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I just bought seven of these for raid 6.

I give these out as Halloween trinkets....

i drive a dodge stratus

I have a life .

I'm assuming that this is not a good product/price.

build your own Windows Home Server for cheaper with more flexibility. It's just as easy to set up as the drobo but allows you to be more in control.

I never trust these black box solutions when it comes to data protection. Apparently they use some sort of proprietary RAID-ology to make it all work. But when things go south, who knows if you'll always be able to retrieve your data. It's all just a big mystery -- you plug 'em in, you pull 'em out, then pray. At least w/ traditional hands-on RAID, I know what I have and have a numerous ways to recover from failures. Sometimes solutions are just too clever for their own good.

#8, when your home is on fire, you won't have time to pray and you just grab the box and run. And BTW, why did you type too much?

Which is more likely, the house burns down or the data proves unrecoverable one day? It's all about the percentages. Case closed.

#7 is right. When I first heard about the Drobo, I was fascinated. I almost ordered one the same day. But then I started thinking about the proprietary RAID and the fact that I am relying on one small company to make sure my data is recoverable. They do have a good idea, but too risky for me.

#8, do you talk to yourself often?

I have 2 of these. 1 at work for 30 users on a win2k3 server and one at home connected to a mac mini as a media server.

The work one is connected via FW800
The home one is connected via USB2

USB2, MAC, & DROBO are known to be buggy as the drobo will randomly disconnect and transfer speeds ~ 4MB/s

The work one on the other hand has been running for months with NO hiccups and is used 8 hours a day 5 hours a week very heavily serivng all our data. Speeds AVG 20 MB/s

Yes, I'm concered about the proprietary BeyondRAID, but thats why I make regular backups. Both at home and @ work.

#7 it is a virtual storage solution to achieve the "RAID" solution, hence why you can add any sized drive into the Drobo and utilize the space.

www.freenas.org

Nuff Said!!!

Slow and expensive. For home use you might as well just use a desktop system with Win2k or XP on it as you're not likely to push the connection # limitation often, no need for Windows Home server for protecting data and remember, one of WHS's primary marketing points is a feature that was known to corrupt data. Supposedly that has been fixed, but supposedly security in IE has also been fixed, and fixed, and fixed, and fixed, and fixed and

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