Drobo Dashboard can show used/available space

@donnacha

dang dude, what's with this "if you have control issues...life's mission..." stuff?

The appropriate place would be under a Drobo Review Article, for which there is at least one on this site. JT was bringing up a feature or something people might not know, non-related comments are distracting. I'm not trying to control anything...just saying, it might be curteous to do the griping or fanboying somewhere else.

Can anyone tell me if it is possible to use Drobo as a Time Machine device?

If you people want to talk about the pros and cons of the Drobo, do it somewhere else. This is not the appropriate post.

Thanks for the hint TJ, I've never noticed that...and yes...we need an SL dashboard now!

You all realize that you can just take the drives out of any drobo (that may have some hardware failure) and put them in another working drobo and it should all work fine...

I have a drobo and it works fine. However, the fact that they dont have a new dashboard for snow leopard is really annoying and scary. Basically, i cant launch the dashboard or it tells my drobo i have no space and I get the red lights.

Yep, well and good, but when one's 'infallible' super backup protected Drobo decides to trash it's directory file all you have is 4 x 1.5TB of JUNK! I bought this thing because it was supposed to protect you in the event of hard drive failure, but somehow or other it trashed it's file directory, so all the hard drives are fine, but I can't read a DAMN THING on them!!! This is NOT AT ALL what I expected to get when I paid so much for this thing! I would have been better off upgrading my LaCies!
From a Not at all happy Drobo 2 owner!

The drobo is quite a unique item which may be why it gets more coverage that a vanillia jbod or mirror array storage device. Someone that gets burned with a double redundancy backup system sounds like it wasn't very redundant. My drobo is an online archive storage with double offline external backups. If my drobo was stolen, it would take me only a day or two to rebuild it from these external offlines. There should never ever be a case where a single point of failure takes out the whole backup.

I'm a happy owner of a DroboPro and other than the fact they're slow to upgrade their software I'm really happy with the product.

Currently, if I install their Dashboard software on Snow Leopard I start getting all sorts of issues with accessing the DroboPro. They haven't released an update yet and I'm not sure I trust their software to start using it once they release a SL compatible Dashboard. Right now it fails to load the iSCSI extension (I'm running the 32-bit kernel, so it shouldn't be an issue) and I start getting errors when trying to copy stuff off the Drobo.

If I don't use their Dashboard software everything works perfectly well in SL and I haven't had a single issue with it.

I agree with Microdot as far as proprietary solutions go. If my DroboPro crashes I have no way to access my data. Data Robotics should provide users with a tool to access the data in the hard drives in the case of a hardware failure.

alright... i dont want to beat around the bush with this, so i'll just come out and ask:

how much is data robotics paying you guys? and if not you personally... weblogs?

i have seen nothing but stories about drobo for quite a while now. and i honestly cannot remember a single bad word uttered about it. yet... nobody has touched upon the outrageous number of horror stories around the net. and yes.. im aware there are horror stories with all types of hard drives... its not something specific to drobo. however, once you throw your data into a proprietary system that only data robotics can recover... the magnitude of a simple array failure is amplified significantly.

im not hating on drobo.. or tuaw... but come on!!! what is this... the 8 or 9th positive article in the last 6 months? how about a mention of some of the competitors... like sans digital, icy dock, owc, etc.

maybe im a little touchy on the backup subject... but ive been through an almost catastrophic event with backups that almost cost me my company (two levels of backup werent enough).... and expanded upon that this weekend (you can click to view the site in my profile if you want to read my alternative)

/rant