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#17 is the only one who gets it. It's not just an enclosure or a NAS device that "most of us can build".
WHS can duplicate data across it's drives, you can also add a USB or eSATA to the HP Mediasmart, and have it back itself up onto that so get both and plug the DROBO into the HP
(now i think this would be closer to worth it if it had a eSATA port on it.
you need 2 drobos. one at your house, one at your friend's house in case your house burns down or robbed.
#20, or 100 gigs is a tenth of a 1 TB external HD which can be purchased for ~ $100.
screw drobo, I am going to win this week's contest item the mvixbox! yeah!
its like another $200 for the network attachment to turn this thing into a NAS.
Looking for E-sata
Get the Dlink DNS343. Runs linux, media server, bittorrent server and you can upgrade with more linux services.
The older (USB-only) version is also much slower. They seriously improved performance in the new one.
Drobo's not like the RAID you're used to. You can freely add and remove drives, and it rearranges the data to fit. Doing stuff like that in traditional RAID requires backing up the data, destroying the array, creating a new array in the new layout, and restoring the data. Even Solaris's RAID-Z only supports growing the array, not shrinking it.
This is promissing, but I'll go for HP product if I can afford one - the MediaSmart or the smaller MediaVault. I know hP is gonna be around is 5 years. Lots of company that make non brand equipment in couputer components change too often and you'be stock with a product that you cannot return and no cupport...
Drobo is a neat product and certainly useful, but the price is simply unreasonable. I'm willing to pay a bit of a premium for an nicely engineered box and hassle-free interface, but come-on... for this price, I can build a monster FreeBSD server with capabilities and speeds way beyond the Drobo. These NAS manufacturers need to stop thinking their lousy 600MHz ARM processor boxes are worth ridiculous sums of money.