I got a Drobo and love it. Had a few hiccups when I first set it up, but it turned out to be a bad 500GB drive. Apparently the Drobo doesn't recognize that fact when it is first formatted. I reformatted with the 3 good 400GB drives and then added the 500GB drive. It immediately told me it was bad. Pretty slick.
USB is slow, of course. Don't use this version of the Drobo for anything that requires massive speeds. I have it connected to my home Mac that is mainly used as a file server. It also backs-up my photos, songs, etc. so that I know they're safe.
All-in-all, this is much better than my old RAID array. Very easy to use and fast enough for just about everything I've needed it for. I'd love to see a Firewire version or NAS, but that will probably come.
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I got a Drobo and love it. Had a few hiccups when I first set it up, but it turned out to be a bad 500GB drive. Apparently the Drobo doesn't recognize that fact when it is first formatted. I reformatted with the 3 good 400GB drives and then added the 500GB drive. It immediately told me it was bad. Pretty slick.
USB is slow, of course. Don't use this version of the Drobo for anything that requires massive speeds. I have it connected to my home Mac that is mainly used as a file server. It also backs-up my photos, songs, etc. so that I know they're safe.
All-in-all, this is much better than my old RAID array. Very easy to use and fast enough for just about everything I've needed it for. I'd love to see a Firewire version or NAS, but that will probably come.