You also forgot to mention that it you get a free Eye-Fi card with it.
Get a Free Eye-Fi Card with This Drobo For a limited time, when you purchase this Drobo Storage Array and an Eye-Fi Explore card on the same order. Receive the Eye-Fi card free. Offer applies only to products that are sold by Amazon.com and excludes 3rd party or merchant offers.
Rebates2Riches
Senior Member - 1K
posted: Nov. 21, 2009 @ 11:44p
Hmmmm.... Both rebate forms want originals of everything. Who wants to call?
You need the Droboshare to make this a NAS. Too bad it wasn't built-in. Seems like a pain free RAID.
TypeEE
Senior Member
posted: Nov. 22, 2009 @ 10:51a
icantiwont said: You need the Droboshare to make this a NAS. Too bad it wasn't built-in. Seems like a pain free RAID.
It's also stupid to buy the droboshare, when you can buy the Acer Aspire Revo for $200 which does so much more than the droboshare. I wouldn't say it's a pain as there are very few options for dynamic RAID. Other raid configuration would require you to get matching harddrive when one failed. However, the drobo would allow you to replace the original drive with same or greater size.
I have the original version and it works as advertised, just put your drives in and forget about it. I don't have the droboshare but have it hooked up to an old pc and can access it from any pc on my network. It's not as fast, but I use it for backup only so it's not really an issue.
TypeEE
Senior Member
posted: Nov. 22, 2009 @ 3:43p
if your old pc is a full size desktop, it'll run you around 100W which would cost you about $15 in electricity per month.
It looks like if you get the Eye-Fi $100 rebate, you do not get the $30 rebate, so the price would be $349. Still. Sell the Eye-Fi on eBay for $70-75, and the price goes down to $275 or so, which is $60 less than the next cheapest place I found the Drobo for last week when I was searching for a deal.
Here's a 1.5TB Segate Drive for $98 FS @ Newegg. Link
therhino
Member
posted: Nov. 24, 2009 @ 11:03a
USB 2.0 and Firewire are too slow for something capable of holding 10TB+... You definitely need an eSATA interface or wait for USB 3.0.
I just had a drive fail in a RAID10 setup (Seagate 1.5TB known for problems...). I'm getting rid of this RAID10 and making a new one out of better drives... Just to be safe, I moved 2-2.5TB of HD video to another internal RAID, an external eSATA drive AND a USB 2.0 drive... The internal transfer from RAID to RAID took about 1 hour... The eSATA was done in about 2.5 hours... The USB took overnight... If I don't use a 3rd party copy application, I usually get a message from Windows, "Are you sure you want to copy directory X to directory X?" which means nothing got copied overnight from that point forward...
TypeEE
Senior Member
posted: Nov. 24, 2009 @ 1:26p
therhino said: USB 2.0 and Firewire are too slow for something capable of holding 10TB+... You definitely need an eSATA interface or wait for USB 3.0.
I just had a drive fail in a RAID10 setup (Seagate 1.5TB known for problems...). I'm getting rid of this RAID10 and making a new one out of better drives... Just to be safe, I moved 2-2.5TB of HD video to another internal RAID, an external eSATA drive AND a USB 2.0 drive... The internal transfer from RAID to RAID took about 1 hour... The eSATA was done in about 2.5 hours... The USB took overnight... If I don't use a 3rd party copy application, I usually get a message from Windows, "Are you sure you want to copy directory X to directory X?" which means nothing got copied overnight from that point forward...
I think this is really meant to be a backup drive more than a harddrive as fast as your internal harddrive.
People may want to check the status of their rebates. My $100 rebate was initially denied because they said I didn't provide a serial #, which was very prominently included on the rebate form.
I called complained, and after 3 weeks of still showing as denied as a status, it's showing "Received, Submission is being processed" now.
OK, they approved my rebate, and sent my check, but there seems to be a problem with the amount. They sent *more* than they should have. Anyone else receive there's and have this "problem"?
I would highly recommend a Windows Home Server instead. I simply can't believe they didn't build any networking into this. How much is that extra module? $120?
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