Ok, so not RAID but rather RAID-like parity setup
maybe similar to RAR recovery
using PAR files. You'd need at least as much parity
data could be lost by the
largest drive failing + remaining intact data to
reconstruct missing data.
Parity drive dies, no biggie just recreate it's data.
I saw no
The one big negative I see here is that since it's a proprietary
solution, what happens if DROBO goes down? You have a bunch of drives
that cannot be read except by DROBO, all your data is pretty much
toast until you fork out another $499.00.and then will it be able
to access all your data
Well like I said in my previous email it's not RAID it's a bit
different. And really you are paying for the "user friendliness" of
the Drobo. From the demos that I have seen, you turn it on and it
tells you with lights (green/yellow/red) its status. Yank a drive and
it goes red, insert a new one
What makes this any different from the usual RAID
setup beyond the dumbed down
interface? I think for $500 I'd want something with a
few more bays, an ability
to daisy chain units together, and an optional
interface like eSATA.
Interesting idea though.
FORC5 wrote:
> neat for data, not for boot
If you go back in the DL.TV archives they reviewed it a couple times
and were pretty positive about it. It's not RAID - it uses a custom
drive array solution. The advantage is that you can stick any size
drives in it. With RAID, each drive in the array is only as big as
the smallest drive. So i
neat for data, not for bootable backups.
Demo did not say what kind of drives, assume sata
cool
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At 11:41 AM 1/8/2008, Naushad, Zulfiqar Poked the stick with:
>Wow, this product looks pretty nifty!!
>
>What do you guys think?
>
>http://www.drobo.com
>
>
>I seriously need something like thi
Wow, this product looks pretty nifty!!
What do you guys think?
http://www.drobo.com
I seriously need something like this. I have 2 x 750 GB external hard drives
plugged into my NSLU2 (which I primarily use for streaming music and movies).
This would really fit the bill for me!!
