D-Robo 4-Bay hard drive Enclosure for $458[views:11661][posts:87]______________________________________ [Dec 31,2008 6:38pm - the_reverend ""] http://www.ecost.com/detail.aspx?edp=41818...0)&cm_em=orders@returntothepit.comD I've wanted one of those forever... so tempted. bennyhillifier |
| ______________________________________ [Dec 31,2008 6:47pm - the_reverend ""] http://www.drobo.com/Products/drobolator.html 2x1.5TB and 2x750GB would be 4.5TB, 4.1TB after disc over head. put that into the Drobo would be 2.7TB of backed up space! so tempted... if they had an 8-bay for that price, it would be no question. |
| _____________________________________ [Dec 31,2008 7:30pm - xanonymousx ""] say what? is it like a raid drive? |
| ____________________________________ [Dec 31,2008 8:45pm - porphyria ""] I guess I still don't fully understand this thing...how does it distribute a the data of a failed drive AFTER it fails? What if there isn't enough space on the additional drives? Doesn't seem like this could be trusted as an alternative to the traditional raid 1 or something. |
| ______________________________________ [Dec 31,2008 8:46pm - the_reverend ""] WATCH THE FRIGGIN VIDEO! |
| ______________________________________ [Dec 31,2008 8:48pm - the_reverend ""] http://www.drobo.com/Products/BeyondRAID.html |
| ______________________________________ [Dec 31,2008 8:48pm - the_reverend ""] "If you already understand how RAID 0, 1, or 5 operates, you understand the fundamentals of BeyondRAID since it relies on the precisely the same underlying data protection methodologies, namely mirroring and striping with parity." |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 1,2009 12:37am - the_reverend ""] I'm still drooling over this, but just realized that my 2 750GB are IDE and not SATA. it supports up to 16TB.... drives that don't even exist now. How killer would it be to drop a 4TB drive into there. or 4x1.5TB... I've got piles of 500GB on the ground now. I'm seriously thinking about this as a solution to my storage problems... $450 isn't too bad for something that is scalable. How much was your Iomega? |
| _____________________________________ [Jan 1,2009 2:56am - the_reverend ""] im such a dork. have been thinking about this drive all night. |
| ________________________________________ [Jan 1,2009 9:48am - Conservationist ""] the_reverend said:I'm still drooling over this, but just realized that my 2 750GB are IDE and not SATA. it supports up to 16TB.... drives that don't even exist now. How killer would it be to drop a 4TB drive into there. or 4x1.5TB... I've got piles of 500GB on the ground now. I'm seriously thinking about this as a solution to my storage problems... $450 isn't too bad for something that is scalable. How much was your Iomega? Do it, and make it the file server for your home network. It's obviously going to stick around for awhile. In the world of storage technology, $450 is a crackwhore blow job -- cheap and it happens quickly. Go for it. And never buy anything from Iomega. |
| _____________________________________ [Jan 1,2009 9:52am - the_reverend ""] tom (aka porphyria) had an iomega that died and then sent him another, but it was a refurb. Then sent another that was a refurb with all 1.5TB's. and then they sent another one that had all the drives in it that he had. I'm debating now, the first gen drobo is only $359. The second gen are $459. This really would be the best solution for me and all my drives. If this were before xmas, I would have probably gotten carina one. the 1st gen one of course. |
| ________________________________________ [Jan 1,2009 9:54am - Conservationist ""] the_reverend said:tom (aka porphyria) had an iomega that died and then sent him another, but it was a refurb. Then sent another that was a refurb with all 1.5TB's. and then they sent another one that had all the drives in it that he had. I had the same experience with another Iomega product in 1996 or so. the_reverend said:I'm debating now, the first gen drobo is only $359. The second gen are $459. This really would be the best solution for me and all my drives. If this were before xmas, I would have probably gotten carina one. the 1st gen one of course. Figure out if your RAM works. If it doesn't, RMA the fuckers. Then add up the total bill for RAM + drobo and see how bad it looks to you. Chances are you need all of it. A recent upgrade for me was a chance to end some nagging problems, and get some old dying equipment out of the house. I filled it with goat porn and donated it to a church. |
| _____________________________________ [Jan 1,2009 9:56am - the_reverend ""] and this will be good until hard drives get bigger than 4TB. |
