Just a quick side note: Thanks to Alan and co on the Ubuntu UK podcast
for talking about Drobo - no linux alternative! Great podcast show guys!
Cheers,
John.
On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 05:41 +0100, Richard Setford wrote:
> 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.
> >
> >
> >
