Does as advertised | Drobo Fully Automated SATA Robotic Storage Array 4 Bay USB 2.0

electronics: Drobo Fully Automated SATA Robotic Storage Array 4 Bay USB 2.0

electronics:


	• Drobo Fully Automated SATA Robotic Storage Array 4 Bay USB 2.0 Data Robotics Data Robotics average customer review:based on 46 reviews view larger image
	for more information click here

It does what it says on the product description, but ...

I've had my Drobo for about a month now, and the product does work as described. It is as easy to use as shown on the videos on the product website and here at Amazon. It does work with any size drives you may have, and you can grow how much capacity it holds by just replacing your smallest drive with another of a bigger capacity. It simply works.

But they left out that it can be slower than other external drives you may have had in the past. It is slower than most other external drives when you're just copying files to and from it.

When you replace a broken drive for another, or when you add capacity to the unit, the Drobo will let you access your data while it prepares your new drive in the background, but this slows down the unit even more.

I don't recommend the Drobo to the impatient nor to people working in AV production. It is great as a backup drive, because you can grow its capacity easily and relatively inexpensively. In fact, as disk drives grow in size and drop in price month after month, the relative cost of growing its capacity will just get better.

Because of its ease of use and because it actually does work as expected, I give it my recommendation and 4 stars. I just wish it had a bit more pep to it.

for more information click here

Does as advertised

Using this for video backup only. 2.7 TB of usable space (4 Western Digital 1TB drives). Have not had a problem in 2 months of heavy use. Easy to use and upgrade (started with 2 TB and then added 2 more drives later). There is one weird thing it does though and that is whenever I turn on my Mac and the Drobo, I get the "unrecognized disc" message with the dialog box to "initialize or cancel" choices. Of course I always click cancel and it comes up normally, but damn that is a scary dialog to come up every time. What if someone else hits "initialize or I do it by accident? I hope it at least asks "do you want to erase all your data?", but I've been too scared to even go that far. Other than that, no complaints.

for more information click here

As rich media (photos, video, movies, music) continues to devour your storage capacity, you need a solution that allows you to easily manage, protect, and scale storage for your PC or Mac. Drobo is the first fully automated storage robot to take the pain out of keeping your important digital content safe.Avoid the hassles associated with managing multiple external hard drives or managing the complexities of RAID. Attach Drobo to your Mac or PC and let it manage your storage so you don't have to.