Comments on: Drobo Review: Frickin’ Awesome

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:38:03 +0000

My Drobo keeps dropping offline as well. I’m afraid I’m going to lose my data. *sigh*

I found Don’s comment in a google search while attempting to determine a solution.

By: Don Rima

Don Rima — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:38:46 +0000

Damn Drobo keeps dropping offline! Can’t depend on it to stay online!

I sat here this evening during a copy and watched it do a complete self powercycle then stay off line!!! HOLY SHIT! DOES THIS SUCK OR WHAT!

By: Angelos

Angelos — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:24:17 +0000

Under no circumstances buy this junk. The Drobo internal Support blogs are full of posts from customers screaming about data lost for no apparent reason. I have lost over 4 TB of data when two Drobos failed on me while copying from one to the other.

Avoid if possible, use only if someone holds a gun to your head.

By: Heath

Heath — Thu, 29 May 2008 01:12:31 +0000

This reviewer doesn’t understand how the thing works. The data isn’t stored on each drive separately it is stored on all the drives as a whole. You can’t yank out a drive and throw in another “if you’re in a rush to get data into Drobo.” It will interpret that as a failure of part of the data set and then start a rebuild using the replacement drive (erasing it first). How does that “get data into the drive”? Also, there is no SATA II connection (except internally). It has USB2 only out. Maybe ESATA later on another version. Get better or quit.

By: drobot

drobot — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 06:31:35 +0000

obviously a lame “thanks for the free product” review… nothing else to say here…

By: Ross

Ross — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:53:53 +0000

Add a Gigabit port, and I will buy immediately. Why should this be a one computer box? I love the idea of hot-swap raided NAS that you can add to the network on the fly!

Other features that would be cool: Add card slots for my SD cards to upload my photos instantly. What else – maybe a wireless nic?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 23:26:46 +0000

Love the back it up idea. Just what I want to worry about with my backup device; that I have to back it up. It sounds interesting but I’m waiting for Windows Home Server !

By: Gary

Gary — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:46:54 +0000

Bought it. Installed it. Drobo failed within three days taking all of our data with it. This is a version 1.0 product. I should have known better.

Use it at your own risk. Make sure you back it up onto another device. Once it fails, there isn’t much chance of recovery. Don’t expect much help from tech support. My first call, after indicating that we were a business and we were down, was not returned for two days.

While I will acknowledge the cool factor associated with this product, it is still unreliable, and therefore useless.

BTW, we had full backups to recover from the failure, but it took time and effort to get back to where we started. I am considering sending a bill to Data Robotics for my trouble.

By: danaldonova

danaldonova — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 12:47:44 +0000

The Coupon Code REFDANA is good for $50 off your new drobo at the drobo. com store during the month of August!!!

By: j.c.

j.c. — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 18:09:57 +0000

“Drobo does come with a space for a Kensington lock so no one can walk off with your data.”

Wouldn’t this only secure the Drobo enclosure? It seems like a thief could simply open the Drobo’s front cover and slide the drives out.

By: avtguedyev

avtguedyev — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:34:19 +0000

Thanks for this site! hifue.info

By: cookiemonster

cookiemonster — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 13:10:19 +0000

Wombat – How do you know he gets $25? you an “evangelist” too? Sounds like jealousy to me.

p.s. How do you ‘fez up? put on a fez?

By: lordofallisurvey

lordofallisurvey — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 12:47:53 +0000

who cares if he’s getting a referral fee? If it knocks another 25 bucks off the price for me, I’m happy. If he gets something out of it too, good for him!

By: Wombat

Wombat — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 03:50:31 +0000

Hahaha, that danaldonova person keeps spamming every website with the mention of his/her referral code it’s sooo freaking annoying.. At least tell people you are getting a referral fee for pushing their product. Yeah… that’s right he/she is one of those “Evangelists” that is employed by Data Robotics to spam his referral code so that he can gain $25 each time someone uses his referral code to purchase the machine.

geez.. ‘fez up and tell people the honest truth about your code, it’s just being polite and considerate =\

By: danaldonova

danaldonova — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 12:42:11 +0000

FYI – For anyone looking to buy a drobo, the reference code / coupon REFDANA will save you $25 at their online store through July 31

By: Boris

Boris — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:16:25 +0000

thermo

Do you think adding FireWire compatibility would improve Drobo’s performance?

By: thermo

thermo — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:54:30 +0000

Spent the cash… wasn’t worth it. The device is SLOW! If you are copying a large file, forget about trying to access anything off the thing. the usb is much slower than a single drive.

Decided to take advantage of the money back guarantee… that was a royal hassle.. took a month to finally get my money after numerous phone calls.

overall result… not worth consideration.

By: Jason Schramm

Jason Schramm — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:30:19 +0000

Where do you get your hard drive prices? Did you even look it up? I was able to find 3 500GB SATA drives for around $110 each. Multiply that by 4 and you get $440. But you can always start with 2 drives for $200 and get more as you need them.

By: Fun gadgets

Fun gadgets — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 02:34:21 +0000

This would be cool to have, but no-way would I buy it at that price. If it had a gigabit port and would act as NAS, I’d bite since I could use it on all of my machines easily. However, $500 for a USB enclosure with hardware RAID (basically) is just WAY too much!

By: DavidC

DavidC — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 20:56:58 +0000

I own one of these – and it ROCKS!! I can add/delete drives on the fly. I have used it on my Mac and along with win 2003, XP and Vista. I have 1.4TB of stuff on it and it just runs.