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It sounds like what you are looking for is a Drobo (www.drobo.com). It has some shortcomings, but it is great for dead-simple backups that protect against hard
by notmyname 17y ago
It sounds like what you are looking for is a Drobo (www.drobo.com). It has some shortcomings, but it is great for dead-simple backups that protect against hard drive failure.
- rjurney 17y agoThanks, that is very interesting. Not ZFS apparently, but that is the product I described.
- joshu 17y agoI am excited about drobo but I've heard too many horror stories.
- weaksauce 17y agoWhat kind of horror stories? I am looking for something like this instead of tape backups. I looked at some NAS devices that hold five drives and seem pretty robust. One of the devices can mirror itself to another NAS over the network so you can have two separate places to store your data and not have a hardware failure of one device kill the other.(one exception would be the case where the master device gets degraded to the point where bad data is being written to it and then propagates the changes to the other device. I don't know how likely this failure situation is though.)
- joshu 17y agoI've just heard whispers of data loss bugs more than a few times. I recommend some searching. I think the dual NAS idea is a good one; I'm considering it. I do crave a higher bandwidth connection to disk. I wish OS X would ship with ZFS. A mac mini + zfs + JBOD seems fascinating.