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I've written about my home storage requirements before - and the inability of anyone to satisfy them with a decent, easy to use product. A flare up on the internal bloggers alias which meandered a while before morphing into a discussion about home automation and home storage got me thinking again - because my storage problem hasn't gone away - it's just grown a bit since my last rant. Interestingly, Chris Kampmeier (who I used to work for when I first moved to the US) has gone some way to building the kind of appliance I'm looking for - if I ever get time - I'd love to do something similar with Solaris / ZFS.
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Hey Rich,
We're in the same boat!! But i found this kewl little gadget a few months ago. Check out the Drobo at http://drobo.com/
Yes, its expensive, but not as expensive as a NAS. The fact that you don't have to worry about RAID and get redundancy for free is the selling point for me. I haven't bought one, for me the problem is that its USB 2.0 only. I will buy one when it has eSATA.
Posted by Declan Shanaghy on January 14, 2008 at 10:26 AM PST #
Ohhh, i just noticed they announced the DroboShare which enables sharing over GB Ethernet.
Posted by Declan Shanaghy on January 14, 2008 at 10:28 AM PST #
Declan - that does look pretty decent. I'll take a closer look when I have time / the prospect of some spare cash ;) Hmmm Gb Ethernet - that's another project.
Posted by Rich Sharples on January 17, 2008 at 07:37 AM PST #