Drobo or LacIe Raid for hard drive for Time Machine

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Drobo or LacIe Raid for hard drive for Time Machine

I am looking to move my time machine backup (and other hard drive backup) to a larger drive. I was considering the LacIe 2GIG Raid (1GIG data) or the Drobo

The Drobo seems like a better opton - any feedback would be great.

imac 24, Mac OS X (10.5.5)

Posted on Aug 2, 2009 11:00 AM

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Answer 1

Pondini

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Aug 2, 2009 11:20 AM in response to softwaredeveloper99

Search this forum for Drobo and you'll find a few posts. Some good, some not so good.

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Answer 2

JasonFear

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Aug 2, 2009 11:34 AM in response to softwaredeveloper99

I can't speak to the LaCie 2GIG RAID solution but I've been running a Drobo (2nd gen) with 4, 1TB HDs in it for about 5 months and have been very pleased with functionality. I migrated the 2.2GB of data I had into the cluster and the process took about 5 hours (setting up the Drobo, cloning the old backup solution and migrating it into the new setup).

It's definitely a bit more costly than the new 2TB Time Capsule solution or even to go multiple 1TB external drives but the convenience factor is certainly there.

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