Firewire for Software RAID

[Thomas Baley]

I was very interested to read your comments on the Drobo. It caught  
my interest with all the bubbling enthusiastic reviews in the last  
six months. But it seems you are certainly correct on the price  
point. I can get the 2 TB Buffalo NAS for $1,700-$1,800. Doesn't the  
Drobo have a limit on the size of an individual drive, too?

I had not heard anyone else talk about speed one way or another. Your  
comments are valuable.

Perhaps the things it brings to the table are (1) no-brainer for  
installing and using and (2) for the person with a pile of stray  
drives laying around, it handles drives of different sizes without  
blinking (limiting the overall size by the smallest drive). It is  
also limited to being just a USB external device, right?

All-in-all, it seems like a good idea, but may lack some in  
implementation and price point. I would be interested in any other  
experience you have with it, like reliability, heat (?), etc.


Thomas R. Baley
tbaley at mac.com
770-984-8655
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On Dec 18, 2007, at 11:57 AM, Brett Dikeman wrote:

On Dec 14, 2007 8:26 PM, Kenny Leung <kenny_leung at pobox.com> wrote:
> I have been using a drobo (www.drobo.com), and I think it's great.

They're expensive ($500, with no drives, which puts them deep into NAS
territory), slow as molasses, and don't offer anything above or beyond
other units, except for a few LEDs in a cute-looking box.

I saw a review recently where READ speed was about 10-15MB/sec no
matter how many drives were installed.
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