http://www.drobo.com/

 

you can't go very wrong with this baby :)

 

just chuck in any old drive and it works everything out.

its not cheap though :( £375 without any drives :shock:

I'm using 2 RAID 10 arrays at the moment suits my needs fine

its not cheap though :( £375 without any drives :shock:

 

That's VERY cheap!

It does a bit more than a USB drive from PC World :rofl:

That's VERY cheap!

It does a bit more than a USB drive from PC World :rofl:

 

 

think i will stick with my server. lol. im running all scsi drives. main ones 15k, secondary ones 10k. they are fast enough for anyone.

I have a hard drive in my PC.... says the little man looking up at the giants !!!.

think i will stick with my server. lol. im running all scsi drives. main ones 15k, secondary ones 10k. they are fast enough for anyone.

 

thats not the point though :) its cheap upgradeable mass storage, with fault tolerance thrown in,

 

If we want to go balls deep, my play thing (ie work) is a 64 10k fibrechannel array with about 6tb of storage in one pool and 6tb in a 16 sata disk tray, 6 volumes in raid 5 with 4 hot spares,

 

can pump out close to 12,000ops a second currently with expansion room for upto 512TB of disk space and 200,000 ops, plus it replicates out to paris in async mode :)

thats all well and good mike if you are hosting :D. i thought we were talking home equipment here ;):rofl: i would say £375 + having to buy drives for it is not a cheap option for storage. so there:tongue:

thats all well and good mike if you are hosting :D. i thought we were talking home equipment here ;):rofl: i would say £375 + having to buy drives for it is not a cheap option for storage. so there:tongue:

 

a 73gb 15k scsi drive will cost you over 200quid :) i'd say thats expensive when sata2 seek and transfer times are pretty close to it :)

 

and ~£800 for 3tb of storage with redundancy is pretty cheap :)

thats not the point though :) its cheap upgradeable mass storage, with fault tolerance thrown in,

 

If we want to go balls deep, my play thing (ie work) is a 64 10k fibrechannel array with about 6tb of storage in one pool and 6tb in a 16 sata disk tray, 6 volumes in raid 5 with 4 hot spares,

 

can pump out close to 12,000ops a second currently with expansion room for upto 512TB of disk space and 200,000 ops, plus it replicates out to paris in async mode :)

 

I've got a usb flashdrive that'll hold more than that :rofl: wtf is ops?

a 73gb 15k scsi drive will cost you over 200quid :) i'd say thats expensive when sata2 seek and transfer times are pretty close to it :)

 

and ~£800 for 3tb of storage with redundancy is pretty cheap :)

 

 

yeah, i have to agree, the scsi drives are quite expensive. lmao. but not when you have a mate that works for a well known brand :D. i only paid £150 for my server which has 16 hot swaps in, i also got 5 brand new 146gb 15k drives thrown in & another 4 drives which i am using in my pc ;) its having freinds in the right places.

I've got 6x 250Gb drives in raid 5, not got any spares for it though :confused:

 

Does that drobo have NAS support or just USB?

I've got 6x 250Gb drives in raid 5, not got any spares for it though :confused:

 

Does that drobo have NAS support or just USB?

 

has a nas plugin, personally I am waiting for iscsi support then I am buying one :)