Re: [Hampshire] Linux drobo alternative

Blimey! I've just had a look on eBay for one. Have you seen the price?!?!?!?

I can see why you'd want a software version. ;o)

Richard

John Hunt wrote:
> No doubt many of you have heard of a product called Drobo [1] which has
> now been around for quite a while.
>
> In a nutshell, Drobo is a proprietary data storage box with 4 3.5" sata
> slots, and a USB2 connection to your pc.
>
> The thing I *really* like about drobo is the fact you can hot swap
> disks, the ability to use totally different size/make/speed of disks and
> the fact it rebuilds its array (like normal raid arrays) upon disk
> failiure / disk pullout.
>
> The array appears as one partition (or however many you like I guess.)
>
> I was wondering if it's possible to do this with Linux using software
> raid, or if not, some kind of special hardware controller. Of course
> you'd probably stick LVM on top of that to 'glue' them together. I like
> the idea of Drobo, but I also like tinkering and using Linux.
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drobo
>
> Thanks!
> John.
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