Robot raid

[Gopher77]

This seem like an awesome raid solution. Any one have any experience with it?

http://www.drobo.com/

[Jeff Kilgroe]

Oooh, look... It's RAID for dummies. Actually, it looks interesting and the price doesn't seem too bad. Too bad it's only USB2. If it had an eSATA interface, I would probably be real interested.

[Jonathan L. Bowen]

Yeah no eSATA, then not that great really...

[Ace]

This is dataaa!


This has no eSataaa!

[Jonathan L. Bowen]

The point is, you can't transfer huge masses of data using USB 2.0 fast, trust me. It can be relatively fast, but it's not fast enough for a huge RAID setup, IMO.

[J. Bernard Vallon]

Anyone have experience with the Burly Raid from macgurus?

http://www.macgurus.com/productpages...iDriveFWHS.php

Firewire and Esata options. Plus a little price break on the build it yourdamnself option. It always struck me that a RAID system is pretty simple, and that your paying a lot of money for something you could put together from parts in about an hour.

[number6]

Oooh, look... It's RAID for dummies. Actually, it looks interesting and the price doesn't seem too bad. Too bad it's only USB2. If it had an eSATA interface, I would probably be real interested.

Jeff, a question comes to mind... which is fastest, eSATA300 or IEEE1394b?

[Chris Kenny]

eSATA is around three times as fast.

[number6]

Thanks Chris. Perhaps someday usb and ilink will become obsolete?

[Chris Kenny]

SATA isn't going to replace USB or FireWire. It's not really suitable for most types of devices hooked up via those interfaces. (Keyboards, mice, scanners, cameras, etc.)

There has been a slow reduction in the number of interfaces over the years (e.g. USB replaced parallel, serial and PS/2 ports). I'd expect this to eventually end with a single high-speed serial interface (probably optical) for everything from monitors to storage to networking. Might take 15 years, though.