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Drive Prices Increase – Who Will Suffer Most?

By On November 6, 2011 · 13 Comments · In Storage

Storagezilla calls out hard disk availability in his recent post.  In fact, I discussed the subject of drive prices last week with James Carter of Touchdown PR on my way to SNW Europe.  James highlighted he was seeing prices on standard drives having doubled recently.

I went back and looked [...]

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Data Robotics Releases Business-class Arrays

By On February 8, 2011 · 4 Comments · In Featured, Storage

Today Data Robotics (Drobo) are announcing a new range of storage devices specifically targeted at business customers.  However this is a market that already has many players; what are they offering and how will they fare in this already competitive market?

New Devices

First of all, let’s take a look at [...]

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How Many Drives? 47

By On January 24, 2011 · 2 Comments · In Storage

Rick Vanover asked the question; “how many hard drives are spinning in your home lab/home today?”.

My answer was 47, which quite surprised me.  It’s comprised of:

Drobo Devices; 5 + 4 + 3 = 12 iX4 Devices; 4 + 4 = 8 NS4600 Device; 3 Backup HDD (SafePro); 1 CLARiiON; 15 Home Lab PCs; [...]

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Choosing Between Monolithic and Modular Architectures – Part I

By On August 24, 2010 · 18 Comments · In Featured, Storage, Ulitzer

The recent proposed acquisition of 3Par by Dell and/or HP has made me think a little more about the direction the storage industry is taking in terms of their storage array design architecture.  Since storage arrays became a category of devices in their own right, we’ve seen the growth of the monolithic, sometimes [...]

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Hardware Review: Drobo Elite – Part I

By On June 2, 2010 · 9 Comments · In Featured, Reviews

This post is the first in a series covering the DroboElite SMB storage device from Data Robotics Inc.

The DroboElite is the most fully featured storage array in the Data Robotics range of devices.  Regular readers will know I’ve posted frequently on these devices, from the first

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Personal Computing: Can Drobo Dashboard Manage Multiple Drobos?

By On January 5, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Featured, GestaltIT, Storage

This is a problem that’s been on my mind for some time; can the Drobo Dashboard see more than one device at the same time?  Well, it turns out the answer is yes.

At first my thought was that it wasn’t possible for the Drobo Dashboard to manage more than one device.  Currently [...]

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Review: DroboPro – Part II

By On December 7, 2009 · 1 Comment · In Featured, GestaltIT, Reviews

This is the second in a series of posts looking at the DroboPro from Data Robotics Inc.  Previous post(s):

Review: DroboPro – Part I

Previously I discussed a few frustrations with connecting my new DroboPro to ESXi, the target environment for my new device.  I’ve now managed to get the [...]

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Personal Computing: Drobo Replacement

By On November 20, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Storage

Following on from my Personal Computing: Drobo Wierdness, I have received a replacement unit from Data Robotics.  I thought for a change I’d produce a video and so here is my attempt to swap out my drives into the new unit.  In the end I formatted the existing drives as four new NAS shares.  [...]

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Personal Computing: Drobo Weirdness

By On October 19, 2009 · 7 Comments · In Storage

Hmm, I’ve found a small bug with my Drobo which is making me slightly nervous.  Have a look at the first graphic.  I’ve exceeded a single 2TB logical drive in terms of capacity (as I now have two 2TB and two 1TB physical drives installed).  In this instance the Drobo has created me a second logical drive, which [...]

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Personal Computing: Drobo Jitters

By On September 14, 2009 · 5 Comments · In Storage

As regular readers will know, I’ve had a Drobo storage system for some time now.  I’ve not had a bad word to say about the product – it just works and does what I expect it to do.  However, there’s one function I think could do with some improvement and it’s the one [...]

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