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#1
skchan2 - Posted 8:40 am PDT 08/12/09 (7 Posts)
hope these things get cheaper...
#2
gwash - Posted 8:50 am PDT 08/12/09 (78 Posts)
I dream of Drobo
#3
samcoyote - Posted 8:59 am PDT 08/12/09 (1 Posts)
Gee, it's only $349 at Amazon, free shipping, and a $50 rebate to boot (ie, $299 shipped) Search for B001CZ9ZEE
#4
dcraw999 - Posted 9:05 am PDT 08/12/09 (11 Posts)
drobo's are nice, but RAID is not backup, consider buying 2 so you have a full backup copy too.
#5
johnnylately - Posted 9:35 am PDT 08/12/09 (701 Posts)
Drobo, heal thyself!
#6
tekgk - Posted 9:51 am PDT 08/12/09 (63 Posts)
Another $100 off and we're cooking.
#7
DrumDude - Posted 10:00 am PDT 08/12/09 (336 Posts)
Get a DNS-323 instead...works great!
#8
viking2010 - Posted 10:27 am PDT 08/12/09 (96 Posts)
Why is this a deal? As pointed out #3 it's avail for less elsewhere.
#9
pastrychef - Posted 10:45 am PDT 08/12/09 (263 Posts)
In my opinion, the Drobo is much better than a DNS-323.
#10
Philster - Posted 11:34 am PDT 08/12/09 (802 Posts)
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D-link? D-stink!
#11
mostlycrap - Posted 11:34 am PDT 08/12/09 (124 Posts)
nerd geek at office constantly wets himself whenever he talks about this thing. I dont know if this is true or not but I remember him mentioning that you can stick different size drives in there and it will automatically know how to link them together or some doohicky like that.
#12
viking2010 - Posted 12:46 pm PDT 08/12/09 (96 Posts)
It does some neat stuff buy at $300+ empty does it really make sense? For most people I would think a rather generic NAS enclosure would be fine. Maybe the prebuilt ones from Buffalo?
#13
cwins - Posted 1:17 pm PDT 08/12/09 (169 Posts)
i'm with #12.
these things are pretty sweet, just waaaay over priced.
youd be much better off getting something more basic from Synology or QNAP or someone like that.
Note that this is *not* a NAS by default. You need to spend another $100-200 for the network adapter which i believe only operates at up to 100Mbps, no gigabit support (could be wrong there...)
these things are pretty sweet, just waaaay over priced.
youd be much better off getting something more basic from Synology or QNAP or someone like that.
Note that this is *not* a NAS by default. You need to spend another $100-200 for the network adapter which i believe only operates at up to 100Mbps, no gigabit support (could be wrong there...)
#14
nicholjo - Posted 4:03 pm PDT 08/12/09 (100 Posts)
Seriously? $300 with no drives or network? Seems overpriced.
#15
natedogg - Posted 7:06 pm PDT 08/12/09 (46 Posts)
would love one of these if it was a NAS and MUCH cheaper. This is still too expensive
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