[geeks] Impressive...

[Mark Benson]

On 9 Mar 2009, at 17:57, Joshua Boyd wrote:

> So, how do you think that Drobo is pulling off that trick?  They
> appear
> (if their file system space estimator is to be trusted) to go from a
> mirror to a raid5 transparently, and claim to be able to grow or
> shrink
> the raid5 seemlessly.
>
> I've been trying to figure out how they do it.

I'm fascinated by Drobo too. It seems like the Ultimate storage pool
system to me, expansible, adaptive, redundant and simple to work with.

I doubt it's 100% perfect, but it is Damn Good I'm tempted to bag one
and a Network module.


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