Greg Freemyer wrote:
Got my Drobo today. So far I'm not impressed.
Pros:
I plugged in 8 1TB drives and it saw them and let me thin provision a 16TB volume.
That sounds like a major pro (or con) - 16Tb with only 8Tb space :-) I guess it automagically dealt with RAID levels and such?
I pulled out one of the 1TB drives and popped in my 10TB drive. It recognized it and rebuilt my volume. The rebuild only took a minute or two, but I only have 6GB of data on the volume and it is thin provisioned, so not much data to move around.
Resync'ing 16Gb on plain ol' spinning SATA drives will take a while longer. If the time-to-resync on the Drobo varies with the amount of data, the logic is at a different level. Interesting, I think.
Regardless, you have to do the initial setup from a Windows / Mac PC.
I probably would not count that as a 'pro'. :-) -- Per Jessen, Zürich (0.2°C) http://www.cloudsuisse.com/ - your owncloud, hosted in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org