I’ve been wanting one for a long time, and I finally got my Drobo.

It was really time. I just couldn’t fathom buying another RAID case for a couple of hard drives that I would outgrow in a month or two. The Drobo was $429 at OWC, and they offered a $50 mail-in rebate. So, I picked up one and a single 1.5TB drive. I should have gotten two drives.

The only negative about it is the copying speed. It took about 8 hours to copy 500GB. Not speedy, but everything else is aces. I currently have the 1.5TB drive in it along with 2 500GB drives and a single 25GB drive. With all that, I have just over a TB worth of usable storage. Yeah, not a lot, but I’m comfortable with that. Seeing that I’m going to use the Drobo for irreplaceable data (what data isn’t), I feel better that it keeps a backup in case of drive failure. That’s something a standard RAID won’t do.