Articles tagged with 'drobo':
If you haven't followed the saga so far, you may not know that I've had a series of hard drive failures in my Drobo 5D, which all seem to come down to having chosen a Seagate Barracuda drive with a spectacularly terrible failure rate.
So, in early January, my Drobo started rebooting again. Everything is now resolved, and all in all I think the Drobo was not only not the problem, but ended up going a little above and beyond in helping keep my data safe.
So, my Drobo 5D, which I had troubles with this summer, surprised me last week by going into data protection mode and showing the third bay as empty, even though it wasn't.
I updated the firmware (automatic updates were off, for some reason) and Drobo...
read more ⇒I have a Drobo 5D (drobo.com, amazon.com). When my server started running out of space, I looked around at NAS (network-attached storage) and DAS (direct-attached storage) options, and eventually settled on the Drobo 5D. I wanted something that would be pretty fast, and while NAS units can be fairly fast, they're limited by the network. The Drobo 5D supported thunderbolt, and has a very simple, easy to understand expansion model.