The Last Word

I got distracted with the Drobo, but I’ve finally gotten around to writing the post on paper testing that I promised last month. One of the reasons for the delay is a struggle to distinguish truth from opinion.  As I wrote, I slowly came to realize that each piece of advice falls into a continuum [...]

I’ll need a few months of glitch-free operation before this is more than provisional, but it looks like the Drobo is a pretty good solution for off-site backup.
The good:

Using bare drives is a real plus. There’s no time wasted bolting the drives into trays, and they take up the least room in the safe deposit [...]

When we last looked at the Drobos, one of them was causing the OS to insert disk errors in the error log. I had also noticed that VVEngine couldn’t complete one large file transfer. It turned out that the two events occurred simultaneously, suggesting a common cause. I used Windows Explorer to transfer a much [...]

Anybody remember Jerry Pournelle’s column in Byte Magazine? In the spirit of that long-running account of Jerry’s struggles with technology, here’s a blow-by-blow of my experiences with the Drobo boxes. You are welcome to enjoy a bit of schadenfreude. Conclusions in the next post.
I ordered the first box from Amazon. It arrived in two [...]