Comments on: Personal Computing: Drobo Jitters http://thestoragearchitect.com/2009/09/14/personal-computing-drobo-jitters/ Storage, Virtualisation & Cloud Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:47:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Stephen Foskett http://thestoragearchitect.com/2009/09/14/personal-computing-drobo-jitters/#comment-959 Stephen Foskett Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:20:36 +0000 http://thestoragearchitect.com/?p=728#comment-959 The DroboPro does support 2-drive parity (something like RAID-6), which is a must for an 8-drive device like it. 2-drive parity on a 4-drive device probably would not be used by many folks. As for the eject issue, the product marketing manager has taken the suggestion and will put it to the engineers. Watch for this feature in the future! The DroboPro does support 2-drive parity (something like RAID-6), which is a must for an 8-drive device like it. 2-drive parity on a 4-drive device probably would not be used by many folks.

As for the eject issue, the product marketing manager has taken the suggestion and will put it to the engineers. Watch for this feature in the future!

]]> By: Chris Evans http://thestoragearchitect.com/2009/09/14/personal-computing-drobo-jitters/#comment-963 Chris Evans Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:56:03 +0000 http://thestoragearchitect.com/?p=728#comment-963 True, drives are cheap. Perhaps though we need a new way to access data on the drives in parallel - or some other way of removing the need for serial access - I know how about SSDs.... :-) True, drives are cheap. Perhaps though we need a new way to access data on the drives in parallel – or some other way of removing the need for serial access – I know how about SSDs…. :-)

]]> By: Chris Evans http://thestoragearchitect.com/2009/09/14/personal-computing-drobo-jitters/#comment-962 Chris Evans Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:55:03 +0000 http://thestoragearchitect.com/?p=728#comment-962 I'd quite like DroboPro to evaluate next - not too keen on paying for it though! I’d quite like DroboPro to evaluate next – not too keen on paying for it though!

]]> By: Ron Major http://thestoragearchitect.com/2009/09/14/personal-computing-drobo-jitters/#comment-961 Ron Major Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:42:51 +0000 http://thestoragearchitect.com/?p=728#comment-961 Drives are cheap. Perhaps a three way mirror or RAID5 2+1+spare or RAID6 2+2. This is not just a Drobo issue. With the increasing size of harddrives, rebuild times are becoming too long and the danger of another failure - physical or data corruption - is too great. I recently read an article about how HDDs fail and I'm amazed the things work as well as they do. If it was not for their long track record, I would not sleep well. Drives are cheap. Perhaps a three way mirror or RAID5 2+1+spare or RAID6 2+2. This is not just a Drobo issue. With the increasing size of harddrives, rebuild times are becoming too long and the danger of another failure – physical or data corruption – is too great. I recently read an article about how HDDs fail and I’m amazed the things work as well as they do. If it was not for their long track record, I would not sleep well.

]]> By: Stephen Foskett http://thestoragearchitect.com/2009/09/14/personal-computing-drobo-jitters/#comment-960 Stephen Foskett Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:58:17 +0000 http://thestoragearchitect.com/?p=728#comment-960 I've been meaning to post exactly the same thing! It's nuts that the official/approved method of removing a drive is "pop it out". This from the same folks who have a suspend button on the array... I'll be talking to their VP of Marketing tomorrow and will make this suggestion! I’ve been meaning to post exactly the same thing! It’s nuts that the official/approved method of removing a drive is “pop it out”. This from the same folks who have a suspend button on the array…

I’ll be talking to their VP of Marketing tomorrow and will make this suggestion!

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