| ________________________________________ [Jan 1,2009 9:58am - Conservationist ""] That would be an insane amount of storage. Is there even that much anal pron in the univ--- well, of course there is. |
| _____________________________________ [Jan 1,2009 9:58am - the_reverend ""] oh, I bought new RAM... 4GB of 1066MHZ ($69) stuff and it won't step down to the 800MHZ speed that the motherboard takes. so I'm using some old 533MHZ from a computer that never really worked. one of the sticks is bad. I guess I could RMA it, but I'm going to have to get 4GB of 800MHZ RAM anyhow. I'm just trying to find someone who will traid 4GB of 800mhz for 4GB of 106mhz. |
| _____________________________________ [Jan 1,2009 9:59am - the_reverend ""] Conservationist said:That would be an insane amount of storage. Is there even that much anal pron in the univ--- well, of course there is.Need more slav slaves |
| ________________________________________ [Jan 1,2009 9:59am - Conservationist ""] Good point. Sounds like a Craigslist dilemma at this point. That's weird about the RAM not stepping down. Who made it? |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 1,2009 10:08am - the_reverend ""] wait, it was $59 when the 800mhz was $39. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...-_-Content-_-text-_-N82E16820231166 |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 1,2009 11:07am - the_reverend ""] hm... time to find a dell 25% off coupon http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/product...l.aspx?c=us&l=en&cs=19&sku=A1755231 |
| _________________________________________ [Jan 1,2009 11:18am - Conservationist ""] the_reverend said: Conservationist said:That would be an insane amount of storage. Is there even that much anal pron in the univ--- well, of course there is.Need more slav slaves We can get 'em cheap around here, in addition to Mexican girls and Thai ladyboys. 25% off $499 is quite hefty. That puts you within range of rev1 prices. |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 1,2009 11:35am - the_reverend ""] I tried buying a 25% off coupon on fleabay, but none of them will work on this unit. I think I'm probably going to just bite the bullet. I have 2x1.5TB and 2x500GB that can go in it now. |
| _________________________________________ [Jan 1,2009 11:53am - Conservationist ""] Sometimes, it's worth the cost just to centralize resources, and make maintenance less chaotic. |
| _____________________________________ [Jan 1,2009 6:34pm - the_reverend ""] yeah, that's what I'm thinking... but then I will have a couple extra 500's and 750's to do something with... 500 (IDE) to my PS3, 750 (IDE) into my TIVO. that leaves me with the SATA II drives: 2x1.5TB 1x750GB 5x500GB plus 2x500GB that are already in enclosures. |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 1,2009 10:02pm - the_reverend ""] why didn't alex look at this thread? |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 1,2009 10:12pm - the_reverend ""] looks like in 2011, 4TB drives! On Monday, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (GST) announced that it expects to be shipping 4TB desktop and 1TB laptop drives by 2011 |
| _____________________________________ [Jan 2,2009 9:31am - the_reverend ""] up |
| _________________________________________ [Jan 2,2009 10:12am - Conservationist ""] the_reverend said:looks like in 2011, 4TB drives! On Monday, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (GST) announced that it expects to be shipping 4TB desktop and 1TB laptop drives by 2011 Translation: the earliest you'll want to buy them is in 2012 (when the world ends). However, as it is... dude, you have a shitload of storage. I hope you abuse it irresponsibly. As frightening as it is to face this fact, I think I could fill 4 TB of MP3s without breaking a sweat. |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 2,2009 11:39am - the_reverend ""] right now, I have 175gb of mp3s that I have collected. |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 2,2009 10:34pm - the_reverend ""] ordered for $408. |
| _________________________________________ [Jan 2,2009 10:53pm - Conservationist ""] the_reverend said:right now, I have 175gb of mp3s that I have collected. That's impressive. Really impressive. I guess it'd be cheating, but one thing I like to have around are FLACs. You can listen to them at the machine, or burn them to CD and have a perfect copy of the original. It's the best way to get a lot of out of print music, especially from the 1930s-1960s. |
