Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/07/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina, if you have to carry files back and forth, how many? In this day of 32 GB flash cards, perhaps using one of those for transport would do? Surely all that physical movement cannot be good for a drive's mechanism, so something that does not have moving parts should be a good solution. Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog On Aug 1, 2009, at 12:32 AM, Tina Manley wrote: > At 04:24 PM 7/31/2009, you wrote: >> Tina, >> >> Have you looked at the drobo? (www.drobo.com). I am using redundant >> external drives, but this looks a lot simpler. >> >> Ken > > I've been using JBOD - just a bunch of disks - but I do want > something simpler. I read lots of reviews and they are all over the > place from loving the Drobo to having catastrophic failures. All in > all it seems like a good system so I've just ordered a Drobo with 4 > 1T Western Digital Green drives. I hope I did the right thing! > I'll still have to have an external drive to carry back and forth > with the files that I'm working on. Someday I'd like to have a > Drobo enclosure in both offices! > > Tina > > Tina Manley > www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information