Drobo Alternatives
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- graphiknature
I was wondering if anyone knew of any external hard drive alternatives to the Drobo. I'm looking for a 1TB raid so that everything will be backed up twice in case one drive fails. I've seen a few externals out there but i was wondering if anyone has anything besides it. I'm looking for one that is a reasonable price and reliable with fire wire 800.
- uan0
maybe you should look for a server like the QNAP TS-209 Pro Turbo Station and backup over lan,
( or, just forget the paranoia and live with data getting lost. )
- xcreonx0
Lacie makes the Big drive setups. I think they are up to 4tb now. I have the 1tb RAID with two 500gb drives inside. It is setup to mirror in case one of them bite it. It is FW800, which I use, as well as 400 and USB2. The drives are easily swappable so you can upgrade very easily in the future. Check them out.
- Ambushstudio0
La Cie definitely
- 5timuli0
Ah like lassies tae.
- kgvs720
whatever it is make sure it has esata.
- akrokdesign0
mini stack. v3.
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/m…- yeeesPeter
- I'm looking for something that can do raid 1 (mirror) so it is backed up twice. I already had my current external have an error and lost all my stuff.graphiknature
- akrokdesign0
- yeeeeesPeter
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We've got two of these; one for backup, one for for active projects.pylon - Nice. I wonder if the drives are easily swapable in caseof a failure. I'll read more. OWC rocks though. I always order stuff from them.graphiknature
- kgvs720
Not exactly what you're looking for, but it's worth looking
- kgvs720
This is more like it. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Sh…
- formed0
Check out the Iomega versions. Pretty good deal. I've got a 3tb version setup in RAID 5.
- raf0
Raid doesn't protect from fire and theft. Just saying..
- true. But if you have a hot swap in raid 1, you can have everything mirrored on one drive, remove it and store it off location. So you would have a total of 3 HD.graphiknature
- webbernet0
check out ZFS powered alternatives. completely free and stable.
http://frankleng.me/2010/05/01/z…
- monNom0
FYI: Drobo shoulda been called SLOW-BO.
It's only really workable as a single workstation backup. Their network attached thingy sucks for a workgroup.
- epigraph0
they say raid is not true redundant backup, because if the file gets corrupted while being written to one drive, it'll be corrupt on the other drive too.
- raf0
- fetus0
WD MyBook Mirror 2TB (1TB mirrored). I got mine for $200.