Drobo, the "world's first storage robot"

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earthling @ Apr 9th 2007 11:45PM

Yeah, the whole thing is a bit strange. First, what Drobo isn't is a RAID system. What it is supposed to be is drive virtualization. If you buy into their underlying pitch which is a virtualized storage system (let us manage your storage pool) then its okay (I guess). I would need some convincing about their 'protected states' and how bulletproof they are. In the video demo they adding and subtracting drives with very little data in place. I would like to see what happens when the disks are near capacity. Also, for the price you have your choice from quite a number of real RAID 5 NAS boxes which I do trust (like the infrant readynas series).

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