[Hidden-tech] experience with drobo storage?

[Tom Adams ~ Reelife Productions & Folktography]

looks like drobo <http://www.drobo.com/products/drobo.php> is the way to go
for large capacity video/storage. love to hear any of your
feedback/comments...

Regards,

Tom Adams
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On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Kevin Phillips <kevin at kpitconsulting.com>wrote:

>   ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area.
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>
>
>  The power brick often dies due to heat, it kills the capacitors in them
> and the voltage becomes noisy and low.
> You should take the drive out and mount it in a new enclosure and it should
> be OK.
> They tend to use lesser quality drives and run them hot and this kills the
> drive itself too...I don't know why people think so highly of them, look
> good but poor engineering in my humble opinion.
>
>
> Kevin Phillips
> KPIT Consulting
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>  ------------------------------
> *From:* hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net [mailto:
> hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net] *On Behalf Of *Tom Adams ~
> Reelife Productions & Folktography
> *Sent:* Thursday, February 25, 2010 11:24 PM
> *To:* Hidden-Tech Tech
> *Subject:* [Hidden-tech] lacie extreme disk error messages
>
>  *Hello,*
>
> *
> *
>
> *looks like my 1TB lacie backup "extreme disk" has finally decided to play
> with my sanity. I tried runnin' apple's disk utility to no avail. The discs
> icon shows up in the left panel but will not mount- here are the messages I
> got:*
>
> *=========*
>
> *Verify and Repair volume Time Machine _BU *
>
> Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
>
> Detected a case-sensitive catalog.
>
> Checking Extents Overflow file.
>
> Invalid leaf record count
>
> (It should be 4500 instead of 4505)
>
> Checking Catalog file.
>
>
> >>Disk Utility stopped repairing Time Machine _BU because the following
> error was encountered:
>
> Filesystem verify or repair failed.
>
>
> (It should be 4500 instead of 4505)
>
> Checking Catalog file.
>
> Invalid node structure
>
> Volume check failed.
>
> Error: Filesystem verify or repair failed.
>
> *=============*
>
> *
> *
>
> *anyone have any insight or suggestions about what I should do next. I
> know that Lacie has had problems with the "extreme disks" power cords not
> giving the units enough juice but this doesn't seem related at all.*
>
> *
> *
>
> *trying not to wig out too much...but I do happen to have a A LOT of
> important stuff on this drive. Help?*
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Tom Adams
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