Does this take some beating?

Faustus · 2 Jul 2007 at 08:31

On the subject of external storage and if money were no object the most impressive setup I have seen in a long time is Drobo

Here

Anyone any views on the above

Faustus · 2 Jul 2007 at 21:21

Faustus said:
On the subject of external storage and if money were no object the most impressive setup I have seen in a long time is Drobo

Here

Anyone any views on the above

Is there only me that has heard of this marvel, is no one interested in HD storage anymore, or is no one participating on these forums any longer? There could have course be an alternative explanation given the time of year - everyones sat drinking lager in Benidorm :eek:

fobose · 2 Jul 2007 at 21:27

Saw it the other day, its about £250 tho, and its only USB! Plus I no longer trust USB external drives.

Faustus · 2 Jul 2007 at 22:29

fobose said:
Saw it the other day, its about £250 tho, and its only USB! Plus I no longer trust USB external drives.

Can one ask why you no longer trust USB drives?

TheKnat · 2 Jul 2007 at 22:45

I been keeping an eye on this for a while, but until it goes NAS then I'm not really interested

ByteJuggler · 3 Jul 2007 at 18:12

Yeah, if it was Firewire 800 or ideally e-SATA I would've also been more interested. As it is, it's too much hassle to have humongous amounts of storage behind a USB2.0 cable.

Faustus · 3 Jul 2007 at 20:05

Hmm! pity that as it does look the business. What are peoples views on external drives i.e. to just have the blank storage and use a 3rd party backup utility like Acronis, or to use some of the latest drives where a pre-installed utility like Memeo automatically takes care of all your backup worries. I've noticed the newer type appear to start up when the PC starts up and shuts down when the PC shuts down and backs up in real time in the background only changing files as you change them.

rpstewart · 3 Jul 2007 at 20:10

Personally I don't see the point in real time backups, it's just RAID1 by another name and does absolutely nothing to prevent human error. You have backups for two reasons 1) to recover from hardware failure and 2) to recover from when you overwrite your CV.