Comments on: Adventures with Drobo http://zirkel.com/blog/2007/11/30/adventures-with-drobo/ “Believe nothing. Try to understand everything.” Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:23:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Justin Lloyd http://zirkel.com/blog/2007/11/30/adventures-with-drobo/comment-page-1/#comment-21755 Justin Lloyd Sun, 09 Dec 2007 06:47:14 +0000 http://zirkel.com/blog/2007/11/30/adventures-with-drobo/#comment-21755 Actually I have a 4 drive, 4 TB Drobo and it has had a number of issues, but the most serious one for me is when moving the Drobo, the bottom drive has a tendency to disappear from the array. I usually have to take it out and re-insert it a few times and then Drobo goes about rebuilding the array. Which is kind of scary. I am not sure if it is the drive connectors in the Drobo being poorly manufactured or the rails that hold the drive in place. These Drobo units are first generation and whilst Data Robotics have done a good job at making it "bullet proof" it just isn't ready for prime time. Fortunately all of the data on the Drobo is backed up on a separate (older) RAID 5 array until Drobo has proved itself to be capable of safely handling my data (2.6TB of data is a lot to lose!) Actually I have a 4 drive, 4 TB Drobo and it has had a number of issues, but the most serious one for me is when moving the Drobo, the bottom drive has a tendency to disappear from the array. I usually have to take it out and re-insert it a few times and then Drobo goes about rebuilding the array. Which is kind of scary. I am not sure if it is the drive connectors in the Drobo being poorly manufactured or the rails that hold the drive in place. These Drobo units are first generation and whilst Data Robotics have done a good job at making it “bullet proof” it just isn’t ready for prime time. Fortunately all of the data on the Drobo is backed up on a separate (older) RAID 5 array until Drobo has proved itself to be capable of safely handling my data (2.6TB of data is a lot to lose!)

]]> By: Ken Zirkel http://zirkel.com/blog/2007/11/30/adventures-with-drobo/comment-page-1/#comment-21754 Ken Zirkel Mon, 03 Dec 2007 11:46:43 +0000 http://zirkel.com/blog/2007/11/30/adventures-with-drobo/#comment-21754 The more I learn about this, the more it looks like I was not a complete idiot, which is comforting. My Drobo and all hard drives are now working fine, so all's well that ends well, I guess. The more I learn about this, the more it looks like I was not a complete idiot, which is comforting.

My Drobo and all hard drives are now working fine, so all’s well that ends well, I guess.

]]> By: Basil Crow http://zirkel.com/blog/2007/11/30/adventures-with-drobo/comment-page-1/#comment-21753 Basil Crow Mon, 03 Dec 2007 02:50:19 +0000 http://zirkel.com/blog/2007/11/30/adventures-with-drobo/#comment-21753 It shouldn't matter if the physical hard disk itself is on its side or not, but then again, all it takes is one neutrino... It shouldn’t matter if the physical hard disk itself is on its side or not, but then again, all it takes is one neutrino…

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