http://www.podtech.net/scobleshow/techn ... ur-storage
http://www.drobo.com/
Good solution for external storage and backup ! What do you think ?
kabuki
DROBO - Want one ;)
Hi.
- typical american plug'n'play
- RAID system (which RAID ... no clue)
- hot pluggable (nothing new on server market)
- what about the cooling?
- any drive capacity waste in case of unequal disk capacities?
Very interesting and apparently nicely fitted into existing PC system.
Bottom line ... server RAID technology made ready for big public ready.
I'd prefer a PC based RAID 5/6 system, even if not portable.
- typical american plug'n'play
- RAID system (which RAID ... no clue)
- hot pluggable (nothing new on server market)
- what about the cooling?
- any drive capacity waste in case of unequal disk capacities?
Very interesting and apparently nicely fitted into existing PC system.
Bottom line ... server RAID technology made ready for big public ready.
I'd prefer a PC based RAID 5/6 system, even if not portable.
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It has apparently all features of raid, with the added advantage that you can mix all sizes of disks and it only takes the size of the biggest disk as unusable space. according to the demos (watch the one with scoble) it gives you more diskspace in case you mix disk sizes as in a raid setup.
Btw they say it isn't raid technology in their device. The only risk you have is 2 disks failing at the same time....I can live with that.
I it continues getting rave reviews i might order one. they cost 500 dollar at the moment.
Btw they say it isn't raid technology in their device. The only risk you have is 2 disks failing at the same time....I can live with that.
I it continues getting rave reviews i might order one. they cost 500 dollar at the moment.
... that's also the case for classical RAID.kabuki wrote:It has apparently all features of raid, with the added advantage that you can mix all sizes of disks ...
That's strange.kabuki wrote:... and it only takes the size of the biggest disk as unusable space.
That would be RAID 5. For RAID 6, 2 disks can fail.kabuki wrote:according to the demos (watch the one with scoble) it gives you more diskspace in case you mix disk sizes as in a raid setup.
Btw they say it isn't raid technology in their device. The only risk you have is 2 disks failing at the same time....I can live with that.
Just drobo, without any disk? 500$?kabuki wrote:I it continues getting rave reviews i might order one. they cost 500 dollar at the moment.