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Newegg has the Data Robotics Drobo DR04DD10 4-Bay USB 2.0 & FireWire 800 Storage Array Enclosure for $335 in cart - $40 rebate [Exp 2/28] + $0 shipping = $295 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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This waste of overpriced hardware just keeps getting cheaper and cheaper. They cant sell them.
Its DOG slow, and the reviews show it.
Max Sustained Transfer Rate:
FireWire 800: Up to 52MB/s reads and 34MB/s writes
USB 2.0: Up to 30MB/s reads and 24MB/s writes
don't blame the drobo. that's how fast those interfaces go.
i for one welcome our USB 3.0 overlords.
I've got two and, while they are no speed demons, they perform as advertised. The ease of setup and the way in which users can just pop out drives and replace them with larger ones to increase capacity make it a very good product.
There are faster alternatives but they are either more expensive or less elegant in their abilities to upgrade capacities.
Exactly. Why would anyone buy a non-esata, or non gigabit drive of any kind?
Now, if only Windows didn't dump a 2TB/partition limit on them. It'd be worth paying up if they came up with a better filesystem than offered in regular OS's. Something a bit more like ZFS, with total data+meta integrity checking, and will pick the GOOD copy from a RAID disagreeing with itself. Something without a "write hole". Something with a functional shadow copy history (how well does Vista's incremental backup thin itself when full?).
You can buy a complete 4 drive homeserver with a 1tb drive for about this price. This thing isn't even networkable as it sits.
No hot swap no deal....
Good concept, but the overhead is huge to allow recovery from a drive failure. Also, the reviews are definitely mixed. A bunch of people have complained about losing data.
Except for the ubiquitous Windows Home Server appliances that operate in this space for the same amount of money with far greater capabilities.
While WHS may be a wonderful product, it may not be the best choice for everyone. Its method of backing up results in the use of far more disk space than the Drobo (if you choose to backup everything so that if a drive fails you won't lose any data). Also, it doesn't support AFP.
WHS = No RAID = No Way