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Drobo or Windows Home Server?

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

The Drobo is basically like a usb external drive, although I have heard a Ethernet connection is planned for the future, but right now you can only connect it to the PC via usb. The main feature of the Drobo are the four slots for hard drives and will work with any combination of drives capacity. Unlike and a raid setup or Windows Home Server if you put three 200gb drives and one 100gb drive it will assume the smallest hard drive of the four so it will think you have four 100gb drives. The Drobo on the other hand will see the difference in drives sizes.

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Back up your back up

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

I’ve heard stories of people who backup their data to an external hard drive which is great and wonderful, but than their external hard drive fails without warning and they end up spending money for programs to help retrieve those precious files.

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