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Adorama via eBay has the Drobo 5N 5-Bay NAS Storage Array with Gigabit Ethernet for $359.99. This is the absolute lowest price we’ve ever seen for it!
This is a good deal for someone looking to get a 5-bay redundant network-attached storage array. We have been fans of Drobo ever since we survived three hard drive failures with all our files intact!
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The 5N has been on my AMAZON wish list for months now, and they always sell their last in stock for $30 off at $449, so when I saw this deal I hopped right on it and bought the crucial 128gb m550 msata card as well. This is a steal
this is a great deal considering the drop in hard drive prices now. Does anyone have any personal experience regarding the changing of the hard drive aside from failures; like upgrading the hard drives? Thanks.
I do, on my previous generation Drobo. I swapped the 1.5TB drives that I originally had in my Drobo FS with 3.0 TB (WD Red) drives. It’s pretty seamless to upgrade capacity. Just pull out one of the drives, and the array re-builds to tolerate not having it, then put in a new drive. The only complaint is it takes a long time to rebuild the redundancy, anywhere from 12 to 36 hours.
I also have double redundancy turned on, which saved our bacon, big time…