[REVIEW] Drobo

Paul Sharpe paul at coreware.co.uk
Fri Jan 30 11:24:03 GMT 2009


2009/1/30 Léon Brocard <acme at astray.com>:
> 2009/1/30 Paul Sharpe <paul at coreware.co.uk>:
>
>> I've heard various people say that Seagate are better than WD both in
>> terms of MTBF and RMA.  There was some kind of firmware issue with
>> Seagate 1.5TB drives and Drobo recently.
>
> The official Drobo store sells them:
>
>  http://www.drobostore.com/storefront/welcome.do

I couldn't see any 1.5TB drives on that page.  Anyway, last I heard
they were *beginning* to support them but there was a risk of drives
in the supply chain with the unsupported firmware.

Caveat emptor.  YMMV. WTF. etc.

paul



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