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Title: Drobo anyone?
Post by: ashort on Sun, 24 April 2011, 12:48:46

Anyone  use Drobo?  I'm considering a lighter, greener, quieter solution to FreeNAS  (not that I don't love FreeNAS, I DO!).  Wondering if it uses it's own  proprietary file system or if it is a file system I could mount in a  linux box because, what if the Drobo fails on me?


Would I have any  options other than buying another drobo?

Title: Drobo anyone?
Post by: Brummell on Sun, 24 April 2011, 18:24:21

Have you looked at Synology?  I'm pretty sure they're ext3, and they're really sweet on a bunch of other levels.  I have one mounted as an iSCSI target and dump VMWare backups to it from Veeam.

Title: Drobo anyone?
Post by: phillip on Sun, 24 April 2011, 23:13:58

it does use its own system

i'd build/buy a windows home server box or look at using amahi home server or unraid

Title: Drobo anyone?
Post by: dracaXL on Mon, 25 April 2011, 14:49:21

Ars Technica did a great and thorough review of the Drobo (although the comments are perhaps more revealing than the article!) - having read it, I'd go for the Synology unit myself.