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Getting the most from your camcorder: tips, tricks, and new products for those who want to take better videos.
Jun 13, 2007 6:25 PM
Posted by Adam Nielson
Drobo: The little storage device that could
Posted by Adam Nielson
 Tech blog Engadget recently featured a review of the Data Robotics Drobo. Any of you who haven't been following this little guy should be adequately wowed by the demo video. Drobo is a USB storage device, which holds four SATA drives, and offers the security of a RAID 5 setup without all the headaches.For one thing, users can fill Drobo up with drives of varied capacity, meaning you could throw that old 160 gig SATA you have lying around right in next to a brand new 500 GB hard drive. As you buy more drives to complete the quartet, you simply slide them in, and Drobo recognizes and formats them on the fly. The drives are hot swapable, so should a failure arise, all you have to do is slap a new one in there, and drobo will return everything to the way it was. The best part is, users can perform all this configuring,and reconfiguring without shutting Drobo down, or losing access to the data. For the video elite, however, there are some drawbacks. Drobo is a USB device, and because of it's architecture, Drobo provides somewhat modest throughput. DV editors could certainly use it as a storage device, but Drobo simply isn't fast enough for high end, high def editing. Still, as a backup device, Drobo offers unparalleled ease of use, and security, and would be a perfect solution for the Gigabites of stuff for which you just need a place. Technorati Tags:
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