[DM-MUG] External Harddrives

[kristau]

I've seen a lot of buzz about the brand new Drobo "data robot" drive
enclosure.  You might want to wait until it has been out for awhile to
make sure it has been properly "field tested," but it looks pretty
neat.

www.drobo.com

Basically, it is a USB 2 drive enclosure with space for four 3.5" SATA
drives.  The cool part is that they've built in logic that utilizes
any combination of drive sizes and still provides protection against
drive failure similar to a RAID array.  It dynamically changes its
configuration as you add or remove storage, so you can expand it by
adding larger and larger drives, one at a time.  With traditional RAID
setups, you have to replace all the drives together.

It sounds like they have plans for FireWire and network attached
versions in the future, too.

On 6/20/07, Victoria L. Herring <vlh at herringlaw.com> wrote:
>
>
> I'm thinking of getting a humongous external harddrive and one that I've
> found is by Iomega = 1T
>
>
>
>  Buy.com offers the Iomega StorCenter 1TB Wireless External Hard Drive,
> model no. 33349, for $529.95 before a $35 mail-in rebate, $494.95 after.
> With free shipping, that's $5 off our last mention and the lowest total
> price we've seen. This network attached storage drive features built-in
> 802.11g wireless with WEP and WPA encryption, RAID 0, 0+1, and 5, and both
> Gigabit Ethernet and USB 2.0 connectivity.
>
>
> There are others not so large but they need FW or USB and I'm pretty maxed
> out on those.
>
>
> Any suggestions?  I can also get a 500G tray for my WiebeTechSilverSATA for
> $268 including drive and tray = if I can find a drive and install it myself
> that would be okay too.  Suggestions? --
>
>
> Victoria L. Herring, Des Moines, Iowa -  Civil rights,  Discrimination &
> Employment Law Attorney;  Des Moines, Iowa: http://www.herringlaw.com.  Ph.
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