nodle
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So over time here I always see some threads about people hating Drobo devices. Now I was never around for the FS device, but I have heard it was slow. Now I know all about Synology, Qnap, Netgear, Whs, Zfs, etc. But Drobos have always intrigued me. Over the years I had still been rocking my little HP WHS V1 system. No complaints. I even had Crashplan backing up my shares. But I needed to update since my storage space had become limited. I looked into all the vendors listed above. I have nothing bad to say about them, I believe they all do their job just fine. But I didn't need all the extras, just a place to dump some data with a little bit of redundancy. So Amazon had a 5N on sale a few weeks ago so I thought why not? I received it and un-boxed it and plugged it in. I thought this won't be easy to set up, it will be slow, etc. I really wanted to hate this thing or find flaws in it. But guess what? It actually does everything that it says it will do. I know there are better performing boxes, or you can just make your own. But this time I just wanted a set it and forget it little box. I'm not even running the add in SSD card and transfer speeds etc. are just fine for me. The box is way smaller than I thought and slapping mixed drives in works as advertised. Like I said I went in with intentions of hating it so bad I would send it back, but for just data storage it's does what it says. Really the only downside it lack of apps. I just want a full blown Crashplan app with a easy to use GUI to put your account info in, select the folders you want to upload and then everything would be perfect. They have a community supported version but I just want a simplified version. But as far as the hardware goes it does what it advertises. So why do I always see people hating on these things? Have they actually every used them before? Anyone else have a 5N?