http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/ Engadget Comments for Drobo (second-gen) mini-review http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/Jul 8th 2008 8:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/Jul 8th 2008 8:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/Jul 8th 2008 9:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/Is this not basically a computer?]]>Jul 8th 2008 9:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/Ya, good point. Maybe the company name isn't suggesting it's a robot, but rather a Data Robot. Still just a fancy name for "Computer".]]>Jul 8th 2008 9:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/]]>Jul 8th 2008 9:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/Jul 8th 2008 9:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/Jul 9th 2008 4:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/
oh well, dual firewire is good. just hope Ubuntu full supports the dual firewire.]]>Jul 8th 2008 3:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/Jul 8th 2008 9:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/
OMFG - you left out the best news of all -- crazy deals on Drobo plus drives

Drobo plus 0 TB: $499
Drobo of two 1 TB: $899
Drobo plus four 1 TB: $1,299

This beats the crap out of Infrant ReadyNAS -- the Infrant with 4 TB costs $2,999. Instead of a ReadyNAS, I can buy a Firewire Drobo, *and* a Macbook, plus a Mac mini *and* still have $2.00 left over.

Wow.
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the Drobo still doesn't quite "beat the crap" out of the ReadyNas. At least not yet.]]>Jul 8th 2008 10:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/The WHS is $690 at amazon but I paid $590 for the 2X500GB version almost a year ago and it trumps the drobo in so many ways. And don't bring up the stupid data corruption thing. It is VERY minor and will be corrected soon.]]>Jul 8th 2008 12:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/Jul 9th 2008 12:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/Jul 10th 2008 12:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/
...but yes Netgear are ripping you off if you buy the drives with them.]]>Jul 18th 2008 5:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/
...but yes Netgear are ripping you off if you buy the drives with them.]]>Jul 18th 2008 5:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/Jul 8th 2008 9:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/Jul 8th 2008 10:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/Jul 8th 2008 9:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/Jul 8th 2008 9:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/
You sure are naive.]]>Jul 8th 2008 11:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/Jul 8th 2008 11:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/Love Drobo for the features it does have
Hate Drobo for what it doesn't
-REALLY easy to use. Large, ready to go capacity
There's not much middle ground.
-No network. No media server software

ReadyNAS is -exactly- the opposite on each point

Guess I'll wait longer still]]>Jul 8th 2008 9:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/Jul 8th 2008 9:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/
Firewire 800 on the device, but the Droboshare will still only connect via USB2.0????

Am I the only one that just wants to scream at Data Robotics "WHAT??!! Are you insane?!"

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I guess you can buy a new drobe, but are they backwards compatible?

So basically you need to backup you data. Well I guess you can buy two drobos right away...]]>Jul 8th 2008 9:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/Jul 8th 2008 11:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/
What was throughput before hand? What were the test drives? What is the new throughput? How long was the 1.25GB file transfer?

I am disappointed in this article. It gives no meaningful data.]]>Jul 8th 2008 9:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/Jul 8th 2008 10:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/Jul 8th 2008 11:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/Jul 8th 2008 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/Jul 8th 2008 10:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/Jul 8th 2008 10:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/Jul 8th 2008 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/Jul 8th 2008 3:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/Jul 23rd 2008 11:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/Jul 8th 2008 10:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/
For me, it boils down to the fact that connecting the Drobo directly to my machine is a) faster for my primary machine and perfectly fine for the rest of the network, and b) more configurable.

If the choice is between adding cost & complexity to the base product or offering it as an add-on via the DroboShare, I favour the latter... but yes, I wish the Drobo & DroboShare were connected via a faster link than USB 2.0.]]>Jul 8th 2008 11:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/Jul 8th 2008 10:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/Jul 8th 2008 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/Jul 8th 2008 11:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/
More expensive, but I want my ports damnit! Is a gigabit ethernet port too much to ask???]]>Jul 8th 2008 11:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/Jul 8th 2008 11:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/08/drobo-second-gen-mini-review/Jul 8th 2008 11:09AM