Drobo - safe storage - NOT
I bought a Drobo FS as you fill it full of hard drives and it creates a raid array so your data is pretty safe. Furthermore you can swap existing drives with bigger ones and upgrade your storage space on demand.

Unfortunately the first unit reported a couple of drive faults and then it failed completely after about two weeks so my confidence in them took a nose dive.

Anyway, drobo swapped it out with a new unit, popped drives back in and my data was there still - huzzah!

Then followed two weeks of the unit randomly reporting dead drives.

Basically if you put a cup of tea on the desk, burped, farted, coughed or even imagined playing a set of drums the drobo would kick up a drive failure.

I swear it even once errored when the next door neighbours yellow pages was delivered.

All because they had used cheap,sloppy plastic clips to secure the drives. Fools.
( Signify, Sat 1 Oct 2011, 7:54, 3 replies)

i am glad that i have literally no idea what you're on about.

( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Sat 1 Oct 2011, 9:52, closed)

'I bought a piece of consumer electronics'.

( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Sat 1 Oct 2011, 10:01, closed)

On your wage?!
I don't believe you
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Sat 1 Oct 2011, 16:10, closed)