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Originally Posted by Jazzdogg
G'day MTAU.
I know there are similar threads online here so I won't waste time and I'll try to get right to the point.  I deal with a lot of video media (DV/HDV, Digibeta, REDCODE etc) and as of late I'm noticing that keeping all that data managed over multiple hard drives is not only difficult, but scary... knowing if one of the hard drive fails I'm really in trouble! |
I feel your pain!
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Originally Posted by Jazzdogg
I've heard both good and bad things about Drobo (gen 2) and I'm at a loss as to if I should consider using it as a secondary source of storing data or to look elsewhere. I'm really looking for a solution thats really a seamless path for upgrading as well as safe redundant storage. I know speeds aren't groundbreaking so I'd plan only to keep older files/backups on the Drobo whilst keeping my Icecube Gen 2 caddie in use for editing and compositing.
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The networking speed is a bit slow - ok the networking speed is a LOT slow - and its windows/smb networking... outside the networking issue its a terrific little device, the way it works is its got the raid stuff done for you so you have excelent backups in there... you can remove a drive and add a bigger one at any time which is constantly increasing the capacity...
the best way to look at the drobo is as a data dump destination, if you keep a regular eye on the lights on your drobo you can get GIGS into it without a problem, as i just mentioned the drobo is covered with lights that indicate the state of the drive externally...
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Originally Posted by Jazzdogg
Would people suggest using the Drobo in the scenario suggested above? Also, does anyone know if it's possible to setup a secondary petition on the Drobo for Time Machine use (as to limit it to a particular size and not use up all the HDD space...) or should I keep Time Machine separate as is now?
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you cant set up extra partitions on the drobo, it just does not work that way, i definatley think shouldnt use a drobo for backups with time machine, the drobo will chew a lot of space on all those tiny files esepcially as its space gets bigger, and we all know how many tiny files there are in a time machine backup... the time machine backup would in essence have another internal backup inside the drobo - i would say that the time machine backup is good the way it is
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Originally Posted by Jazzdogg
Any feedback or recommendations for other units would be greatly appreciated! Many thanks in advance  |
there are a lot of different RAID type devices about the place, basically you want a bunch of disks in a device for a lot of storage or do you want the redundancy that the drobo gives as well??