Yeah seriously. You are looking at something like at least $700 (with 2 decent drives) for an array that can only pump 22 MB/s according to their website. If they could speed it up to close to that of the speed of the slowest drive the value would increase. The bottom line is if I am paying $500 for a redundant BYOD (bring your own disks) system, it had better be quick and feature an eSATA connection.
A much more cost effective option is to use the open source home networking offering from www.amahi.org -- use your own hardware, and get all that Drobo offers (and more!)
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Danakin @ Jul 2nd 2008 3:03PM
OMG, it all comes down to price...
Danakin @ Jul 2nd 2008 3:15PM
on second though...screw this..."I would rather just use a real computer and have full control of everything" - Bob
j_g_puff @ Jul 2nd 2008 3:45PM
Well, that and the 'choice' of NTFS, FAT32 or HFS+...
BluesK1d @ Jul 3rd 2008 11:26AM
Yeah seriously. You are looking at something like at least $700 (with 2 decent drives) for an array that can only pump 22 MB/s according to their website. If they could speed it up to close to that of the speed of the slowest drive the value would increase. The bottom line is if I am paying $500 for a redundant BYOD (bring your own disks) system, it had better be quick and feature an eSATA connection.
team.amahi @ Jul 3rd 2008 2:05PM
A much more cost effective option is to use the open source home networking offering from www.amahi.org -- use your own hardware, and get all that Drobo offers (and more!)