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Scott Kelby has been publicly recommending Drobo for years, but has done an amazing U turn and released this:
http://scottkelby.com/2012/im-done-with-drobo/
Seems he has been hit with the problem I remember a lot of folk here describing - the proprietary system which when it fails leaves you high and dry.
Interesting for me as I was considering getting one to replace my cheap NAS. I imagine this will hurt their business quite a bit as he is well read in the circles that might have bought their product.
I haven't looked at prices lately, but when I did a few years ago, the Drobo units were way more than even LaCie. I bought a 4tb LaCie and it's been flawless. Rather than have real RAID in one box, I opted for 2 boxes at two locations and use an old very small drive to transport the incremental updates and add them to the second drive.
Even with a great RAID system, you run the risk of destruction of the location. To me RAID only makes sense for transactional databases that need real time back up to perform the mission. Photo backup is actually pretty static and doesn't get much benefit from RAID imho...
Tom
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