Eckart Walther

Yahoo only paid $35 million for Flickr? That seems like a real bargain. How much did Google pay for YouTube again? - Robert Felty

Finally, a resignation letter that's not full of cliches. - niniane

The Tin Man is off to see the wizard. :) - Morton Fox

Amusing that you posted this. I just ordered one (with the network adapter). Finally someone put redundancy in an appliance without the complexity of RAID. Well, Windows Home Server did it a couple years ago, but it's Windows. I have a bunch of spare SATA disks around, so I can load it up right away. - Cyrus Lendvay

I like the 'simpler than raid, but still fault-tolerant' but part of me still likes the idea of swapping out two drives with fresh ones and putting them in a vault for an instant off-site backup. - Kevin Fox

Kevin: out of curiosity, how much data are you trying to backup? - Brian Johns

My plan is to eventually get two of them and sync between them. - Cyrus Lendvay

Brian: A 2TB photo library, acting as a fault-tolerant primary file server, as well as a periodic image off-site backup. :-) - Kevin Fox

One thing that creeped me out about the Drobo when I was looking into them several months ago was that I was under the impression that you can fill them up to the point where you lose redundancy. For example, suppose you put in a 120GB and a 250GB drive. If the 250GB drive fails you'll be able to recover at most 120GB of your data from the other drive, but I think the Drobo will let you use well over 120GB without warning. Am I wrong? - Laurence Gonsalves

(The other thing that stopped me from going with a Drobo was the USB-only connectivity. I wanted NAS so that I could at least keep my backups in a different room from the hard drives they'd be backing up. DroboShare has at least corrected that problem.) - Laurence Gonsalves

The CEO/Founder of the company is a good friend of mine (was at my wedding and was once my boss). I'll see if I can get you guys a discount, code, etc. - Louis Gray

Hi Louis. A code would be appreciated. Thnx! - Michael Carter

There are already evangelist codes that get you $25 off. I hope the discount that Louis mentions is going to be a little better than that. - Raoul Pop

Crikey, it looks like a microwave! - Sally Church via Alert Thingy

Hey guys. Just got a note from Geoff (Drobo founder). He says, "Drobo does _not_ allow you to fill the product up to a point where it's no longer redundant. You are always protected." - Louis Gray

mine works well, but little shaky with Time Machine - Drew Lucas

Louis: that's good to know. I stand corrected. I vaguely remember the "drobulator" giving me the wrong impression. I wonder if the labels changed since then, or if I'd just misread it. - Laurence Gonsalves

Just got word that the Drobo has been delivered. I can't wait to try it out. - Cyrus Lendvay

I think the Drobo is a good product but for much the same price I bought the much more powerful HP Media Server ( http://www.hp.com/united-state... ) even in a Mac/Windows household it is universally useful - it has redundant storage plus it can run server applications without anyother machine being on e.g. squeezebox for my music slim devices, remote access to files etc. - Martin Taylor

disks are the new tape - David Vasileff

SSD is the new disk. So what's the new RAM? - Kevin Fox

On-chip memory - Amir Gharaat

They sent me this today: Some bundles: http://www.drobo.com/offer/ No code ahead of the evangelist notes seen above though (yet). - Louis Gray

I want one of those, ANYONE want to give me one let me know!! - Paul