I had a working drobo 1st gen device until osx lion was installed
so now I have 2x 1T drives with 500 gig on and no way to remove the data

I'm just curious what people have running in their Drobos. I maxed out a 4-bay because of the 2TB drive limitation still, so I had to upgrade to the FS... but it was well worth it. Currently running 4x3TB drives and... well, see for yourself. http://i.imgur.com/56fgD.jpg

Wondering if anyone else has had issues with their Drobo FS and various incarnations of Mac OS X. Drobo FS is running the most recent firmware. So far I have observed the following issues on both Snow Leopard and Lion: Initially, it will take a long time to connect via AFP (sometimes as long as 2 minutes before you finally get a list of shares), but once it connects, it is reasonably fast. The second issue is that it occasionally seems to just completely disappear from Finder entirely. It it... Read more →

Does anyone have experience in using a drobo with the new Windows Home Server?

Are the power bricks still emitting the high pitched noise? Also I'm currently using a Synology DS207+ 2 drive nas and it's fairly noisy. What's the noise level for putting the drive near the computer or would it get annoying?

I can see on the PS3's XMB that there is a media server running but do not manage to see any of the files in the directories I added... :-(

especially since i would like to access our photos, videos, music, and movies on both my wife's desktop and my laptop and will likely be replacing the media PC that was connected to my plasma until it died recently. What's the easiest (set up and use) product out there that will give me the biggest bang for my buck. Thanks.