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<blockquote data-quote="zicoz" data-source="post: 427610" data-attributes="member: 24585">I've looked at the Drobo quite a few times, but some stuff buggs me.&nbsp;- They brag about the &quot;hotswap&quot; capabilities for growing the &quot;raid&quot; (I know it's not raid but for the lack of a better term I'll use it in &quot;&quot;), but how does this work if your D-Unit is filled to the brim of both disks and data? I can't just pull a disk out and insert another can I? What happens to the data that was on that disk then? Is all the data in the &quot;raid&quot; unavailable untill it's rebuilt? How long does it take?&nbsp;- Speed What speeds are you getting from the thing. FireWire claims what?&nbsp; 400MB/S, but I have never seen these speeds from a FW- unit. And the same goes for USBs 60MB/s. Then offcourse there is the price. $1300 is a bit too steep for something that holds 8 disks and can't be expanded by adding a raid-card.Personally I'm using Nexenta Core with ZFS atm, easy to set up (Zpool create Mediapool raidZ disk 1-8) and expand (zpool add Mediapool RaidZ disk 9-15) Mine is currently Currently running two RaidZs in a pool, one with 8x 1TB disks and one I belive have 6x1TB disks.Across my G-bit network I'm getting stable 60MB/s transfer speeds, and I've seen it burst as high as 78-80 MB/sThe only problem is the price on raid-cards that have more than 4 SATA ports and support from Solaris.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="zicoz, post: 427610, member: 24585"] I've looked at the Drobo quite a few times, but some stuff buggs me. - They brag about the "hotswap" capabilities for growing the "raid" (I know it's not raid but for the lack of a better term I'll use it in ""), but how does this work if your D-Unit is filled to the brim of both disks and data? I can't just pull a disk out and insert another can I? What happens to the data that was on that disk then? Is all the data in the "raid" unavailable untill it's rebuilt? How long does it take? - Speed What speeds are you getting from the thing. FireWire claims what? 400MB/S, but I have never seen these speeds from a FW- unit. And the same goes for USBs 60MB/s. Then offcourse there is the price. $1300 is a bit too steep for something that holds 8 disks and can't be expanded by adding a raid-card. Personally I'm using Nexenta Core with ZFS atm, easy to set up (Zpool create Mediapool raidZ disk 1-8) and expand (zpool add Mediapool RaidZ disk 9-15) Mine is currently Currently running two RaidZs in a pool, one with 8x 1TB disks and one I belive have 6x1TB disks. Across my G-bit network I'm getting stable 60MB/s transfer speeds, and I've seen it burst as high as 78-80 MB/s The only problem is the price on raid-cards that have more than 4 SATA ports and support from Solaris. [/QUOTE]

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