Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/10/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That looks to be a propriety version (Infrant/Netgear use X-RAID), but it is basically a RAID 5 with extras, so you can suffer the loss of a single disk without losing data. Often worthwhile to have a spare disk close by as disks are usually bought at the same time, which implies the same batch, so if one starts to fail it may not be alone..... john ________________________________________ From: lug-bounces+john=chiaroscuro.co.nz at leica-users.org [lug-bounces+john=chiaroscuro.co.nz at leica-users.org] on behalf of Tina Manley [images at comporium.net] Sent: Monday, 1 November 2010 12:23 p.m. To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: RAID Question Well, they say it is BeyondRAID: http://www.drobo.com/resources/beyondraid.php I guess that's just their advertising, though, and they do recommend the WD Green drives. Tina On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 7:11 PM, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> wrote: > I think (hope!) that you are wrong. If it was not a RAID, then each of the > disks would be autonomous and you would not be able to upgrade the way that > you described earlier (by replacing one at a time and waiting 24 hours for > the rebuild). > > john > ________________________________________ > > Drobo is not really a raid, though, I don't think. > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information ------------------------------------------------------------ Mail was checked for spam by the Freeware Edition of CleanMail. The Freeware Edition is free for personal and non-commercial use. You can remove this notice by purchasing a full license!