Storage

Jan
16

Drobo Still Takes Forever to Rebuild?

Vermyndax on January 16th, 2011

I’m guessing from the amount of hits on the Drobo article from 2009 that people are still having problems with Drobos rebuilding the array in a decent amount of time. Ever since I got a DS4600 using standard RAID-5 I’ve been quite happy. Rebuild times on a 6TB volume are about 2.5 hours. Note: the [...]

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Oct
30

Drobo Rebuild Time and Your Sanity

Vermyndax on October 30th, 2009

I am one of the aspiring new media yahoos that bought into the fever gripping folks everywhere – the Drobo (a play on words for “data robotics.”)  Leo Laporte, Scott Bourne and all of those folks loudly proclaimed about what a fantastic device the Drobo is. I’m here to tell you it sucks. Now, first [...]

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Computers, Things I Hate 3 Comments »