What they didn’t do so well was customer service, promotion, and getting the word out. In the early years of Drobo’s existence they were run by a team of very smart tech people who had amazing talents for building a better mouse trap, so to speak. What’s equally interesting to me is WHO they are.
So I’ve described a bit about what Drobo physically is.
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With the new firmware update for the 5D’s, I can now handle as much as 64TB of data. Before the newest Droboįirmware update, my 2-3 year old Drobo 5D’s would only handle 16TB of data and I needed at last 20TB. That’s not easy when you have a library of almost one million images. One of Mylio’s requirements for its blazing speed is to put all photos being managed by Mylio on one hard drive.
The reason I had to go through all of the above, learning about expensive RAID devices, was due to my migration from Apple’s Aperture to Mylio. Drobo let me do it with a minimum of three drives to start, then add the drives as I need more. Not only did I not need them, but I would have also been paying for the drives at today’s prices, which in a year will be much cheaper, all for space that wasn’t necessary. For the one I was considering, that meant I was buying 3-4 hard drives I didn’t yet want. Pegasus required that I buy the box with all the drives installed up front. I actually thought about moving to Pegasus but I had no desire to spend almost $6000 to move away from my Drobos. An example of this is a very well known, high quality RAID device called the Promise Pegasus. I bought a Synology device, a competitor to Drobo and was so turned off by the prehistoric looking, Windowsesque, Explorer like interface, I sent it back the next day.įor me, Beyond RAID is a must have feature for those of us who don’t want to spend money on hard drive space we might not yet need. It may sound strange to be so thrilled with the design of the Drobo Dashboard, but if you’ve seen the competition, you’ll understand why Drobo takes the lead in simplicity and elegance.
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That is beautiful beyond belief.Īnd speaking of pure Drobo beauty, no other device comes close to the gorgeous Drobo Dashboard which is the software you get to keep track of your Drobo devices. I can pretty much just select a drive and plug it in. They keep it simple by not requiring I know exactly what speed the drive is, what size it is, what brand, etc. But Drobo Beyond RAID does it different by way of giving me the ability to mix and match virtually any drive I have available. There’s lots of regular RAID devices on the market. QA Software Engineer, Albert Langarica, hard at work coding the great Drobo software.
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