I saw the horror stories after I had ordered mine. Sure enough mine started to fail just before my warranty was up. I went through the troubleshooting steps on the site which seemed to work temporarily but it soon began disconnecting again. Which brings me to the absolute worst part about the Drobo. The customer service. I spent over a month troubleshooting the device with them when they finally said that for $129 the would replace it since it was not out of warranty. Even though the problems...
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Before I kick my own ass when this thing dies, I decided to make the jump and get a drobo for extra protection. I know USB 3.0 is in the pipeline for all hardware products, but does anyone have an insight when this will happen and when it will hit the drobo line? Trying to see if I should buy now, or just hold out if it's within the next few months possibly a year.
Just swapped a 1TB for a 2TB, and after 2 hours, it says 181 hours remaining. It might speed up as the last time I did that it took nearly 3 days to finish.
planning to replace the drives one at a time over the next couple of years with drives that have 5 year warranties and bigger caches so it will be faster.
Yes the Drobo family is a lovely piece of kit but how can Drobo justify the difference in features between the Drobo 2nd-gen and Drobo S? Currently the prices from the Drobo online store states that: Drobo 2nd-Gen - £265.91 Drobo S - £484.26 (Promo Price) The differences from what I have glanced at both spec sheets is the the Drobo S has an extra slot for another hard disk and eSATA connection. Logically if you run both units with the Firewire 800 option you'll get the same transfer rate??...
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What do you guys recommend as a good alternative to the Drobo if I want something a bit cheaper and with integrated networking? I really like the idea of flexible expansion as standard hard drives get cheaper and cheaper....
I own a 2nd gen Drobo. I have had it for 9 months or so and it has recently started freezing up - all the lights come on - the leds go solid red and I have to cycle the power to reboot it. Anyone else come across this? It's very very frustrating as I am rebooting at least once a day.
I have two 8 slot 2nd Gen Drobo's and use them for backup purposes. I have found both units to be similarly slow - far slower than a normal firewire external drive, be it 400 or 800. This is the case whether the Drobo is connected via firewire or via ethernet cable. It takes 2 or 3 times as long to back up to Drobo as compared to any other drive. Also booting of the drobo (when connected via firewire) is slow and the mac is unbearably slow. Perhaps I'm doing something wrong... - I'd...
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