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New Safe Way to Expand Storage
Just came across this article:
Drobo: Your Own Personal Data Robot Talks about a new piece of hardware that can add storage space with data redundancy via USB to your PC. Doesn't use RAID, but its "own disk and storage virtualization algorithms".
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there is a cool video on drobo's site (www.drobo.com) that shows it in action
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Somehow, "USB" and "redundancy" don't seem to go together.
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Seems to have the same redundancy overhead as RAID5, but doesn't use RAID? Pretty weird.
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It looks like it is using a block level backup function to backup the data. Its difficult to figure out what it uses though.
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No ethernet connection and only version 1. I will wait till version 2, but it does look interesting.
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Intel Core Duo 2.5mhz, 2gb RAM Windows Home Server, Sage 7 beta 2 Hauppauge PVR-250, 1 PVR-500 MCE 1 HDHomeRun 4TB Storage, GB Network 2 MVPs, 1 HD100 & 1 HD300 Last edited by lotusvball; 06-06-2007 at 02:29 PM. |
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Agreed. They need to add GigE to sell me.
And I still don't know what to do with all my old PATA drives.... ![]() |
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Looks like basically an unRAID but without the PC. Wonder what happens to this thing if the PC dies. Looks like it doesn't have much of anything for brains in it.
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822329023 |
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A possible danger: Drobo will report 2GB usable space to Windows (and Sage) regardless of how little is actually on line. Sage will blissfully save shows to this volume until *crash* you run out of "real" space. That's how they support adding disk capacity transparently.
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Its an interesting concept, but plagued with problems as stated with the odd decision to make it look like it has 2 TB of space but really only the true capacity of your hard drives.
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I disagree with the idea that getting a NAS with RAID would be better. This seems like a great solution for a SageTV setup. While the lingo on their site is a little extreme the idea of being able to replace a small drive with a larger drive one at a time and not having to replace the entire set is great. Not having to find a place big enough to hold your recordings while you rebuild the array seems pretty sweet too. finally, I do agree that network connectivity would be great, but I wouldn't use it. With 2 HD Homeruns and up to 3 clients going at the same time my network is under enough stress.
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I mean I've got a 8x250 RAID-5 array (on a not so modern controller), sure it would be nice to have an 8x500, or 8x750GB array, but when I look at swapping out the drives, I come to the inescapable conclusion, that I'd be "losing" 1.75TB of space doing that. Seems better to just build a new array, or add a new NAS. |
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Thats a good point. Un-RAID can do everything Drobo can as far as I can tell other than of course the difference in how they interface with your setup (USB compared to Ethernet). It does seem pretty convenient to have it come in a little box for $500 rather than buying a server case so you can hot-swap drives. I would also imagine power consumption to be lower on the Drobo can't back that up though.
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Well, I add them to my various desktops or put them in the computers I build for family and friends. In the future I'm thinking it would be cool to add them to a software RAID 5 array as part of cheap SageTV server for a wedding gift. Adding more and more server sized and power consuming computers to just sit in my basement is not appealing to me. One server that does everything - easy to administer and easy to hide. |
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You could donate them to your local school district or community college. I'm sure they could find a use for them.
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Ha. Yeah, hadn't thought of that. Perhaps it's not the perfect wedding gift ... maybe I would need to give it to a couple that isn't technical so that they just use it and don't 'futz with it'.
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