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I've got a Drobo here in my office that I use as a onsite hot swap if my
primary compute power goes "bill gates". I sync to it periodically enough
that I could plug it into any other box in the house, share and I'm on the
air in minutes...
My config is 1-tb's in all drawers, raid-5... Problem is with that size
array you have to split it into 2 virts cuz windoze can't handle the size
so
I have droboa and drobob...
The problems I keep having with this 2 month old box is that it will
powercycle itself randomly, it will drop one of the 2 partitions totally
and
randomly, it is INCREDIBLY SLOW - (MUCH SLOWER Than just simple USB-2
attached external drives using the drobo provided firewire
connection!!!!!!!)
I would be very selective how I use it in a production environment and most
definitely not for critical apps...
Usually I just powercycle the drobo with it does a bill gates on me and it
spins up fine and is re-recognized by windoze fine...
I'll write a review on it and experiences on my webber shortly when I get
that cranked up for product reviews next month.
But for a CYA, it should work as a short term stop gap for me and my needs
here...and the space is nice...:)
D.Rima
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Hmmm...
Interesting. I had heard about the Drobo but have yet to part with my $$$
to get one. I had thought that if I was going to get one I should get the
DroboShare to go with it. I had heard the "I love my Drobo" comments
before but this is the first negative press that I've seen. I'm not too
concerned about the one-year warranty. Usually, for something like that
it's either broken from the start or works right out of the box and runs
forever. I would agree that it stinks to have to pay for firmware
updates. Maybe it's a new business model? ...hopefully one that doesn't
catch on. Maybe the company may have some cash flow problems and this is
their way of generating some revenue?
Dave Parnin
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Topeka, IN 46571
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daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
You may want to consider comparing it to a Drobo (www.drobostore.com).
FWIW: I just found this:
Data Robotics Charging for Drobo Firmware Updates
http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2009-02/data-robotics-charging-for-drobo-firmwar
e-updates/
"This is the first time in my 25+ years in computing that a hardware
manufacturer has informed me that it wants to charge me for a firmware
upgrade. I innocently checked my Drobo for firmware updates yesterday and
was startled to receive the message above."
(more interesting info on the page)
david
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