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Data Robotics’ Drobo: BeyondRAID Storage Technology
Apr 15^th, 2009 at 11:48am

Readers of this forum may be interested in Drobo Storage Products:

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Drobo is a product that protects against drive failure like RAID does without the headaches of traditional RAID arrays. Key features:

Use drives of any capacity. Drobo will figure out how it can safely store and provide that.

Add new drives as needed. As a corollary you can add or replace drives with new, larger drives to increase capacity or to replace flaky old drives. …

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The human error rate on traditional RAID arrays is shockingly high with estimates ranging from 3% to 10%. And that’s with pro admins.

Civilians don’t have a chance with standard arrays.

Source: Better than RAID: the new DroboPro

Take a look at the (impressive) demonstration video to learn more. It’s an intriguing technology.

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	Re: Data Robotics’ Drobo: BeyondRAID Storage Technology Reply #1 - Apr 20^th, 2009 at 10:12am Pleonasm wrote on Apr 15^th, 2009 at 11:48am: The human error rate on traditional RAID arrays what does this refer to?
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Re: Data Robotics’ Drobo: BeyondRAID Storage Technology
Reply #2 - Apr 22^nd, 2009 at 6:17pm

Pleonasm wrote on Apr 15^th, 2009 at 11:48am:

Civilians don’t have a chance with standard arrays.

Ya, I'm not sure a 'civilian' (which seems to be a round-about way of saying someone who isn't good with computers) would even know what RAID is or why they would want it. I've never found RAID that difficult to set up. I'd say anyone with the capacity to understand what it is can learn to set it up.

Their statistic of "3% - 10%" human error is not only non-specific about the type of error they are referencing and the effect of that error on the data, but they don't provide any reference for their random sounding numbers. Besides, most "pro" storage administrators would actually be working on a SAN, rather than manually configuring RAID.

Doesn't make it a bad product, necessarily, but I do think their marketing is questionable.

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