Raoul Pop

What makes it even more frustrating is that the bastard just left an insulting comment on my post, after I gave him a chance by not revealing his real name. His comment didn't make it live, but still, it shows that I was too nice. I'm still mulling it over, but I may reveal his full name and his home address, too. - Raoul Pop

If you paid by credit card, or even funded your paypal account with your credit/debit card you can dispute it through them and get your money back. Paypal does not fight credit card disputes so it should be relatively easy to get your money back. You were cheated and you need to get your money back. - Jason Shultz

Seriously, for a "new" phone to be in that condition you would have had to take it outside and run over it in your car a couple of times and then drop it in a lake or bay. Even then, it would take a minimum of a week for the phone to come out in that condition! The guy's being dishonest: I hope you get all your money back! - vicster

Paul, you don't know me, so don't make rude guesses. I'm a photographer, and I back up my photos to my Drobo. I also record old movies and cartoons (20s, 30s, 40s) from TV and store them on the Drobo. I've also digitized our library of VHS tapes and DVDs and put those on the Drobo as well. Now when my wife and I want to watch something, we just browse the Drobo and play it. - Raoul Pop

What is your total storage up to now and how much of that is used on replication. - CJPhoto

No I don't and yes it was flippant. I apologize. How does this compare to commercially available storage or pass through (ie: Netflix Roku or Vudu) for content storage and playback. - Paul W. Swansen

Note to self: need Drobo for video, audio, and porn. - flammable

CJPhoto, I have well over 5TB of storage right now. I haven't added everything up lately, but that's where it was the last time (see this http://www.raoulpop.com/2008/0...). This is available storage, not total storage, btw, which is bigger, since the Drobo has redundancy built in. Paul, not sure what you mean by commercially available storage, but as for the pass-through stuff, I'd rather have the content locally, available for playback at any time. I like Roku though, it's nice. - Raoul Pop

How much does it hold? - Shey

i desperately neeeeeeeed one of these - Chris Farrugia

Raoul, how about noise? is it noticeable? do you connect it directly to your PC or how do you browse it? - Juan Pablo González

Want. - Brad Brooks

Nice Raoul! Feel my envy. The Drobo is on my Must Buy List, currently holding steady in the 2nd position. Its looking like it may make it home around Xmas time. - Carlos Ayala

Shey, it holds as much as you want it to hold. It's only limited by the current hard drive capacities, since it can only hold 4 drives. Juan, if the Drobo functions correctly, it does make a little noise but nothing that distracts. After all, there are four hard drives in there, and they need to be cooled. I have noticed that if you get a bad unit, the fans will make more noise than usual, and may go into overdrive mode, where they rotate at faster speeds than they need to. In that case, get a replacement. - Raoul Pop

I should mention I wrote a detailed review of the Drobo last year. It's still good reading if you've got about 10 minutes: http://www.raoulpop.com/2007/1.... - Raoul Pop

Damn, and I thought I was a glutton at 2 TB available storage. - Eric

I love my drobo, one of the best purchases I made last year. I just had one of my 500GB drives die on me this past weekend. Red light flashed on the drobo and a warning box pops up. I removed the drive, went to Best Buy and bought a new 1TB drive and popped it into the drobo. Zero downtime plus now I have more storage. - Mark Anderson

I can't wait for the promised iTunes integration. I have my Drobo here now, but haven't had the time (or money) to get some harddrives. Yeah, yeah, I know... ;-( - Holger Eilhard

Had a dream about terabytes last night. - Mike Reynolds