| __________________________________ [Jan 2,2009 10:59pm - dertoxia ""] im really interested to know how this works |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 2,2009 11:10pm - the_reverend ""] if I like this, I'm going to troll for a refurb'd unit to put 4x500GB at work. |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 2,2009 11:16pm - the_reverend ""] BTW, I got my system running with DIMM1: 2GB 800mhz DIMM2: 2GB 1066Mhz DIMM3: 1GB 800mhz (former 533mhz memory) DIMM4: 2GB 1066Mhz and it boots. if I replace DIMM3 with anything else, it won't boot. I just need a 64-bit system now. |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 2,2009 11:16pm - the_reverend ""] os |
| __________________________________ [Jan 2,2009 11:16pm - dertoxia ""] i have a 160GB in my MythTV computer. I think i paid like 270 for in like 2002. I hate buying storage cause that shit always happens. I could go out and buy a 1TB right now for less than this 160GB cost me....but then in a couple years i'll be able to get a 160TB drive for the same price. |
| __________________________________ [Jan 2,2009 11:17pm - dertoxia ""] wait rev....are all 4 of those slots the same color? Actually the color doesnt even matter, i know a lot of boards alternate between single and dual-channel slots. |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 2,2009 11:17pm - the_reverend ""] I blew $240 on a 8GB once. I like this drobo cause it will be good with hard drives until 2013. |
| _________________________________________ [Jan 2,2009 11:19pm - Conservationist ""] the_reverend said:BTW, I got my system running with DIMM1: 2GB 800mhz DIMM2: 2GB 1066Mhz DIMM3: 1GB 800mhz (former 533mhz memory) DIMM4: 2GB 1066Mhz and it boots. if I replace DIMM3 with anything else, it won't boot. I just need a 64-bit system now. Holy crap. Very cool. How does the 2:1 on slots 1,3 work out? |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 2,2009 11:24pm - the_reverend ""] I'm running a 32-bit system, so I'm guessing that it is 1 and 3. I need to install a 64-bit system to see the rest. If I could get grub to load win xp by default, I would load up 64-bit ubuntu. |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 2,2009 11:25pm - the_reverend ""] some dude at work is going to give me his vista ultimate 64-bit license cause it was given to him and he doesn't need it. |
| _________________________________________ [Jan 2,2009 11:34pm - Conservationist ""] Nice late Xmas gift there! |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 2,2009 11:52pm - the_reverend ""] yeah, lik ethe gift that keeps giving AIDS. I just used the calculator. 1x500, 1x750, 2x1.5tb is 2.5TB of useable space. Then I added 4x1.5TB and it's 4.1TB or space. |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 2,2009 11:52pm - the_reverend ""] of space |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 2,2009 11:57pm - the_reverend ""] oh, I'm also writing a disc stats app. it's going to scan all files and make an image of name/date/size and possibly a file hash. Run it each month so I can see if a virus has affected anything. It will give me a change stats page. |
| _________________________________________ [Jan 3,2009 12:19am - Conservationist ""] A friend did this for his hosted Linuxen. It's not a bad idea at all. You need at least one screen in your house that's an uber control panel. That way, not only is it useful, but you can pretend to be Batman at the Batcomputer. |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 3,2009 12:25am - the_reverend ""] I will slide down a pole for that. |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 3,2009 12:28am - the_reverend ""] I'm going through my 2 manually mirrored 1.5TB drives and deleting all the files that shouldn't be there.... lame. |
| _________________________________________ [Jan 3,2009 10:25am - Conservationist ""] http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/02/0626201 |
| ____________________________________ [Jan 3,2009 10:36am - porphyria ""] the_reverend said:$450 isn't too bad for something that is scalable. How much was your Iomega? I think it was $550, but it also came with 2 x seagate 750GB drives. I run them Raid 1. |
| ____________________________________ [Jan 3,2009 10:43am - porphyria ""] the_reverend said:tom (aka porphyria) had an iomega that died and then sent him another, but it was a refurb. Then sent another that was a refurb with all 1.5TB's. and then they sent another one that had all the drives in it that he had. haha yeah, I had 4 of the things at one point, sent back two of the refurbs which were damaged in shipping due to poor packing from their warehouse and finally got them to send me a brand new one from the headquarters. I still haven't sent back the original case with drives and haven't heard anything from them. So I basically got to keep 2 extra 750gb drives...I kinda figured they could actually care less if I sent them the defective case with drives back. 6TB of hd action! lol. [img] |