Comments on: Drobo, A Multi-Drive Autonomous Data Storage Robot

By: sim

sim — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:38:25 +0000

to paul: i’m guessing it’s more like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed-Solomon_error_correction

By: Lane Hartwell » The Drobo

Lane Hartwell » The Drobo — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:13:21 +0000

[...] Scott Bealeâ€™s review here: http://laughingsquid.com/drobo-a-multi-drive-autonomous-data-storage-robot/ [...]

By: Invasion! The Drobos Are Coming!-- bub.blicio.us

Invasion! The Drobos Are Coming!-- bub.blicio.us — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 20:44:55 +0000

[...] What is Drobo? The relatively small machine combines up to four hard drives into one pool of protected storage. For more on Drobo, check out Scott Beale’s great write-up. [...]

By: Laughing Squid » Drobo Invasion Party Photos

Laughing Squid » Drobo Invasion Party Photos — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:17:17 +0000

[...] Robotics, the company that makes the super cool Drobo data storage robot (here’s my Drobo write-up), had a Drobo Invasion Party last night at Varnish Fine Art in San Francisco. The party, which had [...]

By: Joe Reifer

Joe Reifer — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 03:41:13 +0000

You might want to have a look at professional photographer Doug Plummer's report on his experience with Drobo. - JR

By: paul

paul — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 18:41:08 +0000

I’m a little confused on how the demo says that if a drive fails, you won’t lose any data. Does that mean this device is writing redundant copies of your files to all 4 drives? If so, you’re pretty much limited to the size of the smallest drive then, right?

By: Melicia

Melicia — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:30:14 +0000

I have and this thing is SOOOO much easier to use than the ReadyNAS product! I’m selling my ReadyNAS on eBay now…

By: dmitry kohmanyuk

dmitry kohmanyuk — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:43:24 +0000

check out Infrant ReadyNAS product. They were recently bought by Netgear.

By: Lori

Lori — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:03:25 +0000

Gah, I wish I’d seen this over the weekend, when I was agonizing over data storage. So neat!

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:37:42 +0000

that thing is absolutely amazing! I want one right away. I just lost a usb hdd that I used for backups… and this woulda saved my ass!