Drobo: An interesting USB storage device

[Richard Sharpe]

On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Daryl Tester wrote:

> Richard Sharpe wrote:
>
>> A USB Storage device that will be available in Australia soon I am led to
>> believe.
>
> Interesting attention to the user interface; I'm impressed.  From the
> demonstration video the recovery time seems a little quick given the
> amount of data shuffling I thought would have been involved.

There was probably only a tiny amount of data on it during the demo 
(compared with, say four 1TB drives which produces two LUNs sharing some 
2.7TB of space in the storage pool).

> It would be interesting to see it as a NAS/iSCSI device.

I can't confirm or deny ...

Regards
-------
Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]richardsharpe.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org,
sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com