What the heck is a Drobo?!

bohdank wrote in post #12125567
It's supposed to be backup. Loading a 25 meg raw file on either one into CS5 is hardly going to be noticeable.

And I am not talking what it is capable of such as burst speed. I was referring to sustained speeds.

The one thing that a Drobo offers that no other system does is single/double redundancy along with the ability to use drives of different sizes and change them on the fly. All of these things have a value to me, they may not, for you.

Other NAS solutions can have single or double disk redundancy and to use disks of different size.

I think the main difference is that most other solutions wants you to visit an admin web page in the unit and explicitly press a button when you replace disks - just to confirm that you really mean it.

tekkie wrote in post #12125631
first drobo doesn't market it as "backup"

yes it supposedly does have that redundancy but read around and you will see many people complaining about how it lost all of its data, it never lost all of mine but it did it 2 times where I couldn't access it for a day, so if they are going to claim it can do it at least make it work

if you think there is no difference in the load time of files on the drobo vs another disk your kidding yourself I moved mine from the drobo to 2 SATA drives and the pictures open at least 5 times faster now, lightroom is like a different application!

Note that using RAID instead of single disks doesn't add a backup copy.

A Drobo is either one (1) backup media. Or it is a "server" disk. The Drobo can't be backup for itself. No RAID is really a backup for itself - a file overwrite is a file overwrite however many disks that overwrite did get duplicated to.

So people could decide to stora all their files on multiple disks in their workstation computer. And then get two Drobo and consider each Drobo to be one backup target. Just that unless one Drobo is stored at a different location, that backup solution is still weak. And any Drobo that is online and allows write access to the backup files allows a virus to clear the Drobo at the same time as it clears the laptop/workstation disks.

Isn't el drobo the male with la droba being the female?