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sim — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:38:25 -0000

to paul: i'm guessing it's more like http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

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Joe Reifer — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:41:13 -0000

You might want to have a look at professional photographer Doug Plummer's report on his experience with Drobo.

- JR

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paul — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:41:08 -0000

I'm a little confused on how the demo says that if a drive fails, you won't lose any data. Does that mean this device is writing redundant copies of your files to all 4 drives? If so, you're pretty much limited to the size of the smallest drive then, right?

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Melicia — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:30:14 -0000

I have and this thing is SOOOO much easier to use than the ReadyNAS product! I'm selling my ReadyNAS on eBay now...

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dmitry kohmanyuk — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:43:24 -0000

check out Infrant ReadyNAS product.
They were recently bought by Netgear.

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Lori — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:03:25 -0000

Gah, I wish I'd seen this over the weekend, when I was agonizing over data storage. So neat!

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Chris — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:37:42 -0000

that thing is absolutely amazing! I want one right away. I just lost a usb hdd that I used for backups... and this woulda saved my ass!