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I give Drobo a cautious thumbs up.
It works like it says on the can most of the time. There are issues with Os X 10.8. In particular, when the thing goes into standby mode you usually have to restart your desktop (at least if it is connected by ethernet). The firewire connection is fast and I guess the next generation with thunderbolt will be fantastic.
The RAID implementation is robuts and I have swapped out one drive without incident.
Support is minimal although they have a pretty good website.
I have an eight drive unit loaded with 2Tb drives. I agree with JK about not using bigger drives.
I was thinking about daisychaining a couple of Promise Pegasus R4 16 TB Raid 5/6 4x4 TB units but will now be saving my pennies for a D4x in the Fall
