Drobo - Bucket loads of storage
Updated on 09 Aug 2009 by
Andy Bryant
Since I outgrew my 250MB Buffalo LinkStation, I’ve been running a low-power microATX Pentium mobile based system on Linux with a hardware RAID 5 array (4x250GB) as my home server and backup solution, however I’ve got somewhat tired of keeping the system up to date, and dealing with the cross-platform account permission issues. (Plus the proprietary power supply in the Antec case I was hosting it in just expired…)
My new solution is going to involve a Drobo device. When I saw the first gen Drobo released a couple of years ago, I was very tempted but the high price (especially in Europe) put me off. I love the concept of the Drobo - which provides RAID 5-like capabilities (or if you listen to Drobo - they describe it as BeyondRAID) without the need to keep all of the disks in the system at the same size, without the complexity of managing a RAID system.
01 Aug 2009 | tagged Drobo, NAS, RAID, storage | in Gadgets, Photography | Post a Comment 