Author Topic: Drobo anyone? (Read 1756 times)

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?

Brummell · « **Reply #1 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.

phillip · « **Reply #2 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

dracaXL · « **Reply #3 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.

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Author Topic: Drobo anyone? (Read 1756 times)