GeekBrief.TV Reviews the Drobo: "Self Healing" Storage
Hard drives are getting larger and cheaper as day goes by. We store more and more precious data and one thing that we don’t realize (until it is too late); It is not a matter of “ifâ€, it is the matter of “when†our hard drives crash.
There are option to protect your data such implementing a RAID (available in both software and hardware: redundant array of inexpensive drives (or disks), also known as redundant array of independent drives), but it is not very friendly to consumer.
Drobo is a new innovative storage robot, which make the data protection and management easy to average consumers. Comes with four hard disk slots, Drobo pools them together as one enormous drive. If you insert an 80 GB SATA, a 250 GB SATA, and a 110 GB EIDE, it will handle them all as one continuous storage pool of 440 GB external drive accessible via USB 2.0.
Drives are hot-swappable and no tools are involved: open the case and pop in the new storage. It also detects if a drive is failing and does what it can about it. It states the entire storage pool is “protected†and in general that Drobo is “self-aware†or “self-healingâ€. It’s not clear precisely how Drobo “protects†your data or is “self-aware.
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Geekbrief.TV Cali Lewis has had the device for few weeks, she post her latest review. Subscribe to GeekBrief.tv HERE! Click on picture to stream this episode (watch on your browser) |
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