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Desktop external storage supplier Data Robotics has doubled up the slot capacity of its Drobo product to produce the 8-slot Drobo Pro, enabling it to sell networked block storage into markets served by low-end commodity NAS (network-attached storage) vendors such as Buffalo, Iomega, Seagate and others. The original Drobo …

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  1. N

    Wonderful, but just one thing to be wary of

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

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  2. CKM
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    They have been known to loose all your data...

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

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  3. Anonymous Coward
    IT Angle

    @CKM

    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.

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  4. Anonymous Coward
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    Looks great but WAY Overpriced

    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.

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  5. Walter Brown
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    UK Math?

    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...

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  6. CastorAcer

    Re: UK Math?

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

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  7. Chris Mellor

    Not a SAN-in-a-box

    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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