Last week I had a box show up at the door and it was a couple of 1 TB drives I had ordered. Then then next day the real deal showed up. This was all spurred by a hard drive scare I had about a month ago. After returning to the office I powered up the iMac and all but the 1 TB Lightroom Drive and the 1 TB Lightroom Backup dive started fine. All the images were un-accessible. Now that will get you heart pumping! It took connecting them to the laptop via the USB connection to get them started. Then two weeks later the same thing happened only this time the main Lightroom drive was dead as a doornail.
The drives are Western Digital Books and I narrowed it down to the drive controller. I took the drive apart and swapped the controllers between the two drives and the failure went with the other drive. The drives were only three weeks old so it was off to Best Buy to swap the drive. As soon as I got home and fired up the new drive I copied all the Lightroom files over to it to have a back-up and got online and ordered a 2 TB Drobo.
The folks at Data Robotics certainly got their packing lead from Apple. Here is what showed up:
This was the first part of the box and included the power supply, CD cables and instructions. Pulling this section of the packing out reveals the Drobo itself.
Very nice guys. Clean sharp and shows a level of detail that is much appreciated in a world that lacks the personal touch. I was about to be Drootized... Or was I...
It is not a RAID system but one that Data Robotics is calling BeyondRAID. I am not going to explain it here but it is supposed to make two copies of every file on two different drives while seeing the drive as a single drive. The above screen capture is with the two 1 TG drives installed. Everything looked real good until I tried to copy the contents of the Lightroom dive over to the Drobo. I started the copy process and found out it was going to take a while.
I did not have 48 hours to sit around and wait for the copy process. That little X you see at the end of the progress indicator... Don't press it! The world of Drobo came to a screeching halt. My bad! I guess I will spend some time today resetting the Drobo and seeing if I can get it back. That will no doubt be another post.
Cya... Doug
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Doug - Had the same thing happen when I first transferred my data to Drobo (~180GB). It said it was going to take a long time initially, then about 20-30 minutes in the thing just started flying. I was seeing ~50MB/s sustained from my Macbook Pro. All in all it took less than an hour. This was with 4 x 1TB drives, so yours might be a bit slower, but will end up taking nowhere near the 48 hours initially being reported.
Good to see another Drobo owner.
Jim
Jim,
Appreciate your comment. Before I got too far into the process I reset the Drobo to factory defaults and disconnected a number of my other drives to make the initial transfer of my Lightroom files.
Everything is cool now and I have been officially Drobotized.
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