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What are people doing since drobo 1st gen is no longer supported?
not sure i want to replace my drobo with another drobo. Has been good upgradable storage solutions but has also had more than one scary moment wondering if i lost all my data.
I went for the drobo fs but thinking now is a waste of time and money
I lost 500gig being confused with the warranty period
I lost 500gig being confused with the warranty period
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First let me say I have almost 5 years of experience with the Drobo 1st gen: I bought it in late 2007.
Drobo released a final firmware for the 1st gen drobo (1.3.8) -- you can't upgrade to it via Drobo Dashboard's automatic function, you need to download it from their site and apply it manually. The 1st gen Drobo is limited to supporting 2TB drives (for a total storage capacity of 5.44TB, which is nothing to sneeze at).
My feeling is that if you don't need the features of the larger devices (e.g., you are using the Drobo as a NAS hooked up to an Airport Extreme that lacks Firewire), the 1st gen Drobo is still a good piece of hardware. There's no warranty on it now of course, but the actual hardware itself is pretty basic and should provide years of service if it's not DOA.
The older Drobos *do* have issues, though. The 1st gen's processor was rather underpowered, so operations like re-layouts can take a very long time. That can be nerve-wracking as your data is not protected during the process, but I've (knock on wood) never had a failure that cost me data. Thanks to the Drobo's thin provisioning model I've had the same filesystem on my Drobo since mid-2008 with no issues a reboot didn't fix.
Say what you will about Drobo's products, they truly are "set and forget" most of the time in my experience.
Drobo released a final firmware for the 1st gen drobo (1.3.8) -- you can't upgrade to it via Drobo Dashboard's automatic function, you need to download it from their site and apply it manually. The 1st gen Drobo is limited to supporting 2TB drives (for a total storage capacity of 5.44TB, which is nothing to sneeze at).
My feeling is that if you don't need the features of the larger devices (e.g., you are using the Drobo as a NAS hooked up to an Airport Extreme that lacks Firewire), the 1st gen Drobo is still a good piece of hardware. There's no warranty on it now of course, but the actual hardware itself is pretty basic and should provide years of service if it's not DOA.
The older Drobos *do* have issues, though. The 1st gen's processor was rather underpowered, so operations like re-layouts can take a very long time. That can be nerve-wracking as your data is not protected during the process, but I've (knock on wood) never had a failure that cost me data. Thanks to the Drobo's thin provisioning model I've had the same filesystem on my Drobo since mid-2008 with no issues a reboot didn't fix.
Say what you will about Drobo's products, they truly are "set and forget" most of the time in my experience.
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