Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On the Drobo front my son wrote this to me: I really liked Andy Ihnatko's explanation/review: http://ihnatko.com/index.php/2008/02/18/sun-times-drobo-and-droboshare/ 1) The Drobo acts as its own backup against drive failures. See above. If you have all four slots filled, you can lose two mechanisms without losing any data, according to the company. Lose one, and (just as I said) you won't even know it until you glance over and see that one of its status lights has gone red. Lose two, and Drobo will calmly excuse itself from the room so it can have a good, long cry?but when it comes back online, it comes back with all of your data. Obvious weakness: with four mechanisms in the same physical location and hooked up to the same bus and power supply, an external problem (like a drop or a power surge) that takes out one drive can take out all of them at once. To say nothing about a fire or a burglary at the house. So there's still the usual, common-sense need for backups and offsite storage, but that's still a huge win. I'm learning a lot from this discussion Adam On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 8:44 AM, George Hartzell <hartzell@alerce.com> wrote: > Jeff Moore writes: > > 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? > > > > http://www.readynas.com/ > > > > Now these, I know and trust. By no means wickedly speedy, but entirely > > decent performance for a network-attached device, and priced > > appropriately [...] > > I can second the thumbs up for the Readynas. Mine's certainly not > going to set any speed records, and they made a batch with flakey > power supplies but did the right thing about it. They do a good job > of balancing "simple to configure" against "can do complex things". > > I use mine for my Time Machine backups, wireless most of the time, > wired if I know that I've changed a lot and need the bandwidth. It's > not officially supported but the Mac section of www.readynas.com has > the recipe. It's nice to get back home, open the lid of the macbook > pro and notice that it's automagically doing a backup for me. > > g. > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >