drobo
My Drobo: A few months in...
Well, I've had my drobo for a while now. I really have no complaints on the hardware; it works as expected and works well. I do have issues, however.
My first issue is my own behavior. I sometimes fail to RTFM. In this case, it was the part of the manual on formatting. I simply formatted the drobo from Disk Utilities. If I had RTFM, I would have learned that the standard format was for 2 TB volumes - if you stick more available space in the system, you'd get multiple volumes. The drobo can be formatted to anticipate a volume of 16 TB, which would have made more sense to me. The drawback to this format is slower boot times, but I'm okay with that. In any case, it's simply a matter of reformatting the drobo and start over. Unfortunately, I have the older USB 2.0 drobo and offloading the data took at least a day (and some struggling to find the disk space). Now, the drobo is reformatted and I've started the process of moving all the data back! ugh! take my advice, if you get a drobo, RTFM.
