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The Drobo Storage Robot

A interessanes piece of hardware for the data dump is Drobo from Data Robotics, Inc. Drobo is connected via Firewire and defaults or USB2.0 as a direct drive to the host.

In addition, there are DroboShare makes the Drobo a NAS, but DroboShare supports out of the box just as SMB network file system.

Here come the DroboApps into play with these packages can be added to DroboShare some useful features such as:

• Firefly - an iTunes Media Server
• Userland NFS - an NFS server
• Dropbear SSH - an SSH server

In addition, there are outside of DroboApps backmyfruitup Time Machine backups on Drobo DroboShare via store.

The interesting thing about the Drobo and the capacity can be increased dynamically, ie the smallest disk is low, larger disk clean and ready. Drobo takes care of the expansion of the volume, data is stored here, of course redundant.

Depending on the size of the disks can be expected with the capacity Drobolator be determined.

On display is a marvel in Videpräsentation on the Drobo website, many thanks to the very nice to be regarded "Cali Lewis".

Here are some reviews Drobo or DroboShare to:

• http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/Reviews/Drobo-DroboShare-In-Depth-Review.html
• http://sweet-jesus.org/?p=7
• http://ifakedit.com/log/2008/08/13/drobo-performance-through-droboshare-with-graph/
  • (However, for Drobo1)
• http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/24609792/m/535007454931

A interessanes piece of hardware for the data dump is Drobo from Data Robotics, Inc. Drobo By default connected via FireWire or USB 2.0 as a direct drive to the host. Additionally, there are ...