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

[Peter Dzwig]

Another, and cheaper option, which I implemented some time ago was to 
build a RAID10-based NAS image server (it could store anything but I 
just keep images there) using a Rapberry Pi and terabyte thumb drives 
physically connected  via a fast switch and using my local fast Wifi LAN.

Instructions are online in several places.

Regards,

Peter

On 17/05/2024 00:24, Brian Reid 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.
> 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.
> 
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Dr. Peter Dzwig