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The Drobo does not have that many features and that makes for a simple and easy interface to configure it.

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The Drobo Dashboard software is quite intuitive and very easy to grasp. However, because the Drobo has no form of anti-vibration on the hard drives the noise from vibration can be pretty substantial. It is definitely not silent as it does suck air through the device but it is not bad. The Drobo itself does not make all that much noise. So for me personally the relatively slow transfer speeds are not a deal-breaker. Besides I for the most part is accessing the Drobo’s over WIFI so that is going to be the bottleneck anyway. Still, the transfer speed is a great improvement over my old FreeNAS server. The newer models should have greatly improved transfer speeds. PerformanceĪt best the read speed is 50MB/s and write speed is 25MB/s. While I do not know I would hope that rebuild time is faster on newer models. That is a long time and if the Drobo only is configured in single redundancy mode then a disk failure doing that time would result in catastrophic failure and data loss. If the time is proportional to hard drive capacity then based on the numbers above replacing a 6 TB would take over 60 hours to rebuild the array. Replacing a 1TB hard drive with a 2 TB hard drive takes about 10 hours. I have replaced several hard drives with a larger capacity and it takes a very long time to rebuild. So it has been six months since I migrated to the Drobo’s and so far the Drobo’s has been rock solid and I have not had any issues at all. For me and my situation, the pros long outweigh the cons for now. It is based on looking at the pros and cons of the device you make a decision if you can use that device or not. No product is perfect and every device will have compromises that are just life. I concluded from my little internet research is that using a Drobo is better than using a standard hardware or software RAID but worse the using ZFS with for example FreeNAS. I have absolutely taken that into my considerations. Most of those issues seemed to be Drobo’s that died. Now before you rip my head off I did come across people with legitimate issues. Various blog posts and YouTube videos have proven that people do stupid things to their Drobo and get mad at Drobo because they lost data. Because the Drobo is not idiot-proof, no device is, if you do stupid things you can get in trouble really fast.

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I will argue that some knowledge of the basics of RAID and how to properly use the Drobo is still required. While the Drobo company is positioning the Drobo as simple to use consumer NAS/DAS server. However, most of the issues people were having were caused by a lack of understanding of how the Drobo actually works and what a Drobo is and what it is not. I also ran into some horror stories of people having issues.

Some sort of data scrubbing is done on Drobo’s > 2gen.

For reference the answers I was able to find from various sources (mostly forums) to the above questions are. But then again the Drobo’s are a very proprietary product so that is kind of to be expected, I guess.

Can I use a tool to recover my data if the Unit itself dies?įinding technical information proved to be quite difficult which was very disappointing.

What does Drobo do to ensure data integrity and prevent bit rot?.

Here are some of the questions from the top of my list. ResearchĪfter using the Drobo’s for a while I had some questions and I began searching the internet for answers. It has been about six months with the Drobo‘s and here is my Drobo update as I promised in my blog post I Replaced My FreeNAS Server With A Drobo where I also explain why I came to use Drobo. While the Drobo’s I have is an older model (Drobo-FS) most of the information in this post should apply to newer models as well.