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- My rating: 0 stars
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0.5 stars
"Drobo can fails without warning (despite claims)."
Pros: The Drobo *seems* to behave as claimed. The design is great. The concept is fantastic.
Cons: Claims by Data Robotics as shown on their website, knowledge database and support staff does not match actual performance. It can fail or freeze without the warning, protection, or graceful failure that Data Robotics claims.
Summary: My rating is to reflect the seriousness of how important trust in advertising claims. I've had my second generation Drobo for 6 months with 3 unexplained incidents of file corruption, a complete failure of a DroboShare and just today... the Drobo froze completely without any warning as claimed. I inserted a new third hard drive to assure that I have plenty of space and plenty of flexibiilty for the drobo to protect my data. A drive that was once on their safe list which has now been removed. (Seagate Barracuda 7200 1.5T) Despite this, Data Robotics claims that the drobo will inform you in several ways that if there is either eminent drive failure or failure of a drive, the other drives and data are protected. After inserting the drive, the drobo behaved as it should, and accepted the new drive. But after finding a another unexplained corrupted file, I thought I would verify what was going on. So, as per instructions, I put the drobo in standby, disconnected it from the drobo share, then reconnected it with a PC so I could run a chkdsk. The Drobo would not re-mount it?s volume. Since this is under warranty, instead of further troubleshooting I called tech support and was informed that the Drobo had froze. I have done everything by the book and I?m not a novice. I now realize that my faith in the device is horribly wrong. I still don?t know why the new drive may have caused an issue, but a failure of this type is totally unacceptable in light of what the company claims the device does. They?re all about protecting your data, making sure that a single drive failure does not interrupt service or destroy data. Once we removed the new drive (that was just moments earlier claimed to be fine) the drobo was able to remount the volume and start to ?re-layout? the volume again at the earlier smaller size. I can get to the files now, but I no longer have any trust in the device or the company.
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