Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]the guys at pixelcorps speak highly of them. hot swappable and expandable redundancy. ric On Aug 18, 2008, at 8:54 PM, Jeff Moore wrote: > 2008-08-18-19:59:42 Jeff Moore: >> 2008-08-18-18:50:33 Ric Carter: >>> what about Drobo? >> >> Never used a Drobo. >> >> Is that the dumbed-down second-city version of an Infrant ReadyNAS? > > Okay, I was flippant, and answered before I'd looked at the Drobo > website again. I could swear that the last time I looked at them, at > least a year ago I think, their product was a NAS (for Rabiner: > Network > Attached Storage) device. Now it looks as if they make little > outboard > RAID arrays in which the RAIDness is hidden away inside the box and > the > box presents the image of the resulting single disk as the thing you > plug into your computer -- or, in an interesting factoring of > functionality, plug into a little NASsifying box they also sell. Kind > of cute. > > For some cranky, maybe-irrational, maybe subconsciously intuitive > reason, I just don't trust 'em. Their makers seem to be trying too > hard > to make them cute, to appeal to the technically illiterate, and I find > myself bristling the way I did when I encountered some of that nasty > badly-made and indifferent-sounding but thoroughly > metal-and-glass-styled (and pricey) Bang & Olufsen stereo equipment a > couple-three decades ago. > > But maybe it's just curmudgeonliness on my part. Been known to > happen.. > > -Jeff > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information