Drobo doubles up storage robot capacity

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Wonderful, but just one thing to be wary of #

Posted Tuesday 7th April 2009 15:55 GMT

Proprietary raid algorithm = youre going to get shafted when it goes wrong

CKM

They have been known to loose all your data... #

Posted Tuesday 7th April 2009 16:07 GMT

... happened to a friend who bought a Thecus instead....

Anonymous Coward

@CKM #

Posted Tuesday 7th April 2009 20:09 GMT

What has been known to "loose all your data"? Drobo? NAS solutions? RAID arrays? Or just one instance of a guy you know with a Thecus NAS?

Please be a bit more helpful.

Anonymous Coward

Looks great but WAY Overpriced #

Posted Tuesday 7th April 2009 20:09 GMT

So I can get a 4 bay Drobo for ~$380, so an 8 bay one should be way less than >3 x the price.

Nice idea, too expensive.

Walter Brown

UK Math? #

Posted Wednesday 8th April 2009 00:35 GMT

Does the UK use its own math scheme, or did i miss something in this article, because here in America, with the math we use, 4TB drives x 8 bays = 32TB of data storage, not 64TB...

CastorAcer

Re: UK Math? #

Posted Wednesday 8th April 2009 09:42 GMT

Nope that's Drobo math 2TB x 8 bays x 4 DroboPros in one virtual volume is 64TB.

Chris Mellor

Not a SAN-in-a-box #

Posted Thursday 9th April 2009 09:23 GMT

I've found out that the Drobo Pro's iSCSI connection can only support one host; it's not a sharable iSCSI target across the network, meaning that the Drobo Pro is not a SAN-in-a-box-like storage product.

Chris.

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