DroboShare: Easy Network Backups
I’ve mentioned in the past how useful the Drobo hard drive-based data storage system is, and now DroboShare ($199) brings that same ease of use to your network-based backups.
DroboShare includes a Gigabit Ethernet interface along with USB 2.0, and connects to your Drobo ($399) so everyone on your network can backup their data.
The Drobo holds up to four hot-swappable 3.5-inch SATA hard drives, monitors each drive’s health, and lets you increase storage by changing drives on the fly. A single Drobo holds up to 16TB of data, and DroboShare lets you gang them together for up to 32TB of storage.
Jeff Gamet is a contributing editor for Design Tools Monthly, the executive summary of graphic design news. He is also the morning editor and reviews editor for The Mac Observer and iPodObserver.com, and contributing writer for Layers Magazine and Photoshop User. He writes the InBrief column for InDesign Magazine, and is the author of “The Designer’s Guide to Mac OS X,” from Peachpit Press
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i urge you if your going to buy an external drive BUY A DROBO!!! It has saved my life twice already.
Before I owend my USB Drobo I used the LaCie Big Disk… The firmware corrupted and as the two 250Gb HDs inside were formatted as one I lost everything, LaCie said they couldn’t even look at it without erasing the discs and a professional data recovery tried rewriting the firmware to no avail. If it had worked it would have cost £700.00.
Personally you can’t put a price on a drobo, i’ve had 2 disk failures (seagate & western digital 1TB) on seperate occasions. Having two disks mirrored I lost nothing and continued working. Thankfully seagate and western digital have good warranties.
I only wish they had brought out the firewire and ethernet models from the start. so the drobo share addon will be bought soon.
Data Recovery is a very costly option that is why you should always check your storage media for any signs of wear and tear.:~’
data recovery is a very costly option, always make a regular backups.,”‘
data entry jobs are very common on the internet but the paying rate is quite small .~’