[geeks] Impressive...

[Francois Dion]

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Mark Benson <md.benson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

I think this guy agrees with you:

http://billstreeter.net/2008/03/18/do-not-buy-a-drobo/

:)