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#1
ibm650 - Posted 4:19 pm PDT 09/17/09 (350 Posts)
Scary, scary reviews
#2
mcnabney - Posted 4:48 pm PDT 09/17/09 (213 Posts)
Still too much money for a 'smart' external enclosure. It isn't even a NAS (no ethernet).
#3
- - Posted 6:48 pm PDT 09/17/09 (52 Posts)
#1: Could you point us to some of the reviews to which you're referring? I'm considering one of these (well, a DroboPro, actually), but haven't done any serious research yet.
#4
NotBen - Posted 6:49 pm PDT 09/17/09 (797 Posts)
Just set up an Unraid box, can run the 3 disk edition for free.
#5
durkzilla - Posted 7:51 pm PDT 09/17/09 (605 Posts)
Go read the reviews on newegg.com, #3. Click on the "Click Here" link way up there on the top right side of this page.
#6
- - Posted 8:13 pm PDT 09/17/09 (52 Posts)
#5. Thank you. Some of those reviews are scary indeed. I'll see if reviews of the DroboPro are as similar...
#7
revenant - Posted 10:16 pm PDT 09/17/09 (205 Posts)
I have a first gen drobo with 4x 1tb wd green drives hanging off my wd tv and am liking it a lot so far.. it's only got USB2.0 so I have to mount it on my PC to move files around, but that's not too bad.. seems to do it's job pretty well. It's kind of non traditional raid, I call it a "data management system" as it's always calculating where your data should be on it's available disks to maximize redundancy.. anyways.. I think it's pretty cool.
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