looked like fools to the clients they sold them to, which didn't help the situation.
-- Espi On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 4:02 PM, Jonathan Link <[email protected]> wrote: > https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg06413.html > > > On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 6:52 PM, Jonathan Link <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Michael Espinola Jr (IIRC) discussed these at length once on the list. >> The Drobos he worked with ended up unresponsively eventually. The only way >> to get them to come back online was to restart. Eventually, that interval >> decreased, so the time between reboots became much more frequent. Drobo >> technical support advice was to reboot the devices, no explanation was >> provided and I don't think that there was much guidance about when the >> problem might be addressed. Given that I wouldn't trust Drobo with >> anything. And that might be too much. >> >> I ran two Synology units (I believe these were the ones Kurt mentioned) >> at my old gig for more than two years, with nary a problem. At my present >> employer I'm planning to implement Synology for shared storage. I only ran >> 10 VMs at my old place, and expect to run 10-12 at my new place. >> >> >> >> On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 5:28 PM, CSSU NetAdmin <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> We are looking to replace our EMC VNXe. It currently hosts about 40 >>> VM's for three schools and total network storage of about 1 TB. A friend >>> mentioned looking at the Drobo b1200i. It looks pretty good and the price >>> is great. >>> >>> Anyone have any thoughts about this comparison or experience with it? >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >> >> >
