Data Robotics Drobo Storage Robot

drak3 · 18 Jul 2008 at 13:43

I ve seen this and I wonder.

What will happen if you have 1 drive and it fails? Clearly is over, but they do not seem to strees that you need a minimum of 2 drives to be "safe". Or is there something magical I missed?

Edit: I watched a video on their site and the girl said "you can start with 2 or more drives" so I guess you need 2 minimum.

What you guys think about this product? The fact that it takes any size disks is a plus.

Slackworth · 18 Jul 2008 at 13:48

You do need 2 drives for the RAID protection to work.

drak3 · 18 Jul 2008 at 13:57

The share module only works with USB2.0

What a pity, such a nice product yet sooooo limited. Need to wait for another upgrade like they did with firewire 800 I guess.

Slackworth · 19 Jul 2008 at 12:12

If you've not got a Gigabit network then it wouldn't make huge amounts of difference anyway.