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

[John McMaster]

I ran a couple of ReadyNAS years ago, swapped to a couple of Synology boxes over a decade ago (8 bay with the old ReadyNAS drives and a 5 bay with new larger drives).  They are getting unreliable now (had to repair them for the Atom chip issue where you solder a resistor to the motherboard), and I will be replacing them with a couple of the higher end 2 bay Synologys.   With 2 bay (RAID 1) if one disk dies the other disk is still readable (same as RAID 5 which I use now, but without the striping of data).  If you buy all your disks at the same time/source they are likely to be from the same batch, with the same MTBF.......

john

On 16/05/2024, 23:24, "LUG on behalf of Brian Reid" <lug-bounces+john=mcmaster.co.uk at leica-users.org on behalf of reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us> wrote:

    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.

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    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.