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Posted at 8:30 AM on Wednesday 08/12/09 by
Ben
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Buy.com has the Data Robotics Drobo DR04DD10 4-Bay USB 2.0 & FireWire 800 Storage Array Enclosure for $360 + $12 shipping = $372 shipped. Drobo's built-in software automatically self-heals around drive failures and data errors and expands capacity dynamically when you add a drive. [Compare]
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    skchan2 - Posted 8:40 am PDT 08/12/09 (19 Posts)  Report Spam

    hope these things get cheaper...

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    gwash - Posted 8:50 am PDT 08/12/09 (78 Posts)  Report Spam

    I dream of Drobo

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    samcoyote - Posted 8:59 am PDT 08/12/09 (1 Posts)  Report Spam

    Gee, it's only $349 at Amazon, free shipping, and a $50 rebate to boot (ie, $299 shipped) Search for B001CZ9ZEE

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    dcraw999 - Posted 9:05 am PDT 08/12/09 (11 Posts)  Report Spam

    drobo's are nice, but RAID is not backup, consider buying 2 so you have a full backup copy too.

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    johnnylately - Posted 9:35 am PDT 08/12/09 (1020 Posts)  Report Spam

    Drobo, heal thyself!

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    tekgk - Posted 9:51 am PDT 08/12/09 (67 Posts)  Report Spam

    Another $100 off and we're cooking.

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    DrumDude - Posted 10:00 am PDT 08/12/09 (429 Posts)  Report Spam

    Get a DNS-323 instead...works great!

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    viking2010 - Posted 10:27 am PDT 08/12/09 (101 Posts)  Report Spam

    Why is this a deal? As pointed out #3 it's avail for less elsewhere.

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    pastrychef - Posted 10:45 am PDT 08/12/09 (353 Posts)  Report Spam

    In my opinion, the Drobo is much better than a DNS-323.

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    Philster - Posted 11:34 am PDT 08/12/09 (802 Posts)  Report Spam

    D-link? D-stink!

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    mostlycrap - Posted 11:34 am PDT 08/12/09 (127 Posts)  Report Spam

    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.

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    viking2010 - Posted 12:46 pm PDT 08/12/09 (101 Posts)  Report Spam

    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?

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    cwins - Posted 1:17 pm PDT 08/12/09 (218 Posts)  Report Spam

    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...)

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    nicholjo - Posted 4:03 pm PDT 08/12/09 (103 Posts)  Report Spam

    Seriously? $300 with no drives or network? Seems overpriced.

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    natedogg - Posted 7:06 pm PDT 08/12/09 (47 Posts)  Report Spam

    would love one of these if it was a NAS and MUCH cheaper. This is still too expensive

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