Return-Path: Received: from relay01.pair.com ([209.68.5.15] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with SMTP id 4736497 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Wed, 06 Jun 2012 14:20:33 +0200 Received: (qmail 329 invoked from network); 6 Jun 2012 12:23:01 -0000 Received: from 71.13.6.186 (HELO ?192.168.1.6?) (71.13.6.186) by relay01.pair.com with SMTP; 6 Jun 2012 12:23:01 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 71.13.6.186 Message-ID: <4FCF4BA3.5030504@fxtech.com> Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2012 07:22:59 -0500 From: Paul Miller User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: After Effects Mail List Subject: Re: [AE] [OT] Alternatives to a Drobo References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 6/5/2012 8:27 PM, Chris Zwar wrote: > Hi, > > I bought a Drobo almost 5 years ago, and at the time there was nothing else that did what it did. There were lots of external RAIDs around but nothing else was as easily upgradable. > Just wondering if the market has changed, and if anything else is comparable to a Drobo, but perhaps faster or better in some other way? I really like the way I can swap drives and mix capacities... Chris I use a NetGear ReadyNAS Pro. Hot-swap, multiple RAID levels, runs Linux and you can install server software on it. About 1K for a dual-redundant 6TB system, about a year ago.