Drobo?

[iRoNeTiK]

Just keeping it short..

Anyone use Drobo? How is it? Thoughts? Better/cheaper solutions?

Looks like I can get the 4 bay array for 300 on amazon and put 4x1TB hdds in for 2.7TB of "redundant protected" space.

 

[nitrobass24]

Drobos Suck

 

[cocoDuck]

My issue with Drobo is that you need their software installed to recognize the drive. It never seemed to work at first but then after a few reboots it would miraculously start working.

 

[Morazl]

Read over their site a bit and see if these features appeal to you http://drobo.com/products/drobo.php

 

[curtcheese64]

Drobo uses a proprietary file system. If your Drobo ever fails, you'll need another Drobo to recover the data.

 

[ibdoomed2]

Drobos Suck

QFT

I have a pro, it was horribly unstable and unreliable, I stuffed it back in the box and it sits in storage.

Thecus, Promise, Synology, or Qnap are good.

 

[keenan]

Build your own. It'll cost you less and do more.

 

[revenant]

hmmm... I bought one from a colleague on the cheap.. loaded with 1tb drives (1st gen) and so far I like it a lot.. but I haven't had it do anything strange or had a disk fail yet.. it's sitting in the ent cent hooked to a wdtv right now and that's all I plan on using it for.. just a media storage box.

PS: hello necro .. er, kinda

 

[DeathFromBelow]

PS: hello necro .. er, kinda

Meh, I accidentally necroed a 3+ year old thread once. This one isn't that old.

IMO the Drobo is way too expensive for home users and there are better products at the enterprise level. I suppose it fills a niche somewhere in between.

 

[revenant]

yeah, not too old.. as for the drobo, I never would have bought this one unless my friend at work offered it at such a good price.. he paid well over a grand for it in Jan of this year.. I got it loaded with 1tb disks for 400. I was about to spend ~400 on disks alone, so it all worked out.