Drobo: An interesting USB storage device

[Romana Challans]

Richard Sharpe wrote:
> Everyone is entitled to an opinion ...
> 
> The device looks like a disk drive (from the Linux point of view, since
> it is just another USB Storage device) that is variable in size and
> supports some mode pages to handle the extra features. It can be used
> under Linux but there are some issues, like the fact that it pretends to
> be a 2TB unit but doesn't really have 2TB unless you have, say four
> 750GB drives or some 1TB drives and some 750GB drives and then it will
> pretend to have 2 LUNs each with 2TB ... so some utilities (and/or a
> library) will be needed to allow the device to be used from Linux in the
> same was as it can be from Windows or Mac OS X ... and the info for that
> will be available.
> 
> Also, Seagate doesn't make the firmware for their drives available, I
> believe. Neither do the other drive manufactures. There's a fine line
> between pleasure and pain :-)
> 
> Regards
> -------
> Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]richardsharpe.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org,
> sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com

review of drobo, for those interested:)
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2007/06/drobo_storage_robot_review_ver.html

r:)
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