[Leica] Anyone using Drobo

[alal at poly.edu (A. Lal)]

No, I was not concerned about the drives, that is not a problem. I assume 
the Drobo or Ready NAS, has  adequate protection against the failure of one 
or two drives.

My question was about the failure of the NAS box. If the NAS box fails, but 
the drives check out as good, can the drives just be plugged into another 
sample of  the same model NAS box to get the system up and running?  Also, 
what happens if the particular NAS is no longer made. Will the drives 
function in a different model from the same manufacturer? With Drobo, the 
link Jayanand posted indicated forward compatibility. I'd like to know how 
the ReadyNAS would function in the same scenario.




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frank Filippone" <red735i at earthlink.net>
To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 9:56 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Anyone using Drobo


>I think there are 2 different objectives here....
>
> First, pick the right drives.....  Netlink ( ReadyNAS) has published a 
> list of "approved" drives....and that list is not quite the cheapest 
> drives out there.... Brian once said that he would ( does?) pick 
> Enterprise drives.... which are more robustly built and cost only about 
> 50% more..   Since drives are now running about $50-75 per TB, 50% 
> increase is not that big a cost differential....
>
> Second.... strategies to redundantly keep your data... something I am 
> still learning about...
>
> Frank Filippone
> Red735i at earthlink.net
>
>
> I am interested to know how one protects against HW failure of the NAS 
> box.
> Any options other than multiple back ups?
>
>
>
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