[Leica] [Leica} Drobos... If you have them what can you expect?

[reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us (Brian Reid)]

Frank speaks the truth, and persuasively. If you use Drobo, mind his 
words carefully.

For many years I used ReadyNAS LAN-connected storage devices. A Drobo 
competitor.
When I saw ReadyNAS circling the drain a few years ago, I spent a lot of 
time trying to figure out what to do next.
With Drobo in an equally advanced state of disintegration, it seemed to 
me at that time that migrating to yet another vendor of storage 
appliances (such as Synology) would be more risk than I was willing to 
take, so I bought what is in the industry called a JBOD (Just a Bunch Of 
Disks), and set it up with ZFS RaidZ3 and a 10 GB/sec LAN connection. I 
have a Supermicro-based DIY with a dozen 18-TB Seagate Exos SATA-III 
drives, running FreeBSD 14. I've had it up and running for about a year, 
and I'm happy with it. If I didn't know how to build things like this, I 
would have moved to Synology.

I've also been watching Synology, and it looks to be sound, stable, and 
long-lived. My only worry would be that the company is based in Taiwan, 
and China has been acting strangely about Taiwan.