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GhostInTheMachine

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  1. Greyfossil,<br /> <br /> If you can, return the Drobo and buy a different NAS. I wish I had that option, instead I listed to Drobo support through my return policy duration and now I'm stuck with a horrible product.
  2. I think those who have used a Drobo for any length of time will understand, thanks for the confirmation. I have a friend who has a lot of experience with NAS devices and he too recommends Synology DS series (DS411+).<br /> <br /> I'm at a loss of the initial cost of my Drobo, the thing is just plain UNUSABLE. I have to restore a disk before I can get my data (music store) off the thing, and that process literally takes days! It's been sitting in my closet for a couple of years now collecting dust, one of these days I need to fire it up to go through the restore process so I can get my music back.<br /> <br /> When it was under warranty, the manufacturer sent me a replacement unit and a new power supply, and the new unit behaved no differently that the original - they claimed to have fixed the issue.
  3. Don't be fooled by Drobo's 'simplicity' marketing, the concept is good but their implementation is horrible in terms of living with your Drobo. My Drobo eats disks like popcorn, my usage is spent 80% recovering due to hard disk failures and the other 20% of the time it does work. The larger your music collection grows, the longer it takes for Drobo to restore it's file system from a hard disk failure. Western Digtial knows me well as I have sent in countless hard disks under warranty to be replaced because Drobo complained of a hard disk failure. Of all the NAS out there, I think Drobo is at the bottom of the list in terms of reliability. It's all proprietary. You will be better off going with any major brand instead of Drobo.
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