Not Drobo

[Barry Bishop]

I haven't had any issues with Drobo, but I would second the LTO-5 route.

[Imran Farouk]

Drobo Pro failed on me, 2 x Drobo 4 Bay fail...

I seriously have no clue why the hell I kept buying their products, I figured it wouldn't happen and damn me to hell it did...

Guess my next route is Synology... though I am hoping cheaper thunderbolt raids will come out in the future, really craving a Promise Thunderbolt 6 bay

[Tom.Wong]

I had a client hand a drobo to me as one of the backup drives. Turned it on, wouldn't mount.

esata, fw800, usb. didn't wanna mount. told them to return it and used g drives instead. It's junk.

[Ben McCarthy]

I'd also go with the Synology great unit for backup

Cheaper and smaller drives config, and more "tinker able" is the HP

http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/me/en...346.html?dnr=1

[Justin Harrison]

So the Drobo at work just died :(

It had been running really slow the past few weeks and would be on again off again for awhile, and now it's dead.

Luckily I had time to back it all up, but just another warning!

[Paul S.]

Yeah Drobo sucks, i found out two units along.I'm still hoping for that red raid that Jarred hinted might be in the pipeline. I'm pretty sure there's a world of improvement possible, both on the NLE performance side and also home 4k friendly video servers.

[William Albertini]

I have had 2 four bay Drobos for the past 3 years or so and I find them great for their purpose: backup. They are slow even on fw800 and have never been intended (I am only talking about 4 bay) as a high speed video solution. Some people see the label "raid" and miss the fact there are many different flavors.

[Christopher Barrett]

I've had a Drobo Pro for a couple years. It's been fine. Now that my expansion chassis is coming, though, I'm adding eSATA back to the tower, which Drobo seems to be conflicting with and crashy. What sucks is, to unload it, I'll totally fill the new RAID tower I'm getting. Damn-it-to-hell!!!

[Trevor Meeks]

Never had any issues with Drobo not working. I had a 4-bay FW800 unit that I stored iTunes content on for a couple of years before selling it. I now have a DroboProFS (network-attached 16TB) and use it to store all of my iTunes content and backup the RAID0 that I edit off of. Drobo support was great about the only issue I had with it - a noisy cooling fan - and promptly send me a replacement unit to swap my drives into. As long as you understand the limits of the system, it works like a charm. I won't edit from the thing (it's too slow, especially with the WD Caviar Green drives I put in mine) but otherwise it serves up the media and software files that I keep on it just fine, and has been a steady backup platform for the large files on my RAID.

[Sergio Perez]

I'm using Lacie 4big Quadra. No issues so far. Have hard many horror stories with Lacie, but have been using their drives for more than 7 years and none failed until now (about 30+ D2 drives and counting). The only occasional problem I had was with their AC adapters and connecting pins.