Scott Mallinson

Software development engineer

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I’ve received an early Christmas present. My Drobo 5D seems to have died. Thankfully everything is backed up, but now considering alternative storage solutions. I’ll likely go for a NAS rather than DAS.

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  1. Dean Moulder avatar
    Dean Moulder

    Eek, how did that happen, arnt these things meant to have several layers of redundancy?

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  2. Scott Mallinson avatar
    Scott Mallinson

    There’s redundancy for the data that’s stored across the hard drives, but unfortunately it looks like the hardware enclosure/logic board has died. And not the first time it’s happened either!

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  3. Dean Moulder avatar
    Dean Moulder

    😮‍💨At least data is safe! Can transfer drives over to a NAS enclosure?

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  4. Scott Mallinson avatar
    Scott Mallinson

    If only it was that easy 😕 The data is stored in Drobo’s proprietary format. So I either have to migrate to another of Drobo’s products (highly unlikely), or download everything from my off-site backup.

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  5. Dean Moulder avatar
    Dean Moulder

    Not a ringing endorsement for Drobo, that!

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  6. Scott Mallinson avatar
    Scott Mallinson

    I’ve had my eye on a Synology NAS for a while, but it’s tricky knowing what to go for. My Drobo currently has 5 bays which are all occupied, and I’ve got several spare drives lying around. Plus an old, underpowered Netgear ReadyNAS not doing much.

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  7. Scott Mallinson avatar
    Scott Mallinson

    Yeah, plus en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drobo#:~:….

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