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Drobo Trap Drobo Crap, Your Data isn't PROTECTED!

bradhusick

Active member
Folks,
One option for this is to use TWO Drobo units so that a rebuild does not leave you exposed to a single drive failure. I have one gen2 Drobo now, so if any of you want to sell me your gen2 Drobo, I'd be interested.
-Brad
 

Jack

Sr. Administrator
Staff member
Folks,
One option for this is to use TWO Drobo units so that a rebuild does not leave you exposed to a single drive failure. I have one gen2 Drobo now, so if any of you want to sell me your gen2 Drobo, I'd be interested.
-Brad
Ditto -- consider me in line right behind Brad, but only for a gen2 unit, with or without drives.
 
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DMM

Guest
I see that you have had some drobo issues and they sound a lot like mine. Could you tell me how you fixed the disk structure. My drobo has lost the ability to mount. I can see it on the drodo dashboard, but it will not mount to my computer. Most disk rescue utilities are useless, because they require a like size drive for the destination. I don't have a 2tb drive, so I'm stuck. Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thank you,
David:eek:
 
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meilicke

Guest
The zfs file system protects against bit rot (the 10^14 reference above). Currently open solaris, freebsd, and Linux (but slow) support this. Snow leopard server will support zfs read/write. Today leopard just supports read (beta code for read/write is available now).
 

bradhusick

Active member
Drobo is having a sale on two drives. Maybe we could do a joint-buy?

Sweet Deal on Two Drobos Through March 31st

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Whether it’s for your personal use or for your business, Drobo offers you peace of mind with zero management and dynamic capacity expansion.

With this Sweet Drobo Deal, you can:
• Use one Drobo for onsite storage and one for offsite backup
• Split the cost with a friend (that’s $849 per 4TB bundle!)
 

popum

New member
David,

I had the same mount problem after a brief power outage. I bought DISK WARRIOR software and that fixed everything.

If you are on a MAC, you might first try disk repair in the disk utility first.

Mike
 
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DMM

Guest
Thanks mike. I have two drobos one hooked to my mac and one to an xp pc. The mac has been flawless as a time machine backup. The xp machine was the one that was down. Last night I hooked it up to a vista pc and it had the same problem. The disk utilities would not populate the drive, so no luck there. It froze the disk utilities app and I had to reboot. That is when things got interesting. Vista remembered the disk caused the problem and ran chldsk at the root level. I saw alot of deleting and moving and reindexing and got really nervous. After ten minutes it stopped, rebooted and I had my drobo back with all the working files and pictures.Not one byte was lost. It would have been nice for drobo support to know this I talked to them once, they had me send them a log file and then never got back to me. Oh well, I guess If you want it done right you must do it yourself. I hope this post helps someone else.

David
 

fotografz

Well-known member
My experience too. Don't know what it is, but almost everybody I know that used LaCie's in the past has lost data. My local dealer stopped selling them they had so many issues. This was about 2 years ago though.

A better option IMO if you want to go with that style of box are the G-Drives, but they are relatively expensive...

Cheers,
Me too. After my past experiences, IMO, Lacie is safe only when unplugged and on the shelf ... otherwise it's a crap shoot. 2 drives were victims of sudden death syndrome, and they were not that old. I also had a Western Digital drive go with 150 gigs of data which WD could not get back ... basically it was a catastrophic train wreak inside that specific drive that happened as I was backing up the last 20 gigs onto DVDs ... but that was years ago.

Nothing is really totally safe except maybe 2 different off-site storage locations that mirror each other.
 
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