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VLIR: Mop: Drobo in it's most basic incarnation is just direct attached storage. Drobo FS I think is the NAS version. All use RAID

Posted by oblique (aka kkuphal) May 11 '12, 12:49

and are kinda expensive for just that feature which is why I ended up on the QNAP

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All these NAS cases are so expensive. I'm better off just plugging in an old PC, like you suggested. - Mop (198 lbs) May 11, 13:11 1
- Yes, I was doing that for a while but eventually I figured that the cost of the box was well worth my lack of having to mess around with maintaining a - oblique May 11, 13:17
What exactly does that do? Is it just hard drive space for multimedia content? - spamlet May 11, 12:56 8
- When my NAS was running (D-Link DNS-323), it was visible to all the computers on my network as a storage location. It also shared my printer via LAN. - Beryllium May 11, 12:57 1
  - (The only reason it's not running right now is because I'm saving up to buy a car, so I can't drop $$ on hard drives) -- nm - Beryllium May 11, 12:58
- Drobo? It's just a RAID box so it provides redundant interface for storage (lose a disk, stuff still runs) that is either direct attached or appears - oblique May 11, 12:57 5
  - no, the thingy you bought. - spamlet May 11, 12:57 4
    - Ah, it's kinda similar but it's basically a Linux server so it can provide RAID if you want (or just disk) but it provides applications on top of it - oblique May 11, 12:59 3
      - Could you put a tuner in it to have network DVR functionality? - spamlet May 11, 13:01 2
        
        i do that with my windows home server. - tRuMaN (insane, possibly) May 11, 13:07
        
        You can run MythTV on it but I wouldn't recommend it. Mostly you'd use it as the storage location - oblique May 11, 13:03

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