Drobopro

I previously wrote about my impressions of the DroboPro, and in case I was not clear, I was not impressed. I recently read the announcement of the new QNAP TS-859 Pro, and from the literature it seemed like a great device, high performance, feature rich, and power saving. The TS-859 Pro is now available, and I compared it with the DroboPro, and against a regular W2K8R2 file server. ...

In this post I am describing, and partly reviewing, my experience using a DroboPro over iSCSI. I have been aware of the Drobo storage devices for some time now, but never used one or knew anybody that owned one. Recently a coworker’s large home RAID system had a controller failure, and after recovering the data, he migrated to a DroboPro using iSCSI. After he told me how quiet the device is, and how little power it uses, I wanted to try one out myself. ...