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#Drobo dashboard windows not seeing drive pro
The Mac Pro is getting a new 6.0TB OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 4-drive RAID enclosure (which should arrive this week).
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I'm moving it to the Mac mini where hopefully it will be okay as a filesharing drive. Its connected to my Mac Pro as a weekly clone drive, but is too slow for this task. My other Drobo is a 2nd generation USB 2.0 and FireWire 800 model, and it’s a fair bit faster than the older Drobo (but still not by any means fast). Its so abysmally slow that I'm retiring it, or perhaps making it a once-a-week clone destination for the Mac mini's new filesharing drive. The oldest is an original USB 2.0-only model and is connected to the Mac mini as a filesharing drive. PS: I'm thinking of getting a Drobo to replace my growing external drive farm that stores my pictures and iTunes "sediment". Which Drobo do you have? What sort of problems have you had with their support? Their marketing people seem to be responsive to questions. I have a Mac mini with a Drobo as my home server, and aside from the Drobo's poor performance, I really like it. The only thing WHS lacks that you might miss is native AFP support. My wife's mac and my mac use the WHS's shared library, as does my AppleTV. I run iTunes on mine and keep all of my shared videos and most of my shared music there.
#Drobo dashboard windows not seeing drive how to
Share & user management are all done through the console, not with traditional Windows tools, so other than knowing how to connect with remote desktop you don't need to know anything about Windows. In many ways it's superior to a NAS with a traditional RAID setup-you can add drives whenever you want in order to expand your pool you can remove drives to make room for new bigger drives and redundancy and duplication is all handled for you.įor admin tasks, you'll need the MS remote desktop client to connect to the box, and once there you start the WHS console. Without any Windows guests you lose the killer feature (client backups), but the storage pooling is a very good thing. I've had one since October 2007 and it works just fine. I'm open to ideas, recommendations, and/or suggestions. So what do you all do at home? What do you use? Why do you use what you use? I don't have a budget - I could buy a iMac if that made the most sense. I'm done some homework on Netgear's ReadyNAS NV+, Synology's DS209+II, Lacie's 2big Network 2. The third option is one that I'm fairly new to - NAS.
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I could forgo all the "sharing" and just free up HD space on my notebook by getting a Drobo (FireWire 800) and then moving the bulk of data from my internal HD to the Drobo. Time Machine wireless backup would be a great addition as well. Purchase a Mac mini and set it up as a "home server" and setup iTunes to share, and also keep all documents there as the primary storage (you can copy local if you want to take something out of the house for example). I'm not sure which solution would make the most sense for us. Pictures would need to remain local as I use Lightroom to browse and make any modifications. I have lots of music, movies, and documents.
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I am nearly out of HD space and I'm looking at ways to "share" the data that I keep on my HD. I have a MacBook (wife) and a MacBook Pro (me) in my house.