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Data Robotics Releases Drobo S and Drobo Elite...
Richard Favinger Jr, Photographer
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Martin McNeil, Photographer
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East Kilbride | Lanarkshire | United Kingdom | Posted: 9:35 AM on 11.23.09 |
->> Seems that Drobo-S is the unit I've been waiting for; as good as FireWire and USB are for simple back-up, they don't pass muster for near-line archiving which is what I need.
I'll await a review before I shell out the £530 asking price for the bare unit, though ;) |
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Richard Favinger Jr, Photographer
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Pottstown | PA | USA | Posted: 9:43 AM on 11.23.09 |
| ->> Again, I think they fell short with the Drobo Elite... Gave it 2 iSCSI ports, but still no strait up Gigabit either net access to share... And no sATA on the Drobo Elite, just FW800 and 2x iSCSI... |
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Matthew Sauk, Photographer
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Sandy | UT | United States | Posted: 9:51 AM on 11.23.09 |
| ->> damn that is expensive! geez |
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Eric Canha, Photographer
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Brockton | MA | United States | Posted: 9:55 AM on 11.23.09 |
| ->> Richard I'm with you, eSATA on the Elite would have been a FAR better choice over the dual iSCSI ports. I have the Drobo pro run iSCSI. Not impressed with iSCSI on a Vista platform. Maybe it will be better on Win7. |
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Richard Favinger Jr, Photographer
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Pottstown | PA | USA | Posted: 5:19 PM on 11.23.09 |
->> I'd simply like to be able to plug the Drobo Pro / Elite into my Gigabit Ethernet on my AirPort and share it over the network for my laptop and desktop for massive storage... And they fell short.
Still Drobo is a great solution for massive storage cheep; but the simple things they forget! |
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Matt Cashore, Photographer
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South Bend | IN | USA | Posted: 11:35 AM on 11.27.09 |
->> Yeah...the simple things they forget...like an On/Off switch!!!
I know I have only myself to blame for not researching Drobo more thoroughly, but I just bought the Drobo 2.0 and I immediately regretted it. I had no idea the ONLY way to bring it out of standby mode is to unplug & re-plug the firewire cable.
Huh?
That's like a light bulb that can only be turned on & off by screwing it into the socket. It simply never entered my brain to research "Can this thing be turned on & off?"
I have been in contact with Drobo support and supposedly the Drobo-S has an on/off switch so I am attempting to do a return/exchange. |
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Monty Rand, Photographer
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Bangor | ME | USA | Posted: 6:43 AM on 11.28.09 |
->> Here's a question for some of you folks who use the Drobo. Using my friends employee discount at Best Buy, I picked up 10 1.5TB Hard drives to use in the Drobo I just bought. I was excited to get it....however, it's not doing what I thought it was doing. Maybe it's doing exactly what it's supposed to, but this is not what I want unless I'm doing something wrong. I put in a brand new drive. I formatted the drive. I then put in a drive where I wanted to copy all of its data to the brand new drive. Nope. It erased the drive that had date on it (its backed up) and now both drives have the same data on them!!!! So, definately not what I want to do :)
So, my question is this.....I want to be able to take the SATA drives I have and back them up onto other bigger drives. I thought the Drobo would just allow me to put in 4 drives and start backing up my data. Apparently not. I used the Dashboard software, but I couldn't find anything that would allow me to do this. Maybe I can't? So,if the Drobo isn't my answer, what am I looking for? The system I currently use isn't trayless and I'm tired of spending money on trays every time I want to add a new drive. |
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Daniel Putz, Photographer
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Owings Mills | MD | USA | Posted: 8:47 AM on 11.28.09 |
| ->> Any drives you put into it, become formatted into its array. If you want to copy anything onto it, the drive must be attached separately and transferred. |
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Eric Canha, Photographer
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Brockton | MA | United States | Posted: 12:21 PM on 11.28.09 |
| ->> Daniel is right. When the Drobo senses a new drive it formats it as part of the array. What you are looking for is a JOBD enclosure. Personally I think that one of the slots on the drobo pro should be able to break free from the RAID and be addressed as a standalone slot for the purpose of populating the array without having to move the data across an iSCSI or FW or USB buss. Unfortunately there is no way of doing this currently. |
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Monty Rand, Photographer
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Bangor | ME | USA | Posted: 2:17 PM on 11.28.09 |
->> I think I solved my issue and saved myself some coin. I sent the Drobo packing and got a BlacX Duet:
http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/Product.aspx?C=1346&ID=1895
Using this, I can just back-up my old drives onto the new bigger drives which is my overall goal. Cost was about $40 using my friends discount at Best Buy. Normal price is about $65. |
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Eric Canha, Photographer
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Brockton | MA | United States | Posted: 4:01 PM on 11.28.09 |
->> Monty I have the single drive version of that.... I've had one drive bake in it already. It may work for quick moves but if you are going to dock 2 drives in it without some kind of active cooling you're in store for trouble. At least based on what I have experienced.
I use (use to past tense) mine to move large folders from the event drive to my server in the office. We're talking about 100gig or so. I've had one drive overheat and reset/cycle on-off and a second one just bake itself dead. I no longer run a drive in my dock for more than 15 minutes and if I am running a drive for longer periods I put a desktop fan on the drives. I have a hard time believing that two drives that close to each other can rely on convection cooling for any real length of time.
Maybe someone here will have had better luck and can tell us that my experience was an anomaly. |
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Dave Einsel, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Houston | TX | United States | Posted: 4:26 PM on 11.28.09 |
->> There are a number of solid solutions out there. Whether camera bags, custom function settings or boxers vs briefs, everyone has there own way of doing things.
I have had great results with this:
http://www.firmtek.com/seritek/seritek-5pm/ |
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Monty Rand, Photographer
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Bangor | ME | USA | Posted: 8:08 AM on 11.29.09 |
->> The Firmtek device looks great, but I'm using a 24inch (soon to be 27inch iMac) and I don't have any sata or esata ports.
I wish the new 27inch iMacs had a sata port.
I don't plan on using the BlacX Duet very hard. Once I shoot a new job and it goes on my removable drives. I'll just drop a drive in this and offload the photos to the drive and then remove the drive. Not the best solution but cheap and easy until I can research the issue a little more. |
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Harrison Shull, Photographer
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Fayetteville, WV | Asheville, NC | | Posted: 8:29 AM on 11.29.09 |
| ->> I had the single BlacX docking station that Eric refers to. It worked great for awhile but then just up and died. The customer support at BlacX was HORRIBLE. I just gave up trying to remedy the situation and moved on. |
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