I've got a Drobo here in my office that I use as a onsite hot swap if my
primary compute power goes "bill gates". I sync to it periodically enough
that I could plug it into any other box in the house, share and I'm on the
air in minutes...

My config is 1-tb's in all drawers, raid-5... Problem is with that size
array you have to split it into 2 virts cuz windoze can't handle the size so
I have droboa and drobob...

The problems I keep having with this 2 month old box is that it will
powercycle itself randomly, it will drop one of the 2 partitions totally and
randomly, it is INCREDIBLY SLOW - (MUCH SLOWER Than just simple USB-2
attached external drives using the drobo provided firewire
connection!!!!!!!)

I would be very selective how I use it in a production environment and most
definitely not for critical apps...

Usually I just powercycle the drobo with it does a bill gates on me and it
spins up fine and is re-recognized by windoze fine...

I'll write a review on it and experiences on my webber shortly when I get
that cranked up for product reviews next month.

But for a CYA, it should work as a short term stop gap for me and my needs
here...and the space is nice...:)

D.Rima

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Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 1:22 PM
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Drobo (was: Netgear ReadyNAS Pro?)

Hmmm...

Interesting. I had heard about the Drobo but have yet to part with my $$$
to get one. I had thought that if I was going to get one I should get the
DroboShare to go with it. I had heard the "I love my Drobo" comments
before but this is the first negative press that I've seen. I'm not too
concerned about the one-year warranty. Usually, for something like that
it's either broken from the start or works right out of the box and runs
forever. I would agree that it stinks to have to pay for firmware
updates. Maybe it's a new business model? ...hopefully one that doesn't
catch on. Maybe the company may have some cash flow problems and this is
their way of generating some revenue?


Dave Parnin

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