Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/14

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Subject: [Leica] Anyone using Drobo
From: alal at poly.edu (A. Lal)
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:06:25 -0400
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The complications arise from two requirements:  I need more storage than a 
single drive can provide; and the storage needs to be hooked up to a network 
so that multiple computers can access the files.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jayanand Govindaraj" <jayanand at gmail.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 9:27 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Anyone using Drobo


> Akhil,
> In that case why complicate matters? Just use external drives, like I do. 
> At
> least my data is not backed up with proprietary software that nothing else
> can decipher in case of extremis. What advantage would a Drobo bring other
> than a modicum of convenience? Would someone enlighten me, please, if I am
> missing something?
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 6:29 PM, A. Lal <alal at poly.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jayanand,
>>
>> Recovering from a crash of the hardware controller is a risk with most
>> multiple HD storage systems, I believe.
>>
>> I suppose one must have backups and backups of the backups.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Akhil
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jayanand Govindaraj" <
>> jayanand at gmail.com>
>>
>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Sent: Saturday, Septembe
>>
>
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