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I'd echo this experience; I have a drobo fs with the new wd caviar greens. It works like a treat and is very quiet. I'm next looking into a tape backup solution
by imajes 16y ago
I'd echo this experience; I have a drobo fs with the new wd caviar greens. It works like a treat and is very quiet. I'm next looking into a tape backup solution for longer term storage, but for now- the drobo is an excellent way to work with.
Tip: don't buy the old drobo, get the new one. Don't get the drobo share, use an airport extreme or similar disk-sharing network device.
- napierzaza 16y agoSo buy two things? The fact is that you can find something with a gigabit ethernet port built into the unit. Not a tricky dongle that doesn't offer the real thing, not a sketchy router-based SMB share. It's a bad idea to have two devices when you can have one. Especially if you can get a one-device solution that will transfer files faster over your network.
- imajes 16y agoActually, i disagree it's a bad idea to have two devices; I trust that the apple extreme will work fantastically to share a disk for me; they get the OS and the fs, so it's pretty straightforward. A one device solution? Well, that'd be a router, switch, hard disk... (can you say, computer?) sometimes we want stuff that's single purpose, done well, easy on the power/heat/etc. I now have an appletv on a turn-off power strip, enabling me to 'turn on' the tv system and have something running easily, rather than having to get my laptop out, an external disk, try and make it all work. Ugh. madness.
- jwr 16y agoYes, I think your setup might work much better. The DroboFS is supposedly an improved version. And the DroboShare simply isn't a reliable device at all. Still, after seeing the corruption and after trying their support, I don't think I'll want to buy any more Drobo products ever again.