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I'm still skeptical.. esp when I can buy 4 500gb hd's and a raid controller for less than this puppy.]]>Apr 13th 2007 11:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/13/drobo-unboxed-and-dissected-in-one-fell-swoop/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/13/drobo-unboxed-and-dissected-in-one-fell-swoop/http://www.drobo.com/drobolator/
Add 4 500gb HDs .... now, add 1 1TB HD ... notice how the space does not increase? You have to add 2 1TB HDs before you get any more space, and then you only get 400gb more.... for 2 TB of space added... Now, you do see a marked increase when you put in 3 1 TB drives, but I thought the point was to add drives as you needed, not needing to add several, like RAID 5 on the ReadyNas, you have to upgrade all 4 drives to get the increase in space ... but at least you can add 1 drive at a time to the system... you just need to wait for each to rebuild, then when the 4th one goes in, tadah, you now have 2.5 TB of space instead of 1.5 TB of space... Does not seem like the Drobo is giving that much... unless you just have a couple of drives now.... and you will add more later.... hmmm... now, if you had an 8 drive Drobo.....]]>Apr 14th 2007 12:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/13/drobo-unboxed-and-dissected-in-one-fell-swoop/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/13/drobo-unboxed-and-dissected-in-one-fell-swoop/http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1431869&CatId=1454

I know it isn't the full features set... but this is RAID Card that allows differnt size hard drives to be attached internally in your computer for fault safe operation. Its $24.99... This "drobo" is way over priced. Anybody have experience with a device like this? Its worth it just for the additional IDE Ports...]]>Apr 14th 2007 12:58AM