XServe RAID - No longer available?

[Mark Steinberg]

Check out this review that came out today.  Make sure to read all the  
user comments.  I seriously looked at it about 4 months ago and  
decided not to use it due to the non standard disk formatting and  
issues with multimedia files.

http://ihnatko.com/index.php/2008/02/18/sun-times-drobo-and-droboshare/

Mark

On Feb 19, 2008, at 8:43 PM, Alex Satrapa wrote:

> On 20/02/2008, at 11:47 , Perbix, Michael wrote:
>
>> ...  Now we also have a monster honkin' EMC SAN with Fiber Channel  
>> that serves as storage for all our Windows servers.  Has all the  
>> enterprise features etc etc etc...
>
> Sort-of on the same topic, has anyone here played with a Drobo?
>
> How well do they compare to the other RAID options that you've  
> played with in that price-range (~$US500)?
>
> I've just had my first disk failure in one of my LaCie Big Disk  
> Extremes, and rather than replace it with yet another Raid 1  
> enclosure, I'm thinking about getting a Drobo instead. My main  
> concern being that it will be connected to my AirPort Extreme Base  
> Station, so I can't use software RAID.
>
> Alex
>
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