It was love at first sight with Drobo. The smart hard drive enclosure was the (albeit more expensive than we had hoped) answer to our questions of "Why doesn't someone make a smart NAS with good expandability and let me worry about getting the drives. Make it have easy to configure setup and expandable while you are at it?"
Drobo has been getting a little better and better for the past year. First a Firewire 800 version, then Droboshare, a stand alone Drobo NAS maker (Can control two Drobos). Now Drobo has gone and become a platform with Drobo Apps.
Drobo is based on Linux and the developers have opened the platform for the development of little bits of functionality done by 3rd party programmers. Currently there are about 30 apps. Favorites include:
The Drobo development SDK is available in case you have the next great NAS idea.
Slightly annoying but also slightly instructional video here.
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Isn't that spelled kühl?
I just wish they were faster
I just wish they were faster
More performance please
So true Kevin. If only Drobo weren't a slow mover. I still can't get Firewire 800 working at full speed under Win XP SP3, and it's hard to notice Firewire 800 performance under Leopard because Drobo is so pokey. I'm tempted to throw in some SSDs to see if my Drobo experience can get any better.
I rather have a ReadyNAS
I rather have a ReadyNAS Pro
It can also do the thing whit the diffrent size disks, but you don't have to look at some ligths and guess how mutch space you have left
http://www.netgear.com/Products/Storage/ReadyNASPro/RNDP6610.aspx?detail...
Second here for the ReadyNAS.
Second here for the ReadyNAS. I have a NV, and the thing is a tank. Has never failed me, and I just recently expanded the array to 4 1TB using their X-RAID. Flawless. All my data was transfered over.
Slow and expensive
With less money, you could buy two drives each of higher capacity and speed, and then just mirror them for protection and you end up with a faster, more reliable, and cheaper solution to the Drobo.
I still don't understand why people are ga-ga over this product.