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jaymeez (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Hello, I purchased a drobo & can't figure out how to put my itunes & iphoto in there. Can you make a video explaining how to do this on a mac? I don't want to use drobo as back up just external hard drive to free up my internal drive which is filling up very quickly. Thanks...
ajmernone (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Drobo was designed for macs.
PublicDomainContent (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Will Drobo work with Macs?
jaworskij (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
This is how RAID and LVM works ... You just add and delete drives as you need more capacity and as your drives fail.
But you really should supplement this with a backup tape device for longer term storage.
kevin15man (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
well better then nothing not every pc has firewire
manguz2000 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
well that only applies if you star out with an empty Drobo. I have one that has stuff in it and I can't change it to the new 16TB max(if im not mistaken) without re-formatting it.
y6w6 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Piece of crap, since it runs over USB 2 which is slow like hell.
djbis (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Cool
pvonk46 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
You'll have 3TB of usable space with 4 drives of 1 TB each. Here's an explanation from the drobo forum:
You have four drives. I'm going to write a different number to three drives, and then write the sum of those numbers to the fourth drive: Drive 1: 3 Drive 2: 6 Drive 3: 2 Drive 4: (3+6+2) = 11 Now, if I remove any one of those drives, I can figure out what was missing from it. (IE, if we remove drive 2, we take 11 - 2 - 3 = 6, so we know the missing drive was storing the number 6).
djbis (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Ahah!!! so there is a drawback!!! LOL
I guess the idea is to keep drives of similar sizes always, this minimizes the problem. But I guess for every gig that you have you will need another gig for redundancy, so if I stick 4 terabytes worth of drives in the unit I will only get 2 terabytes of real usable storage (+ the peace of mind I guess...)
The unit is still cool either way! Wonder if a unit with eSATA output connection will be developed soon?? |
