Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/01/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A few years ago, I bought a used Drobo with 4x 2TB drives for network backup. The drives were a few years old already at that time, but the price was good. A year ago, one drive died. Drobo just gave some warnings that I should replace it. I purchased a 4TB drive. Replaced it without even having to power off and a day or two later after the Drobo did its magic, everything is working fine again. No data loss, no down time. Unfortunately, although that 4TB drive supposed to have a 3 year warranty, it died! Then another of the older 2TB drive died and the system is "critically low in storage". So I bought 2x 3TB drives, plugged them in, and a couple days later, everything is again normal. Again no data loss, no down time. The only downside is that you only get ~60% of the storage, but this is common with redundant storage. I understand that RAID is great for enterprise, but for small business / personal use, I can highly recommend Drobo. A few years, I used a RAID something external drive for backup and either the controller or one of the drives died and took the whole system down with it with no chance of recovery. I understand that people more savvy with RAID tech can probably figure out what's going on, but Drobo is painless. Well worth the cost, IMO. -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> // http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto // https://instagram.com/richardmanphoto